Download | Duration: 00:54:02

Peter and Eric talk about Italy, Stuttering John, the Howard Stern Show, and of course, voluntary stuttering. They also wonder aloud about what they would give to keep their stuttering from being cured (yes, we talk once again about stuttering being a gift!). The picture below is of Peter with his wife Lisa, good stuttering friend Massi, and Massi's soon to be wife, Antonella, all hanging out in Italy.



Eric's band Rocketship Park has a new album out. The song "run away" is featured in today's podcast and can be downloaded here.

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Thanks to Brooklyn-based bands The Hold Steady and The National and Yo La Tengo for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. Thanks to friend Benji Cossa for drawing our mugs for the site. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins.

        

Download | Duration: 00:44:36

This week Greg and Joe get together and talk stuttering - imagine that! The guys try to answer the question, "Can a person truly change the way they speak?" Greg and Joe also pay homage to the late (great) Vivian Sheehan, a leader in the stuttering world. Peter was in Italy and Eric was busy with the release of his new album with Rocketship Park which is pictured below.



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Thanks to Brooklyn-based bands The Hold Steady and The National for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins. 

        

Download | Duration: 01:25:39

First off, StutterTalk wants to thank Wesleymiles Graphics for listening and for donating his time to create us a great new StutterTalk logo (check out the new logo on the top left of this page). Thanks Wes!

In this episode, Greg, Peter and Eric discuss altered speech feedback and prosthetic devices for people who stutter. Check out these great articles: The Use of Altered Speech Feedback in Stuttering Management by StutterTalk co-host Greg Snyder and A Brief Historical Review of Assistive Devices for Treating Stuttering by Larry Molt. Also, apologies for the sound quality during this episode. Eric was on his cell phone, and Greg's computer has a mind of its own. We also think Peter's cats, Cosmo and Elbee, are playing with his wires....



We discussed the Edinburgh Masker, the SpeechEasy and assistive devices made by Casa Futura Technologies. The British Stammering Association has put together a page on Electronic Fluency Devices and the National Stuttering Association published a Position on The Speech Easy and other assistive devices. Here are several articles about Greg and the work he has done on altered speech feedback:

• Professor Uses iPods to Provide Help for People who Stutter
• iPods to Provide Help for Stutterer

The logo below is an idea that Wes sent us as well. So many good logos to choose from!



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Thanks to Brooklyn-based bands The Hold Steady and The National for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins. At the end of the show, there is a full, un-mixed version of the Higgins tune, "Charlie," from the upcoming Zees record. It kicks.

        

Download | Duration: 00:41:50

Greg, Peter, Eric and Joe discuss being successful and stuttering, and how much should we expect of ourselves when using speech tools. We also talk about stuttering being a gift and tackle the question, "Would you take a pill to cure your stuttering?"

Also, StutterTalk is trying out new logos like the one featured below. Send us in your logo ideas and if we like it, we will consider posting it on an episode or maybe even using it as our logo. The dimensions should be 200 width by 120 height.



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The College of Saint Rose is sponsoring their 33rd Weekend Workshop for People Who Stutter at the College of Saint Rose, April 4, 5 and 6, 2008.

Thanks to the Brooklyn-based bands The Hold Steady and The National for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins.

        

Download | Duration: 00:37:06

This was the show of many topics. The guys talked about how great Kristin Chmela was last week. Then Peter, Eric and Joe took on the following topics: What exactly is a speech tool? Where do our minds go during a moment of stuttering? Is stuttering ever easier or preferable to using speech tools? The guys also ask listeners, "Why, sometimes, is it hard being a stutterer?" Eric's pal, Benji Cossa, was kind enough to sketch us Stuttertalk folk. Below is a sketch of Joe Klein.



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The College of Saint Rose is sponsoring their 33rd Weekend Workshop for People Who Stutter at the College of Saint Rose, April 4, 5 and 6, 2008.

Thanks to the Brooklyn-based bands The Hold Steady and The National for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins.

        

Download | Duration: 00:58:31

Kristin Chmela, MA CCC-SLP (pictured below) joins StutterTalk to discuss a wide range of topics including emotional recovery, recovery from shame, the freedom to speak, co-occurring neurological issues including Tourette's syndrome, keeping "regulated," moving forward in a postive direction, being a woman who stutters and so much more. This week's episode begins by discussing Ms. Chmela's article concerning Thoughts on Recovery.



Ms. Chemla is a frequent presenter for Stuttering Foundation Workshops on Fluency for Professionals. Her next Stuttering Foundation workshop is June 18-22, 2008, Philadelphia PA, with co-presenters Joseph Donaher and Lisa Scott (click here for the application). Ms. Chemla is the clinical director for Speak Up! Summer Camp for Kids Who Stutter (flyer) for children ages 7-14, August 11-15, 2008, at Camp Duncan, in Ingleside, IL. Kristin Chmela is the director of the Central Speech and Language Clinic (web site coming soon).

Ms. Chmela is the author and co-author of numerous publications on stuttering. A few are listed below:

• Focus on Fluency: A Tool Kit for Creative Therapy (therapy kit)
• Working with Preschoolers Who Stutter: Successful Intervention Strategies (film)
• Working with Teachers: Practical Ideas for School Clinicians (film)
• The School-Age Child Who Stutters: Working Effectively with Attitudes and Emotions (workbook)
• Self & Double Charting: A Self-Monitoring Strategy for School-Age Children Who Stutter (article)
• Meeting the Challenges of Stuttering Treatment in the Schools (convention handout)
• The Role of Stuttering Specialists in the School Setting (article)    

There is also this interview with Kristin Chmela.

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Thanks to the Brooklyn-based bands The Hold Steady and The National for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins.

        

Download | Duration: 00:50:23

Greg, Peter, Eric and special returning host Joe Klein talk about Goals of Therapy for Adults with a Chronic Stuttering Problem (a short paper by Steve Hood). Goals are discussed such as "I no longer need to chase the Fluency God," "I can live without constant fear of stuttering," "I am not suffering or handicapped because of my stuttering" and "I have choices I can make that help me talk easily." Joe and Peter discuss their favorite ideas by Charles Van Riper (pictured below). To paraphrase Van Riper, 'You don't have a choice if you stutter, but you have a choice of how you will stutter.' Peter discusses this letter that Charles Van Riper sent to Andreas Starke. In the letter, Van Riper says, "We stutterers do not need to learn how to speak fluently. We already know how to do that. All of us can speak fluency at certain times and under certain conditions. What we don't know how is how to stutter fluently."



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The College of Saint Rose is sponsoring their 33rd Weekend Workshop for People Who Stutter at the College of Saint Rose, April 4, 5 and 6, 2008.

Thanks to the Brooklyn-based bands The Hold Steady and The National for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins.

        

Download | Duration: 00:46:47

Joe Klein joins StutterTalk once again to share his wisdom and experience on a host of issues. Joe asks if practicing speech tools when alone is beneficial and if speech pathologists who stutter have an obligation to use speech tools in front of clients and outside of therapy. We also answer listener emails that ask if there are any jobs that people who stutter cannot or should not do. The photo below is of Eric's band Rocketship Park.



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The College of Saint Rose is sponsoring their 33rd Weekend Workshop for People Who Stutter at the College of Saint Rose, April 4, 5 and 6, 2008.

Thanks to the Brooklyn-based bands The Hold Steady and The National for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins.

        

Download | Duration: 00:40:13

Special guest Joe Klein from the College of Saint Rose joins us to listen to the coolest voice message ever. Of course, voluntary stuttering is discussed and Greg gives his infamous "purple Kool-Aid" explanation for stuttering on purpose. And, we award the Strongest and Bravest Stuttering Award to Jamie for calling in to today's show. Way to go Jamie!



The College of Saint Rose is sponsoring their 33rd Weekend Workshop for People Who Stutter at the College of Saint Rose, April 4, 5 and 6, 2008.

Email us at stuttertalk@stuttertalk.com or call our voice mail.


Thanks to Brooklyn based The Hold Steady for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins.

        

Download | Duration: 00:54:19

StutterTalk hit the road last week. Peter and Eric were invited by Joe Klein to present at the College of Saint Rose. After speaking to a wonderful room of speech pathologists and graduate students, we recorded this show in Joe's living room. We basically kept talking until Joe's wonderful children came home from a day of skiing. Our topics included going on job interviews, productive stuttering and when a speech pathologist who stutters should bring up his or her own stuttering with clients. The picture below is of Joe Klein.



Here are a few of Joe's articles about stuttering:

• Lost in the Stuttering Woods: Ten Years Later
• When Do I Get to Shut the Door? The Pseudostuttering Experiences of Two Undergraduate Students
• Life is a Journey
• The Impact of Stuttering on Employment Opportunities and Job Performance

The College of Saint Rose is sponsoring their 33rd Weekend Workshop for People Who Stutter at the College of Saint Rose, April 4, 5 and 6, 2008.

As we mentioned on the podcast, the wonderful movie Rocket Science (about a high school student dealing with stuttering and life) is now available on DVD. If you want to order this great film, go to this store at Stuttering Homepage and search on the words "Rocket Science" in the box at the top. By doing so, you are taken to Amazon.com. The Stuttering Homepage (an awesome non-profit site) will get about 60 cents for each DVD ordered if you do it this way.

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Thanks to Brooklyn based The Hold Steady for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins.

        

Download | Duration: 00:50:00

Greg, Peter and Eric talk about numerous hot stuttering topics. We start by discussing the observation that in some cases, overt avoidance behaviors appear to actually be a sign of therapeutic progress in people who avoid stuttering. We discuss depression, diet, resources for people who stutter and whether or not delayed auditory feedback and frequency altered feedback devices should be used with children who stutter.

By the way, it was Greg's turn to provide a picture for this week's episode, which he did not, so StutterTalk listeners are being treated to the picture below of Peter's cats Elbee (the white one) and Cosmo (the Flabby Tabby).



The Stuttering Homepage offers a comprehensive page of links to find Discussion Forums for people who stutter. There are many. many places for people who stutter to talk over the internet. Here are  just a few:

• Stuttering Chat (Yahoo email group)
• Stuttering Forum (bulletin board)
• Stutt-L (One of the first emailing groups for people who stutter with an archived and searchable database. However, this group can get a little negative at times.)
• Covert S (Yahoo email group for covert stutterers)
• SLPsStuttering (Yahoo email group for SLPs and graduate students who stutter)

Contact FRIENDS: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter and the National Stuttering Association for information about their closed email groups for children who stutter, teens who stutter and parents of children who stutter.

For a brief review of assisted devices for treating stuttering, see this article by Dr. Larry Molt or this article by StutterTalk co-host Greg Snyder.

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Thanks to Brooklyn based The Hold Steady for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins.

        

Download | Duration: 00:41:14

StutterTalk welcomes special guest Caryn. Caryn joins the guys in discussing the challenges stutterers face. Caryn talks about facing covert stuttering, making changes, family issues pertaining to stuttering and her appearance on MTV's True Life Series about stuttering. Watch this video clip of Caryn taken from MTV's True Life series.



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Thanks to Brooklyn based The Hold Steady for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins.

        

Download | Duration: 00:36:41

Peter and Eric talk about speech tools we are focusing on this week. Eric talks about working on fluency shaping, Peter talks about his use of pausing and of course we both talk about how much we use voluntary stuttering. We discuss our earliest memories of stuttering and we answer a listener's email about scanning ahead (stuttering radar). This topic of scanning ahead to find words we might stutter on was the featured topic on StutterTalk Episode 11. We also share a very cool submission from a listener for our Stuttering Olympics event of the "Longest/Hardest Block Ever."


Send us your earliest stuttering memory and include as much detail as you would like! Email us at stuttertalk@stuttertalk.com or call our voice mail at 1-206-888-4619.


We want to hear your story! Stuttering Olympic events include:

• The Longest/Hardest Stutter
  
• The Rudest Listener Story
  
• The Best Avoidance Story
• The Funniest Stuttering Story
  

Thanks to the Brooklyn based Hold Steady for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins.

        

Download | Duration: 00:40:53

Greg, Peter and Eric discuss a host of issues from recent family experiences with stuttering, to Eric's blackjack skills, the role that religion and faith have in the lives of some people who stutter, and Greg wonders aloud if God let Moses continue avoiding stuttering. Below is a picture of StutterTalk co-host Eric Jackson sharing some of his stuttering wisdom.



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Also, check out this blog by Tom Weidig called The Stuttering Brain. The Stuttering Brain has received some nice notoriety including this blog of the week feature.



Thanks to the Brooklyn based Hold Steady for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins.

        

Download | Duration: 00:52:00

Greg, Peter and Eric talk about recent stuttering experiences, rude listeners and compare stuttering to addiction. Ira Flatow's new book, Present at the Future is mentioned (Ira Flatow is the host of National Public Radio's Science Friday program - his book covers recent scientific advances). Peter discusses his cat Cosmo (pictured below) who is recovering nicely from an illness.



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Thanks to the Brooklyn based Hold Steady for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Rocketship Park and Higgins.

        

Download | Duration: 00:32:12

Peter and Eric discuss their top stuttering moments of the year.



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Thanks to the Brooklyn based Hold Steady for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's band Rocketship Park.

        

Download | Duration: 00:31:45

StutterTalk welcomes Jeff Shames to talk about the challenges of difficult stuttering periods in our lives, relapse and variability, and Jeff’s wonderful film Spit It Out. For more information about Spit It Out, contact spititoutfilm@gmail.com.

 

Our next episode will feature our top stuttering related moments of 2007. These moments will be concerning joyous or challenging experiences, favorite articles, workshops or resources about stuttering and anything else stuttering related. Join the conversation by sending us your top stuttering related moments. Email us at stuttertalk@stuttertalk.com or call our voice mail.


Thanks to the Brooklyn based Hold Steady for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's band Rocketship Park.

        

Download | Duration: 00:53:12

StutterTalk welcomes Dr. Kenneth O. St. Louis to talk about self-help, his wonderful book Living with Stuttering: Stories, Basics, Resources and Hope, person-first language, cluttering and so much more.

    

Living with Stuttering is available from Populore: Preserving Stories of the People. Below are some personal essays written by people who stutter from Living with Stuttering.

• Working for a New Attitude (pdf file)
• I Decided Then and There to Become a Speech Therapist... (pdf file)
• I Chose to Swim (pdf file)
• A Day in the Life of a Stutterer: Trauma in the Drive-Thru (pdf file)

Below is a partial list of articles and handouts by Dr. St. Louis.

• What's In a Name?
• Person-First Labeling and Stuttering (abstract)
  
• An Investigation of Adolescent Opinions on Stuttering (ASHA Handout, 2007) (pdf file)
  
• The Story of Living with Stuttering
• Providing Help for People Who Stutter: A World View
• A Synopsis of Cluttering and Its Treatment (St. Louis & Myers)
  
• Public Awareness of Cluttering and Stuttering: Preliminary Results
  
• A Global Project to Measure Attitudes About Stuttering
• A Typical (?) Stutterer's Story
  
• Draft Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for People who Stutter (modified by Kenneth St. Louis)
• Cluttering: Some Guidelines

Dr. St. Louis mentioned MTV's True Life episode on stuttering.

Thanks to the Brooklyn based Hold Steady for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's band Rocketship Park.

        

Dr. Drayna provided StutterTalk with this Update on Genetics Research  (ppt file). Below is a partial list of papers and abstracts written or co-written by Dr. Drayna on the genetics of stuttering:

• New Clues into Stuttering May Be Found in Genes
• Studies in a Unique Community Give New Genetic Insights Into Stuttering
• New Light on Genetic Factors
• Newly Discovered Families Give Impetus to Genetics Research
• African Families Provide New Avenues for Genetic Research
• Genomewide Significant Linkage to Stuttering on Chromosome 12

The Stuttering Foundation has put together a list of some basic research articles relating to etiology and genetic research. Dr. Drayna recommends that listeners check out research by Dr. Gerald Maguire. Many references to articles by Dr. Maguire may be found at the University of California's Stuttering Research Group.

Thanks to the Brooklyn based Hold Steady for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's band Rocketship Park.

        

Download | Duration: 00:31:17

Greg, Peter and Eric talk about covert stuttering, electronic forms of support and determine that stuttering, is in fact, cool. 

Below is a list of some fine papers written on covert stuttering from the Stuttering Homepage.

• I'm Not Hiding Anymore by Rob Bloom
• My Life as a Covert Stutterer by Barbara Wimpee
• Passing as Fluent by Tarry Dartnall
• I've Got a Secret -- And It's Scaring Me to Death! (The Story of a Covert Stutterer) by Steve Hood and Chris Roach
• The Stuttering Paradox: A Trap To Full Acceptance. Some Journal Based Thoughts From A Covert Stutterer by Lieven Grommen

Check out  this past StutterTalk program that discusses covert stuttering. And there is an email group called Covert-S that is a closed group for covert people who stutter.

Thanks to the Brooklyn based Hold Steady for supplying their musical goodness to StutterTalk. We also include some fine music from Eric's bands Higgins and Rocketship Park.