Essay On Ida E Whitten

Ida E. Whitten was born on a small farm in Kansas and lived with her parents and a younger brother. Throughout her early years she noticed that she stuttered, but it was not a big deal. When she finally went to school and was around other students her stuttering became more noticeable. When Ida entered high school the anxiety and tension of her stutter became worse and lead her to develop feeling of humiliation and subordination, and feeling of insecurity. Her stuttering was so severe in high school that she went through school without doing any oral recitations. After school Ida knew that she was going to be a teacher. She was worried that her stuttering was going to stop her from teaching. When she graduated she was able to find a local teaching job at a small school. For the next few years Ida moved to different rural schools in Kansas. Ida began to realize that she needed to do something about her stuttering if she wanted to continue to teach. Ida decided that she was going to find professional help. Ida enrolled in the University of Iowa and registered for psychology and speech
Whitten was trying to convey a lot of different things to the readers of the book. The main idea that she was conveyed was that having a stutter does not mean that a person cannot have a professional life. Ida had a severe stutter that could have limited her, but she would not allow it to. She decided that no one was going to help so she needed to find the help for herself. She wrote letters, attended college, and asked for assistance from professors to help her control her stutter. A second thing that Ida was conveying in her book was that getting a stutter under control is not easy. She spent years practice the techniques she learned, and was not worried about failing. When the book was written she was in her seventies and she still had to work on her stuttering. Ida E. Whitten wanted this book to be a guiding light for her fellow stutters and their families and