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Post-block correction (cancellation): how Roger Federer can help you to stop stuttering

noreply@blogger.com (Laurent L.) — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:28:00 +0000

In a previous post “What do you do when you stutter? Understanding your blocks”, I presented Malcolm Fraser’s advice on understanding, analyzing and correcting your blocks to help you realize what you are doing when you stutter and discover what you need to do to avoid blocking.

Once you have done this preliminary work, you can begin to use specific techniques to correct your blocks. The first of these techniques is called cancellation. According to Malcolm Fraser, this is probably one of the best and simplest techniques that you can adopt to reduce your stuttering. It isn’t complicated but it requires you to confront your stutter, which means accepting it.

Based on a theory of Charles Van Riper, it has been taken up and taught by numerous therapists. To summarize, post-block correction works like this: After having stuttered over a word, you stop for a moment to release the tension and give yourself the time to think about what you did wrong, what caused your stutter and what you need to change to avoid the blockage. Then you repeat the word calmly, slowly and quietly, stretching out the sounds, exaggerating the articulation and correcting what you did wrongly when you stuttered.

For example, if you have blocked on the ‘P’ of ‘Paris’ because your lips were pressed tightly together refusing to open to let the air and sound escape, invert your action by hardly pressing your lips together at all. By doing this slowly and taking things one at a time, you should manage to release the tension and allow the little bubble of air in your mouth to half-open your lips: “Paaariiis”. (It shouldn’t be too difficult. Whenever I am travelling and I say to an English speaker that I live in Paris, he automatically comes out with a brilliant post-block correction: “Oh! Paaaariiis! So looovelyyy. »)

Taking a break after the blockage is very important because it allows you to calm yourself down and gives you the time to analyze what happened and see what you should do. During the break, try to relax the tension in your voice mechanism, particularly in your throat. Feel your tongue resting loosely in your mouth. Let your lower jaw drop open with your lips relaxed as if you were sleeping with your mouth open. The key is to feel the tension disappear at the same time as your breathing returns to its normal rhythm. Prolonging the sound will help you to maintain the flow of air and to slide into the next sound more easily.

Speaking slowly should be limited to the word on which you have stuttered. You shouldn’t talk like that all the time. You need to concentrate on your sensations rather than on the sound. Mime the movement of your lips and tongue silently or think your way through the process… Replace the tension by the sensuous feeling of carefully constructing the word or syllable.

Do not worry about other people’s reactions. It will only take a few seconds and undoubtedly much less time than if you were to bang your head against the brick wall of stuttering. This is a way of retaking control and setting off again from a good base.

If you observe carefully, this is what people who don’t stutter do when they really stumble over a word. Personally, I think that this technique has several advantages.

It enables you to steady yourself in the middle of your sentence and take a break, by which I mean ‘relax and start again calmly’.
It ‘reprograms’ you. The audible signs of stuttering are mainly behaviors you have picked up that have progressively become instinctive. The problem is that these instincts are bad. You use force, increasing the tension at just the point where you should be doing the opposite. By recognizing what you did and what you should have done instead and by correcting yourself you will adopt this ‘correct’ way of speaking. Little by little, it will become automatic.
It will make you confident again. By repeating the word correctly you will gradually become convinced that you can pronounce it without blocking. The consequent correct pronunciation will make you forget that you stutter on the word. Remember, ‘cancellation = deletion’.
It can help you to rediscover the pleasure of speaking, the satisfaction of forming a word. You are no longer a fighter, but a sculptor instead.

Actually, when you think about it, ‘post-correction’ has nothing artificial or surprising about it. In fact, as the following example hints, it is a common strategy in many areas.
Let’s take the case of a tennis player who hits the ball badly (must be a French player… yes I know I’m not very patriotic). Generally, he has two possible reactions. Firstly, he could put his head in his hands, howl with rage and smash his racket on the ground. Hmm… Or alternatively, he may react in a slightly more constructive way. In which case he would pick up the ball and reproduce the stroke that he had just messed up, but more slowly and smoothly by breaking it up into its different elements and exaggerating the start and the end of the gesture so that it comes out right.

If you have ever watched a tennis match you will surely have already seen a player do this. It is exactly what is meant by ‘post-block correction’. The player thinks back, recalls the correct technique and then puts it into action to ‘rub out’ his failure so that he can reproduce the stroke correctly the next time round.

Once you have mastered this technique you will be able to use it when you block (pull-out) or before a block (preparatory set). I will write about this in a forthcoming article. In the meantime, if you find the idea interesting, you can start by practicing on your own (reading out loud), then with a friend and then by calling a Freephone number. And if you every have a flicker of doubt in this re-learning process, tell yourself that you are the Roger Federer of stuttering!

How do you stutter ? Understanding your blocks

noreply@blogger.com (Laurent L.) — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 15:08:00 +0000

For a long time I thought of my stuttering as some mysterious being, an animal which interfered and took control of my speech, blocking my words. I had no control over this ‘alien’. It had a life of its own and I couldn’t get rid of. It was a monster which might wake up or stay asleep without me being able to do anything about it. And then one day I came across something written by Dr Johnson: “Stuttering is not something that happens to me. It is something that I do”. It was a straightforward way of formulating a simple truth: the person who presses his lips tightly together, who blocks the air in his larynx, who contracts his abdominal muscles… is me. It isn’t a little elf or an extraterrestrial being that has taken control of my body. And if I stutter sometimes, it isn’t because I don’t know how to talk; I can talk very well sometimes. It is just that, on other occasions, I may lose control and position my lips wrongly or use them inappropriately. The same goes for my tongue and my diaphragm. The result is a block or a repetition.

Being aware of this is of primary importance. Why? Because when you have identified how you are producing your blocks you will be able to apply techniques to correct them. You will be able to, as it were, ‘reprogram’ yourself and replace these inappropriate behaviors with others which are more efficient. If you omit this step, you can try to learn how to speak differently using any therapy you like – counting on your fingers, breathing differently, singing like Julie Andrews in the ‘Sound of Music’ or modifying your speaking rate – it will all be in vain. In reality, as soon as you are in a highly stressful situation the instinct acquired over the years, the one that so effectively stops the words coming out, will be irresistible and will take over. You may find that psychological therapy will help you to master your instinctive reactions but in the meantime you can learn to understand your reactions more thoroughly so that you can correct them better. So you need to try to identify what you do when you stutter.

Van Riper, who stuttered severely himself, became a speech therapist and a pioneer in the modern treatment of stuttering. He put it like this: “A person who stutters needs to learn what he is doing when he is confronted with a word he fears or a stressful situation.”

This need to analyze your stuttering and blocks is very well explained in Self Help for the Stutterer by Malcolm Fraser. I have summarized below the chapter that is dedicated to this theme, so that you can understand how to proceed.

Fraser uses a concrete example: pronouncing the name Peter. Let’s assume that you have a problem getting out the ‘P’ and continuing with the sound which follows. The ‘P’ sound is a voiceless bilabial stop. This type of sound is produced by putting two lips together (hence the ‘bilabial’) and creating a little pocket of pressurized air which you ‘stop’ and then release suddenly by opening your lips. Go on, test it out… Done? Good. Now, stand in front of a mirror and stutter or block on the ‘P’ emphasizing it by stressing it as much as possible. Then do it again more slowly trying to understand how you are producing the blockage. What are your lips doing? And your jaw, your abdominal muscles? You will undoubtedly have been able to identify a significant amount of tension. Where was it?

Perhaps your lips and your jaw were trembling, repeating the ‘P’ like a machinegun. Perhaps you were pressing your lips so tightly together that you couldn’t separate them to let the air pass through and create the sound.

Now, smile nicely in front of the mirror and say the ‘P’ sound very slowly and calmly without stuttering. Feel the difference.

Let’s work on the basis that your block came from too much tension in your lips which refused to separate and let the air out. What might you be able to do to change this habit? Well, let me reassure you, the answer is simple; no need to rack your brains. You simply have to do everything the opposite way round. In this case reduce the tension.
To do this, you relax your lips and then bring them just together, with very little force so you can create a little air pressure behind them and the explosion of the ‘P’ sound. This is called ‘light contact’. It’s a bit like how you would act if you wanted to kiss a sleeping child very softly on the cheek (what a nice comparison, though I say it myself). In order to produce this ‘light contact’ you need to control your lip muscles so that your lips hardly touch, letting the air pass freely between them. Concentrate on feeling the movement of your lips as they come together and then pull apart to bring out the ‘P’ before going on to the next sound.

The ‘P’ is only an example. You can try with other sounds you find problematic. The sound of the letter ‘B’, for example, is very close to that of the ‘P’. The aim is to realize that you can say these sounds very calmly and without forcing. As you will see, for most sounds the corrections are very simple. You will soon recognize that it is possible to ‘bring out’ a dreaded sound without forcing madly, without using fillers, without clearing your throat or I don’t know what else. The more you undertake this kind of analysis the sooner you will realize that you can stop a stutter without struggling like a monkey trapped in a net. Once you have dissected your blocks and detected your errors and where your actions are interfering, you will be ready to take on board the techniques needed to eliminate these blocks. That’s a subject I will get onto in other articles.

You can download Malcom Fraser’s book here for free.

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Stuttering is just one part of my personality

noreply@blogger.com (Laurent L.) — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 13:47:00 +0000

Stuttering is a part of us; it is a part of our identity… but only a part. We are not stutterers and only stutterers, and that is undoubtedly one of the biggest mistakes we make: we are obsessed by our stuttering to the extent that nothing else gets a look-in. It hides the rest of our unique personal value.

Many people prefer to use the term ‘person who stutters’ rather than ‘stutterer’ to emphasize that there is more to us than stuttering, that our identity is not limited to that.

I work in a bank. One day I was lucky enough to have an interview with the managing director. Faithful to my resolution to talk about it, I explained to him the impact my stutter had had on my career choices. He replied:
- Laurent, for me your stuttering has never been a problem, even when it was more noticeable than it is now. It is more a problem for you than for other people. More accurately it is not a problem, merely a trait. Your name is Laurent, you have green eyes and you stutter. I even think stuttering can be a strength.
- Woah, hold on there, boss. In two minutes you have summarized something it has taken me 25 years to understand.
- That’s why I’m the boss.

To summarize, as it grows, acceptance of your difference will progressively diffuse its benefits throughout your being and transform your relationship with the world. Yes, nothing less! And do you know why? Because, by accepting, you will become reconciled with yourself. By accepting, you will forgive yourself, you will give yourself the love and reassurance necessary for your peace of mind and self-confidence.

When you were angry and in denial, you abandoned yourself to shame, dismay and the rage that stopped you from moving forward and having clear ideas. “What have I done to deserve this?” “Why do I stutter sometimes and not others?” “Why doesn’t it go away?” Denial is the reaction of a child who stamps his feet and curls up on the ground.

Imagine that you fall ill. Your path to recovery depends on your attitude. You could complain about the pain or that you feel weak, asking yourself where on earth you could have caught that thing or from whom. Or you could go to a physician, look for useful advice on the Internet, take measures to avoid it happening again. You see the difference. You accept that you are ill. You are not angry, bitter or resentful, but that doesn’t mean you are going to do nothing to help yourself get better.

Through acceptance, you get rid of your useless feelings of bitterness and anger which consume your attention and your energy. The time you spend in a temper or feeling sorry for yourself because of your blasted stutter is time wasted. Acceptance is proof of maturity; you can restart from a solid base in a positive frame of mind.

John Steggles, an Australian blogger (Stuttering Jack), has written a superb reply to a young girl who despaired of ever overcoming her stutter.

Firstly, what you must do is accept what is. You will never be able to change until you first deeply and completely accept the situation, and learn to fully love yourself as you are. Take full responsibility for your situation. You are not a victim to be washed around by the tides of life. It’s within your power to change, and the answers for YOU are all out there to be discovered. You just have to seek them out, and it will be the journey, not the destination, that will nourish your soul. Love yourself and love everyone you speak to, as this alone, will help wash away the fear of communicating with others.

Acceptance is essential because it replaces the anger, frustration and guilt in your heart with peace, mellowness and serenity. So, who do you think will be the best companions to take with you on the road to communicating freely?

Welcome !

noreply@blogger.com (Laurent L.) — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 09:09:00 +0000

I am a French person who stutters and my book has just been translated and published in English Language. I created this website to welcome my English speaking readers and give them information about me and my journey.

In 2009, I created my French blog to share advices and inspiring stories about stuttering (www.goodbye-begaiement.fr). Since I am living a wonderful adventure! When I posted that first article on my blog on 18 May 2009, I didn’t think that it would change my life as radically as it has. That it would lead to writing more than 160 articles, and translating two American books into French ('Advice to those who stutter' and 'Sometimes, I just stutter').

I have been invited to talk in public about my experience of stuttering. I have participated in radio programs, and have been interviewed by a journalist with a camera stuck in front of my nose. I have been invited all over France, and to Switzerland, Belgium and even Canada.

There have been hundreds of encounters. And I have had the opportunity to link with other people who stutter from all over the world. And some of those people have come to mean a lot to me.

After having taken a great deal from me, stuttering has given me a great deal back. In the end, I have managed to transform my difference into a positive experience which has had repercussions on all aspects of my family life, my social life and my professional life. The result is that I now have a completely different way of approaching life; with the certainty that everything is possible, each adventure begins with the first step, every door opened reveals a new horizon and the only limits are the ones we set ourselves.

I hope that you too will have delightful encounters and make great discoveries. That the days and years to come will be marked by the urge to try new things, the courage to get going, the strength to persevere and the joy of letting yourself go!

Yes, let’s get going. Adventure is just round the corner!

ISAD 2017 Be the kind of stutterer you would like to meet

noreply@blogger.com (Laurent L.) — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 06:25:00 +0000

International Stuttering Awareness Day, ISAD, (October 22) began in 1998, spear-headed by Michael Sugarman, Oakland, California. ISAD recognizes the growing alliance between speech-language professionals and consumers, who are learning from each other and working together to share, give support, and educate one another and the general public on the impact that stuttering has on individuals’ lives. Online conferences, organized by Judy Kuster, have been an integral part of International Stuttering Awareness Day since its inception.

The conference is designed for People Who Stutter (PWS), their families and employers, the professionals who work with them, students in training and their instructors, but of course anyone with an interest in stuttering and the lives of PWS are welcome to join in.

The 2017 theme is ‘A World That Understands Stuttering’.

You will find on this link my contribution to the 2017 online conference.

Thanks !

noreply@blogger.com (Laurent L.) — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 17:13:00 +0000

The Stuttering Foundation published an article about the 25 things I wish I had known about stuttering (which became 21 for the book because some were very connected :-)). They even made a poster of it !

Here is the link to the article

My book "21 things I wish I had known about stuttering"

noreply@blogger.com (Laurent L.) — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000

I started stuttering when I was six. My parents went to see a physician, who said “he’ll grow out of it”. But I didn’t grow out of it. I grew up with it. My mother moved heaven and earth searching for a solution, and so I tried many things: speech therapy, medicines, acupuncture, homeopathy, and more. Once, utterly desperate, she even took me to a healer! I remember a friendly little man with a pot belly wearing a three-piece suit. He swung his pendulum in front of my stomach, placing his hand on my throat to transfer the waves of positive energy. It makes me smile now, but it shows the extent of my parents’ hopeless confusion. As a young man, I continued this desperate search, going on a course given by a man who had cured his stuttering, trying sophrology and osteopathy. At that time you were left to your own devices. In the first place, it was difficult to find information on stuttering. Then, when you’d found it, it wasn’t always pitched at the right level; often it was intended for professionals.

So I continued with my life, stuttering, letting it dictate my choices: what I ordered in restaurants, my studies, my profession. At work, group discussions were a real ordeal, as was the telephone. I preferred walking along the corridors and talking face-to-face, rather than calling someone on the phone. I developed a real phobia about stuttering. I remember breaking down one day in my boss’ office when he asked me to stand in for him and make a speech in public.

By the time I was forty, I thought I would never find a solution; that I would continue to panic whenever I needed to make a phone call, to introduce myself or to speak in public. And then I was saved by the Internet.

Still thinking myself alone, misunderstood and with no hope of a cure, I suddenly discovered the stories of people who had gone through the same trials and tribulations as I had. And they explained how they had solved their problem! I was ecstatic. Here were people like me giving me what I needed: information, hope and a user manual. I had discovered a hidden world; I wanted to reveal its existence to French speakers.

So that’s what gave me the idea of creating the blog www.goodbye-begaiement.fr in 2009. I wanted to share my experience and above all others’ experiences, bring together useful information, and help other stutterers to save the time I had wasted.

Originally my aim was to write the kind of blog that I would have wanted to read: a colorful and light-hearted mishmash of constructive stories: I didn’t want it to be taken too seriously.

At first, I have to admit, I was a little afraid of the reactions of the french ‘VIPs’ of the world of stuttering. The only things I had to offer were my sincerity, my own story – which was undoubtedly interesting but not necessarily typical – and the fruits of my documentary research. My surprise at the feedback was as big as my fears had been.

From the beginning my fellow bloggers, Olivier and Alexandre, reacted by sharing my first articles. Daniel, the webmaster of Parole Bégaiement, a French association which gives a voice to those who stutter, also quickly put a link on their site.

Then, I was almost incredulous when I saw eminent specialists such as François Le Huche and Marie Claude Monfrais-Pfauwadel making comments on my articles, fueling my themes and shedding light on the subject with their experience and scientific rigor.

Encouraged by these first reactions, I started looking at Anglophone resources. I made contact with the Stuttering Foundation of America, without great hope that they would be interested in me. I felt like an amateur diver applying to join Jacques Cousteau’s team on its next underwater expedition. And there, too, I was surprised. It was the president, Jane Fraser, who kindly replied in person and in French (she has lived in France). She thanked me (thanked me!) for my first translations, and encouraged me to continue by giving me the translation rights for two American bestsellers published by her Foundation. You can’t imagine how much that motivated me.

I continued to make contact with numerous former stutterers and therapists who were working together to bring stuttering out of the closet. I shared new teachings and scientific discoveries. Each time, I was welcomed with open arms. These interactions meant a great deal to me.

Since I created the blog, I have read a great deal, discussed, written, and above all passed on the stories of stutterers who have solved their problem. I have been able to show that solutions exist and, above all, that there are people who have liberated themselves from their stuttering. This is a long way from the depressing resignation of sayings like: ‘once a stutterer always a stutterer’ and ‘every stutter is unique’.

Yes, stuttering is a complex subject, but through my reading, through all the discussions I have had, and in the translations I have done, I have discovered there are points which keep coming up again and again. I have also identified what stutterers with positive states of mind and winning attitudes have in common.

For seven years now, I have been sharing my revelations and enthusiasms on the blog. I have often been asked to write it all down in a book. I am both proud and happy to say that you have that book in front of you. In it, you will find many valuable views and suggestions expressed by numerous stutterers from around the world.

So in this book, you have everything I would have liked to have known at the age of twenty.

Laurent

Here is the link to discover "21 things I wish I had known about stuttering" on Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon Canada

Also available on Kindle (ebook) here !

My French blog

noreply@blogger.com (Laurent L.) — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 06:31:00 +0000

I created my blog "Goobye Bégaiement !" in 2009 and I wrote more than 160 articles. This is a marvelous adventure.

If you speak French (or would like to speak it :-)), have a look HERE.

ISAD 2015 The Wonderful World of Stuttering

noreply@blogger.com (Laurent L.) — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:36:00 +0000

If you stutter and are looking for answers, you have many reasons to be optimistic.

In recent years, the available information on stuttering has experienced a real upheaval. It has grown from a handful of books by specialists to thousands of texts or exchanges available within a few clicks. This expansion of information has triggered a major shift in the approach to the topic and the establishment of a real dynamic progression.

A few years ago, when I started to browse the french Web, I expected a lot from the Internet growth. Very high were my expectations. Very deep was my disappointment. I found only stutterer’s testimonies on their suffering along a difficult path, two or three methods of former stutterers’ available in exchange for a big check, and heated and sterile debates between supporters of a particular therapy. Lost among commercial proposals and depressing testimonies; my disappointment and frustration were enormous. It seemed that nothing had changed since my childhood and adolescence, except that in addition, to paraphrase Shakespeare, “something was rotten in the state of stuttering”.

Then I discovered Canadian and U.S. sites which offered interesting texts for people who stutter (PWS) and published testimonies of personal paths towards recovery. I read Jack Menear’s, Alan Badmington’s, John Harrison’s and Walt Manning’s stuttering stories and I said to myself : “Hey, that’s me!” Then I read their paths toward recovery and I said : “Hey, that could be me!” Through them, I discovered that there were also former stutterers or therapists, who work together to raise awareness of what stuttering is and share experiences or new scientific discoveries related to this complex subject.

Yes, there were people who volunteered their services to help people who stutter and who shared their information without a thought of financial reward!

Yes, things were moving in the world of stuttering and some people even used the word “hope!”

Yes, it was possible to have peaceful and constructive exchanges on the subject!

I was energized and it gave me the desire and energy to create my own blog to join in this positive movement and relay this dynamic change. I chose the name “Goodbye Begaiement” (Goodbye Stuttering) and I wrote my first posts about what I learned and experienced. At first I was a little afraid, I confess, of the reaction of the French Internet world of stuttering. I had nothing else to offer other than my goodwill, my maybe interesting but not universal story and the fruit of my searches. My surprise was immense. First, the two major french weblogers in this field, Olivier and Alexandre, reacted immediately by relaying my first articles on their blog. I foolishly feared they would see me as a “competitor” and have a little fear of this new actor. Rather it was a friendly and enthusiastic response that greeted me and to them I owe the beginning of my blog traffic, and to Daniel Poussin (the webmaster of Association Parole Bégaiement) who quickly put a link on the association’s website.

Then, I almost couldn’t believe it when I saw leading French experts such as Francois Le Huche and Marie-Claude Monfrais-Pfauwadel leave comments on my posts, bringing to my writings their enlightening experience and scientific rigor.

Encouraged by these initial reactions, I turned to America and I contacted the “Stuttering Foundation of America” (SFA), without much hope of drawing their interest. I felt a bit like an amateur diver offering to work with Jacques Cousteau’s team in their next expedition… And again, surprise! Jane Fraser (the president) replied in person with kindness and in French (she used to live in France)! She thanked me (unbelievable!) for my translations and encouraged me to continue. You can not imagine the energy this answer gave me!

Since, with Jane’s agreement, I translated in french Eelco de Geus’ book “Sometimes I stutter” (Des fois, je bégaie) and I made a paper edition of the book. That lead me to discover the world of printing and edition. What a exciting undertaking! The miracle continues.

When I contacted Richard Parent, the translator of John Harrison’s book “Redefining Stuttering”, the response was again immediate. He sent me his latest translations in PDF format and said he would put me in his mailing list. I think I can say we became friends and he’s always a great support for me. He was my partner to translate in French my second book “Conseils pour ceux qui bégaient” (Advice for those wo stutter). I was then contacted by the French stuttering association “Association Parole Bégaiment” to share my testimony during meetings and conferences and I am now in charge of press relations for this association. Now I speak before a large audience, in front of a microphone for the radio or by phone with journalists: so many things I thought impossible just few years ago!

Yes, there are PWS and non-PWS, professionals and amateurs, who study stuttering, and who unreservedly share their knowledge with open arms and welcome all people with goodwill. This state of mind, constructive and collaborative, reminds me of astronomy. You have on one side astrophysicists and distinguished professionals and on the other devotees and amateurs, whose contribution is also significant because thousands of eyes scanning the sky with passion can discover new phenomena or stars. The official scientists did not look at them with condescension but saw them as helpful partners who contribute to a better understanding of the universe. The universe of stuttering is perhaps not infinite but it is complex. That is why this positive trend that I mentioned is so reassuring. This openness, generosity, and acceptance of SLPs to share and work with the amateurs is the best things that can happen to us. That is also why it is so important that readers leave comments on posts to add their testimony. Some forums and weblogs in the world became references, a wealth of information consulted by specialists and students in speech therapy. Thanks to them, these students probably know ten times more about stuttering and life of a PWS than students some years ago.

The web has become a huge knowledge base of stuttering, a kitchen where people with a cooking hobby and “grands chefs” come together, tasting each dish, making suggestions and thus perfecting recipes. And you have the right not to try everything, you have the right to not like certain dishes. Feel free to compose your menu card by choosing what seems good for you!

So, snoop, browse, be curious, I am sure you will fall inevitably on testimonies and advice that will help you move forward. If you want to get started and make a contribution, please do so! You can not imagine how rewarding it is and how good it feels to be involved in such a beautiful adventure. There is still much to learn but there are also many more unexplored places for the Galileos, Marco Polos and Neil Armstrongs of stuttering!

So spread the word!

Here is the link to the original article on ISAD website