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First of all, that's fucking illegal. They can't discriminate based on your stutter. If you have that shit in writing, you could honestly sue. I'm not well versed on the law but I'm sure someone here ...

If the minimum requirement is too high, you should ask for an accomodation with the ETS team. For my university, they had an overall cutoff and not individual ones. So even though I scored below 20 in...

Crazy idea, can you ask for a text to speech accommodation for the TOFEL? Testing centers implement all varieties of accommodations…...

I know nothing about it but they can’t penalize you for something you can’t control. If they do, get a lawyer (they don’t even have to be good because it’s an easy win)....

How do you succeed TOFEL oral test when applying grad school

How do you succeed TOFEL oral test when applying grad school I’m considering to apply for several graduate and PhD programs overseas. HOWEVER, most programs require a minimum score of tofel oral test,...

I’ve had my fair share of presentations and they all went badly. So now I have ADA accommodations for presentations. I only present in front of the instructor or do an alternative assignment. I have t...

Rejection for a valid reason is a part of life - like failing to do job duties. Getting rejected for a disability (that won't affect job duties in any way) is illegal....

It shouldn’t be this way. Self disclose at the beginning of the interview. At least give yourself a chance. What’s the point of letting them know beforehand. Along the lines of .. “ you may notice tha...

i don’t see what does having a stutter has to do with working a non talkative job. At this point we might as well claim benefits from our disability...

They promote acceptance because they don’t know how to beat it. They also promote to stutter proudly which doesn’t make sense. What stutterer wants to embarrass themselve proudly? The NSA does silence...

Which part? Fighting for new research that I think is silenced or the acceptance part I feel is creating the silence. I understood the fuck you part. And that’s ok. It’s an emotional path we walk so ...

I think things are being misunderstood, not looking for a cure but like you are saying you are keeping the door open for future advancement in technology. We are saying it’s TIME FOR US TO PUSH those ...

Yes, all of this!! The silence is on the national stage. Our institutes and associations need to step outside the comfort zone and into every spotlight they can find. Me calling individual research un...

Thank you and there are some great tools out there to help. My main concern is the lack of advocacy around stuttering research on a national level. I really wasn’t clear on that in my post. I feel ou...

Thank you, I try my best walking this line as a supportive parent. And I’m still trying to learn why we are so far behind in interventional research. I feel it’s a cumulation of many things. But I kno...

YES!!! I’m so disheartened by the lack of advocacy around stuttering in the research arena. It will take speakers from our associations presenting at conferences around neuroscience, genetics, mental ...

I’m ok with managed and reduced. But we very few, and very old therapies to manage and reduce. They seem to fail a lot of people in our community. Future biotechnology is exactly what I’m talking abo...

Here is a portion of the email. So embarrassing to say 11 agencies to support and represent stutters didn’t even answer the phone and went to vm. I think that’s the moment I realized there was a big p...

Thank you so much for the kind words and understanding. To clarify, everyone from her friends, SLP’s, NSA and everyone else has been supportive and kind and speech therapy has always been provided. I...

The thing that stood out to me was your statement about “we aren’t swimming in solutions” Is acceptance silencing the solutions. There are 16-60 clinics trials, depending on age, recruiting in the USA...