MIRIAM MONDLIN An expert on stuttering and how it can end, Consultant Miriam Mondlin is the author of the landmark article “How My Stuttering Ended,” which was part of a public seminar at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation titled “What Interferes with Your True Expression?”

In the article, she tells what she learned from Eli Siegel and Aesthetic Realism about the cause of this impediment and describes the scientific process that ended her stuttering. “Stuttering arises because a person wants to say something and at the same time wants to keep it to himself,” Mr. Siegel explained. “It’s a battle between the self intimately and the self that wants to be expansive.”

Listed in guides to important stuttering websites, Ms. Mondlin has been published on the highly-regarded “Stuttering Homepage” of Minnesota State University, and in newspapers such as The Rock Island Argus. In 2011, her article about a noted film, “The King’s Speech & An Approach to Stuttering,” was published on The Indian Stammering Association website, and two of her articles, including “Genes and ‘Something Else’,” were published in the association’s quarterly newsletter, Samvad.

Ms. Mondlin grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She began her study of Aesthetic Realism in 1952 in classes with Eli Siegel, in which he lectured on the poetry of the world, literature, science, art, music and the questions of the human self. She learned that understanding the cause of stuttering in the widest sense requires a deeper understanding of many other things, including the arts and the family. In 1972, Eli Siegel named her an Aesthetic Realism consultant with the teaching trio The Three Representatives, who gave consultations and seminars in people’s homes throughout the tri-state area. Some of the seminars were:

• What One Member of a Family Owes Another — with a discussion of the letters of a mother, Madame de Sevigne (1626–1696), to her daughter—letters which became famous in French literary history
• What People North, West, East, South Are Looking For — including a consideration of the 1917 novel by Abraham Kahan, The Rise of David Levinsky
• The Ordinary Doom: What Is It? — what we can learn from Arthur Miller’s 1948 play, Death of a Salesman

Over the years, Ms. Mondlin’s early care for art has flourished. She took courses at the Art Students League. At the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, she studied in the class “The Art of Drawing: Surface & Depth,” taught first by the late renowned printmaker Chaim Koppelman, and more recently by Marcia Rackow. She studied in the Critical Inquiry class, conducted by the late artist and Consultant Dorothy Koppelman. Her work has been shown at the Terrain Gallery and in group shows at the Atlantic Gallery, NYC. You can read her gallery talk, “Can We Be Expansive & Contained Like Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’?”

Her study continues in classes taught by Ellen Reiss, Aesthetic Realism Chair of Education.