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:
CARYN HERRING, ROISIN MCMANUS, and JOEL KORTE (the “Stuttertalk B Team“) discuss Joel’s current struggles with stuttering as well as “Speech Tool Guy,” a concept he made up and introduced in episode 374. Joel loosely defines “Speech Tool Guy” as a character who is never ashamed of stuttering, using speech tools, or being fluent. Roisin shares a “healthy skepticism” of Speech Tool Guy while Joel tries to figure out the best direction for controlling his stuttering.
Joel shares that, “Every time I try really, really hard not to stutter, it’s a disaster.”
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.
Reuben Schuff and Joel Korte join Peter Reitzes to discuss crucial stuttering experiences in speech therapy as proposed by Charles Van Riper.
Dr. Van Riper’s list of 15 crucial stuttering experiences is archived here at The Stuttering Homepage. Some of the items we discuss from Van Riper’s list are:
“The stutterer is responsible for his own behavior – including his stuttering.”
“Stuttering can be deliberately endured, touched, and maintained and studied.”
“Avoidance increases fear and therefore stuttering, and it must be reduced.”
“It is possible to release oneself voluntarily from tremors, fixations, and oscillations.”
“When a moment of stuttering occurs, it should be studied, and its evil effects should be erased as much as possible.”
Van Riper explained, “These are the crucial experiences which your therapy should provide for the person who stutters. Again and again you must seek to facilitate these basic experiences. These should be the goals which structure your therapy.”
An alternative title for this episode could be something Reuben said during the episode – Stuttering: A Collection of Avoidance Behaviors.
REUBEN SCHUFF is an Aerospace Engineer. He co-founded the Teens Who Stutter (TWST) chapter of the National Stuttering Association (NSA) in Raleigh, North Carolina.
JOEL KORTE is an electrical engineer and attends a masters program for Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Minnesota. Joel works as a design engineer for ZVEX Effects, a highly regarded guitar effects company. Joel is a musician in a Minneapolis based band, Ghost Towns of the West. Joel is not only a B Team host, but he is the technical guru who records and edits all of their episodes.
PETER REITZES is a person who stutters and a speech-language pathologist.
Next Week: Stuttering and Singing
Next week StutterTalk plans on discussing singing and stuttering. Leave us your thoughts and questions at the StutterTalk Facebook group or send us an email. We may discuss your comments on air.
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.
CARYN HERRING, ROISIN MCMANUS, and JOEL KORTE (the Stuttertalk “B Team“) discuss Roisin’s recent experiences learning Spanish and taking a three week trip to Guatemala. They wrap up the show by discussing Lazaro Arbos’ wonderful audition on American Idol.
StutterTalk® is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to talking openly about stuttering. StutterTalk is the first and longest running podcast on stuttering. Since 2007 we have published more than 700 podcasts which are heard in 180 countries.
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:
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