3 Feb 2013
Stuttering Acceptance: An Unrequited Love? (384)
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Frank Stetchel joins Peter Reitzes to discuss aging and stuttering, culture and stuttering, acceptance of stuttering and much more. Frank also weighs in on some topics and discussions he has heard over the years on StutterTalk regarding the state of speech therapy, embracing and accepting stuttering, fluency shaping and more.
FRANK STETCHEL is a person who stutters in New Jersey, a board member at his synagogue, co-leads the Brooklyn chapter of the Jewish Stuttering Association and is retired from a professional career as a vocational rehabilitation counselor, supervisor and manager in the New York State Education Office.
Next week on StutterTalk Peter hopes to speak with Joel Korte and Reuben Schuff about crucial stuttering experiences and strategies as suggested by Charles Van Riper.
9 Jul 2016
Freedom to Speak and Freedom to Stutter at the 2016 NSA Conference (Ep. 585)
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Jia Bin joins Christopher Constantino today at the Joint Conference of the National Stuttering Association (NSA) and the International Stuttering Association (ISA) in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Bin shares that in China there is a lot of stigma surrounding disabilities and that many people with disabilities, including people who stutter, feel a need to hide their stuttering in academia and in the workforce. Ms. Bin discusses learning to stutter openly in the United States after feeling trapped with stuttering in China.
Ms. Bin shares, “The more you hide the worse it gets. So for years and years I had to hide every day. Every conversation I had to hide. I had to pretend I could talk like everyone else. That’s a lot of struggle for me. It’s like you are pretending you are somebody else your whole life.” Mr. Constantino discusses with Ms. Bin the consequences of choosing open stuttering.
The joint NSA/ISA conference takes place July 6-10, 2016. This is the NSA’s 33rd annual conference.
Jia Bin is a person who stutters from China living in Michigan. Ms. Bin is a high school Chinese Teacher.
Christopher Constantino is a person who stutters, a StutterTalk host and a PhD student in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Memphis. Chris is doing his clinical fellowship in the Shelby County Schools in Memphis and is conducting a research study to understand and contextualize the experiences of passing as fluent for people who covertly stutter.