Chapter 15“Today, I’d like to talk to you all about the nature of traumatic brain injuries and its link with stuttering.”
Hailee sighed. She stopped the recording software on her phone and then deleted the file. She’d been doing this for the past hour in her hotel room in downtown Toronto, where the conference was being held. Though she’d already written this chapter in her dissertation, and submitted an abstract based on it for the conference, the words weren’t working. It wasn’t nerves, she was sure, since she’d done this a dozen times before. She often never had notes, only stepped up on the stage with a few bullet points she needed to hit and spoke from the knowledge she’d already gathered and written down elsewhere.
But today, this paper, and her upcoming talk in a few hours, was st
