Shooting Tragedy Touches Stuttering Community (351)

Mitch Trichon

Mitchell Trichon, Ph.D. joins Peter Reitzes to discuss  a terrible tragedy which has touched the stuttering community.

Dr. Trichon is attending the 15th Annual convention of FRIENDS: The National
Association of Young People Who Stutter going on now 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, was Gage Hankins, 18 of Ohio, who was attending the FRIENDS convention. Today on the podcast Mitch takes a few minutes away from the workshops to discuss this tragedy and the feeling at the conference.