16 Feb 2013
Singing and Stuttering (386)
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Why Does Singing Significantly Reduce Stuttering?
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.
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Some references from today’s episode
Stuttering Foundation press release Singing and Stuttering: What We Know.
Healey, E.C., Mallard, III, A.R., & Adams, M.R. (1976). Factors contributing to the reduction of stuttering during singing. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 19, 475-480.
Packman, A., & Onslow, M. (1999). Stuttering and disfluent wind instrument playing. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 24, 293-298.
Soo-Eun, C. (2011). Using Brain Imaging to Unravel the Mysteries of Stuttering. The Dana Foundation.
Wan CY, Uber TR, Hohmann A, Schlaug G. The Therapeutic Effects of Singing in Neurological Disorders. Music Percept. 2010
10 Mar 2013
Stuttering: Tell Me What To Do (388)
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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:
Related Episode: How To Be an Educated Consumer (83) with Dr. Phil Schneider.