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ACQ W E B W O R D S
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Stuttering: Saints, Songs and Sites
Caroline Bowen
Born in Jonswil
Switzerland in about 850, son of a distinguished family, Notker
Balbulus, monk, musician, organist, librarian, teacher, poet and
patron saint of children who stutter, was educated at a convent in
St Gall founded by Irish missionaries, died in 912, and was
beatified in 1512. Balbulus means "the little stutterer"...
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Fluency and Fluency Disorders on the Web
Discussion forums and web sites
Judith Maginnis Kuster and Caroline Bowen
The two primary features of the
Internet are discussion forums and web sites. Each holds many
treasures for professionals interested in fluency and fluency
disorders. In this article we provide an overview of both, and how
to access them. We broach some important considerations for
professionals, in terms of their own Internet use, and in terms of
the guidance they might provide to consumers of speech therapy
services when helping them to understand the problems and potential
value of Internet information about stuttering...
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Lionel Logue
1880 - 1953
Pioneer Speech Therapist
Caroline Bowen
...Encouraged by his wife
Elizabeth (1900-2002), the then Duchess of York, the Duke of York,
later to become George VI (reigning from1936 to1952) consulted Logue
about his stutter in 1926...
Online
Conferences
A new way to reach out to the world
Judith Maginnis Kuster
Stuttering is a much misunderstood speech
disorder, affecting 1% of the world’s population, or 60 million
children, teenagers, and adults. The Internet provides an important
meeting point where professionals can share information and provide
support to people who stutter (PWS), and their families. It also
offers a means for students to learn and for practicing clinicians
to update their information and skills in the area of stuttering...
(published in ACQ, June 2002)
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Stuttering
What can be done about it?
Caroline Bowen
The realisation that a child
is struggling to speak fluently is an alarming and unexpected
experience for many parents. But for parents who remember stuttering
themselves as children (and those for whom the problem persists)
recognising that their own child is stuttering is something that
they have probably anticipated having to deal with one day...
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