Does Charlie Stutter? (Ep. 231)

Charlie Osborne

Charlie Osborne, MA CCC-SLP joins Peter Reitzes and Eric Jackson to discuss his own speech disfluencies. Charlie recently appeared on StutterTalk episode 227. During that episode, Charlie shared that he is very disfluent but is not a person who stutters. During today’s episode, Peter and Eric play a few clips of Charlie’s more disfluent moments from episode 227 and then discuss whether or not they think Charlie stutters. Then Charlie comes on the program to join the conversation and to answer the question, “Do you stutter?”

Charlie Osborne is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin in Stevens Point. He teaches the fluency disorders course and other courses, supervises in clinic, and provides clinical services at St. Michael’s Hospital. Charlie is past editor of the ASHA Division 4 Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders – a peer reviewed journal and has worked with children and adults who stutter for over twenty years.