21 Jul 2012
FRIENDS is Family and a Stuttering Convention Update (354)
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Ms. Kisha Fowlkes, a parent attending the FRIENDS stuttering convention with her 10-year-old son Kyle, joins Peter Reitzes to discuss stuttering, convention highlights and to update listeners on how conference participants are coping with the shooting tragedy in Colorado.
Ms. Fowlkes is attending the 15 annual convention of FRIENDS: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter. Ms. Fowlkes explains that she is attending the convention to help her son who stutters transition from elementary to middle school in a productive way and to learn more about stuttering.
This year’s convention is being held in Denver, Colorado. A gunman shot and killed 12 people in a nearby Aurora, Colorado movie theater. One of the people wounded, but not killed, is Gage Hankins who is attending the convention. Ms. Fowlkes updates listeners about how convention participants are coping with this tragedy.
22 Jul 2012
True Stuttering at FRIENDS Stuttering Convention (355)
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Tim Flynn, M.S., CCC-SLP, joins Caryn Herring and Joel Korte to discuss stuttering and the 2012 annual convention of FRIENDS: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter in Denver, Colorado.
CARYN HERRING and JOEL KORTE (of the “Stuttertalk B Team”) speak with TIM FLYNN who works as a Speech-Language Pathologist in the public school system in Maryland. He was also a participant in the MTV “True Life” episode on stuttering along side Caryn. In today’s episode, they talk about their perspectives on this years conference as well as Tim and Caryn’s experiences during the filming of MTV “True Life: I Stutter.”