Presenting and networking at events can be daunting for researchers with a stammer or other speech disability. Here’s how colleagues can support them.
“As a scientist and a clinician who stutter, we believe if we want to confront this long-ignored condition, we should start in our scientific and medical communities,” they wrote. “We urge scientists who stutter and clinicians who stutter in every career stage … to give more seminars and conference talks and serve as a role model to show others who are experiencing the same disorder so that becoming a scientist or a physician should not be impeded.
For me, I have an easier time speaking in front of groups, as opposed to one-on-one, because of the nature of the back and forth. It wasn’t always like that, and I was petrified to speak in public. I have been told on numerous occasions by well-intentioned colleagues that they’re impressed if I don’t stutter a lot during a talk.
Conferences are inherently loud, stressful, chaotic places. Conference venues that amplify these characteristics — by crowding expo halls, making people have to shout their message to each other or generally devaluing anything other than the keynote speech — can feel disheartening. Conferences that value more than just talks are pretty cool. By this I mean ones that give travel support to poster presenters, not just those who give talks. These conferences build decent poster halls, and they don’t encourage meals during poster sessions.
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