21st place, santa monica
so, off we went to see vivian. she welcomed us into her home and was sound as a pound. it's funny when you meet someone you've heard so much about, *and* seen on video...
she was great to talk to and offers some fine bits of advice. i said i'd like to be a bit of a sponge on this trip and all's going to plan so far.
we sat and chatted for a few hours in the morning, then went out to lunch to the souplantation - they have big portions, it explains a lot.
i got some good ideas about working with kids and how giving them and parents a goal of fluency isn't really the best idea. especially if it's the unobtainable. everyone's just being set up for disappointment in that case.
we came back later on in the evening for the weekly group and met loads of cool stuttering folk like ourselves. myself and the prof were welcomed in and people just stuttered along with us. the prof had quite a magnificent bout of stuttering. but it was fine and perhaps what he needed. i got to talk about the dual role conflict i have at times of being a stuttering SLT - it was reassuring to hear that joe sheehan went through the same thing and he stuttered his way through the problem.
there were some good lines people came out with which i wrote down - but i left my notepad in the car. eep. from memory though...
'it's not that i don't let my stuttering bother me now, it's just that i don't let it bother me as much' - which is something i've been working on for a while. it's always going to be there and bother me, but i do need to let it go sometimes. and then...
'quality of content' vs 'quality of delivery' - some people are not going to like what you have to say regardless of how you say it. it's not to do with your stuttering, so you can't hang all your failures in life on it, but that is sometimes forgotten.
and finally, i got to play their piano that joe played.
cool.
she was great to talk to and offers some fine bits of advice. i said i'd like to be a bit of a sponge on this trip and all's going to plan so far.
we sat and chatted for a few hours in the morning, then went out to lunch to the souplantation - they have big portions, it explains a lot.
i got some good ideas about working with kids and how giving them and parents a goal of fluency isn't really the best idea. especially if it's the unobtainable. everyone's just being set up for disappointment in that case.
we came back later on in the evening for the weekly group and met loads of cool stuttering folk like ourselves. myself and the prof were welcomed in and people just stuttered along with us. the prof had quite a magnificent bout of stuttering. but it was fine and perhaps what he needed. i got to talk about the dual role conflict i have at times of being a stuttering SLT - it was reassuring to hear that joe sheehan went through the same thing and he stuttered his way through the problem.
there were some good lines people came out with which i wrote down - but i left my notepad in the car. eep. from memory though...
'it's not that i don't let my stuttering bother me now, it's just that i don't let it bother me as much' - which is something i've been working on for a while. it's always going to be there and bother me, but i do need to let it go sometimes. and then...
'quality of content' vs 'quality of delivery' - some people are not going to like what you have to say regardless of how you say it. it's not to do with your stuttering, so you can't hang all your failures in life on it, but that is sometimes forgotten.
and finally, i got to play their piano that joe played.
cool.
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