Alan Rabinowitz was the keynote speaker for an annual convention of the National Stuttering Association and I was one of the fortunate members of the audience. I attended many national NSA gatherings. I found that the workshops for people who stuttered were different from those designed for speech language pathologists (SLP). Persons who stuttered attended meetings about emotional and insightful personal stories.. SLPs listened to professors promote theoretical models, present research studies, and publicize therapy programs. Alan Rabinowitz spoke to both groups of attendees. His story made me cry. His children's picture book, A Boy and a Jaguar, may make you cry too: tears of sadness over Alan's experiences as a child who stuttered and tears of joy at his accomplishments.
Holly K as a Jaguar Craft and Poem and the Themeschoolers has a Jaguars of the Rainforest Graphing activity.
My Picture Book Talk lesson for this story is here.
