21 Jan 2015
Remembering Gerald Siegel (Ep. 491)
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Walter Manning and Robert Quesal join Peter Reitzes to remember Gerald M. Siegel. Dr. Siegel passed away on November 17, 2014 at the age of 82. Today on StutterTalk we remember Dr. Siegel by discussing his memoir Academic and Personal Reflections on a Career in Communication Disorders. We discuss accountability (a precursor to evidence based practice) in speech-language pathology, Dr. Siegel’s work in operant conditioning, loss of control in defining stuttering and so much more.
ROBERT QUESAL, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a person who stutters, a professor emeritus of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Illinois University, a fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and a retired board certified specialist in fluency disorders.
WALTER MANNING, Ph.D., is a person who stutter and a professor in the School of Communication Sciences at The University of Memphis. Dr. Manning is a board certified specialist in fluency disorders, a fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, and has published more than 100 articles in a variety of professional journals. The third edition of Dr. Manning’s textbook, Clinical Decision Making in Fluency Disorders, was published in 2010.
Gerald “Jerry” Siegel spent his first 21 years in Brooklyn, NY and graduated from Brooklyn college with his BA in 1954. Just three years later Siegel completed his PhD at the famed University of Iowa. Siegel spent forty years in academics and more than 30 years at the University of Minnesota’s speech pathology department. In 2002 Siegel was awarded the Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Siegel was interested in much including stuttering and language development and stated in his memoir that he preferred being a researcher over being a therapist. In addition, Siegel played guitar and sang, was a prolific writer, and loved handball. Siegel shares in his memoir that when he began his studies in 1949, “there were fewer than 1,500 members in ASHA.” Robert West, the first president of ASHA, was one of Siegel’s professors. Siegel studied with Wendell Johnson, Dean Williams and Oliver Bloodstein, pioneers in stuttering research, and developed a friendship with perhaps the most famous pioneer in stuttering, Charles Van Riper. Read more about Gerald Siegel here at the Stuttering Homepage.
27 Jan 2015
Stuttering Treatment: Much More than Fluency (Ep. 492)
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Heather Grossman joins Peter Reitzes to discuss stuttering treatment at the American Institute for Stuttering and using a comprehensive approach which focuses on reducing fear, talking openly talking about stuttering, advertising stuttering, voluntary stuttering, mindfulness, using speech tools to reduce the impact of stuttering and much more. Dr. Grossman discusses a treatment approach which is clearly about much more than “fluency” or stuttering less. Heather shares how her speech therapy approach has evolved over the years as a result of volunteering for self help organizations, listening to people who stutter and working in the field. We discuss the pros and cons of telehealth (sometimes called Skype treatment), the future of speech therapy and much, much more.
Heather Grossman, PhD, CCC-SLP, BRS-FD, is Clinical Director at the American Institute for Stuttering (AIS). Dr. Grossman has worked with children and adults who stutter for over 25 years and was among the first select group of speech-language pathologists to receive board recognition as a specialist in the treatment of fluency disorders from ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association). Heather is extremely active in the stuttering self-help community.