20 Oct 2019
Stuttering, SAY, and ISAD in Australia (Ep. 669)
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Rich Stephens joins Chaya Goldstein to discuss his experiences of approaches to stuttering in Australia, the support and obstacles he has faced setting up SAY: Australia, the start of their first creative arts programs, his plans for International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD) 2019, and so much more.
Rich Stephens is the President of SAY: Australia, the first international arm of SAY: The Stuttering Association For The Young founded in 2001 in NYC by Taro Alexander. Prior to launching SAY: Australia in June 2019, Rich lived in Manchester, UK, and has a BSc in Speech & Language Therapy and MSc in Neuroscience & Neuroimaging from the University of Manchester. Rich first volunteered at Camp SAY in 2015 as a bunk counsellor, and is now bringing a new approach to supporting young people who stutter to Australia.
2 Dec 2019
Stammer Time: Building a Society that Accepts Stuttering (Ep. 670)
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Journalist Barry Yeoman
Barry Yeoman joins Chaya Goldstein to talk about his thought provoking article Stammer Time which highlights how stutterers are moving past the medical model of disability. The conversation explores the social model vs. medical model of disability, the concept of ‘stutter gain’, the history of the stuttering self-community, how we can practically start make changes to create a more stutter friendly world, and why he’s excited about the recent conversation in stuttering community about the social model of disability.
Barry Yeoman is a freelance journalist living in Durham, North Carolina. He also teaches journalism and narrative nonfiction at Wake Forest University and Duke University. He has been a member of the stuttering self-help movement since 1992.