Nadia Alobaid joins Peter Reitzes to discuss facing covert stuttering, letting go of fluency, seeking and facing shame, successful and unsuccessful speech therapy experiences, making choices when feeling desperate about stuttering, being a speech-langauge pathology graduate student and much more.
NADIA ALOBAID is a 27 years-old person who stutters who was born in Kuwait where she lived for 13 years before moving to Eugene, Oregon in the United States. Nadia is currently a second year speech-language pathology graduate student at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Return guest SARA MACINTYRE joins CARYN HERRING, ROISIN MCMANUS, and JOEL KORTE (the “Stuttertalk B Team”) to discuss online dating and stuttering. They discuss how best to advertise your stuttering while on a date, people’s reactions to stuttering, gender roles and stuttering, and much more.
Sara MacIntyre is a person who stutters and a graduate student studying Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her Bachelor degree in Finance from Lehigh University in 2009 and worked in Washington D.C. for an investment consulting firm prior to returning to school. Sara leads a support group for teens who stutter in Pittsburgh and is personally active with both the National Stuttering Association and FRIENDS: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter.
Jennifer Campbell joins Britni Bicknaver to discuss her life with covert stuttering, finding self help for people who stutter and competing in a speaking competition. Jennifer discusses having a grandmother who is also covert stutterer and shares that they have never talked about their stuttering.
Britni and Jennifer share covert stuttering stories. Jennifer discusses having a college roommate who was also a covert stutterer, coming out of her “stuttering closet,” speaking to family members and friends about stuttering, participating in a voluntary stuttering workshop, how tiring it is to be a covert stutterer and how she hopes one day to be an overt stutterer.
JENNIFER CAMPBELL is a PhD candidate in Engineering Physics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Her research is in nano-electromechanical systems. She attended her first National Stuttering Association (NSA) conference in 2010 and it was a life-changing experience.
Phil Schneider, Ed.D. CCC-SLP, joins Peter Reitzes to discuss how to respond to speech-language pathologists and people who stutter who say “tell me what to do.” Dr. Schneider is also asked to discuss the role of people who stutter giving advice to one another. A good alternate title for this episode is “Honor the Listening.”
PHIL SCHNEIDER is a Board Recognized Fluency Specialist, an Associate Professor Emeritus of Communication Disorders at Queens College, has been in private practice for more than 35 years and is an adviser to StutterTalk. Phil wrote, with Uri Schneider, the chapter titled “Soul-utions in Therapy for People Who Stutter” in the StutterTalk book Stuttering: Inspiring Stories and Professional Wisdom available at Amazon and elsewhere in paperback and as an ebook. To find out more about the work Phil and his colleagues do, go to schneiderspeech.com.
During today’s episode Phil mentioned these fine referral lists:
CARYN HERRING, ROISIN MCMANUS, and JOEL KORTE (the “Stuttertalk B Team“) discuss Joel’s current struggles with stuttering as well as “Speech Tool Guy,” a concept he made up and introduced in episode 374. Joel loosely defines “Speech Tool Guy” as a character who is never ashamed of stuttering, using speech tools, or being fluent. Roisin shares a “healthy skepticism” of Speech Tool Guy while Joel tries to figure out the best direction for controlling his stuttering.
Joel shares that, “Every time I try really, really hard not to stutter, it’s a disaster.”
Dr. E. Charles Healey, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BRS-FD and Rachel Shill join Peter Reitzes to discuss singing and stuttering and why stuttering is often significantly reduced when singing.
First, Rachel Shill talks about being a songwriter who stutters and how singing has given her a “voice she can rely on.” Rachel sings two songs live on today’s episode.
Then Dr. Healey joins the conversation and is asked about a wide range of topics pertaining to singing and stuttering. Dr. Healey discusses research pertaining to singing and stuttering, treatment implications and other fluency enhancing conditions such as speaking to animals or when alone. Peter wonders if there are any similarities between fluency shaping and singing. Dr. Healey is asked about numerous comments left at the StutterTalk Facebook group in anticipation of today’s episode.
E. CHARLES HEALEY is a professor of speech-language pathology at the University of Nebraska for the past 36 years, a fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, a Board Recognized Fluency Specialist and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Fluency Disorders. Dr. Healey co-developed the well known CALMS Model of stuttering (Cognitive, Affective, Linguistic, Motor and Social). Dr. Healey published, in cooperation with his university, the CALMS Assessment for school age children who stutter.
RACHEL SHILL is a person who stutters, a 32 year old professional chef and a musician from the south west of England. Her spare time is spent writing music, helping out at her local recording studio and blogging at Thoughts From a Closed Mind.
PETER REITZES is a person who stutters and a speech-language pathologist.
StutterTalk® is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to talking openly about stuttering. StutterTalk is the first and longest running podcast on stuttering. Since 2007 we have published more than 700 podcasts which are heard in 180 countries.
31 Mar 2013
Letting Go of Fluency with Nadia Alobaid (391)
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Nadia Alobaid joins Peter Reitzes to discuss facing covert stuttering, letting go of fluency, seeking and facing shame, successful and unsuccessful speech therapy experiences, making choices when feeling desperate about stuttering, being a speech-langauge pathology graduate student and much more.
NADIA ALOBAID is a 27 years-old person who stutters who was born in Kuwait where she lived for 13 years before moving to Eugene, Oregon in the United States. Nadia is currently a second year speech-language pathology graduate student at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
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