13 Oct 2019
Stamma Campaign: Smashing Stuttering Stereotypes (Ep. 668)
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Jane Powell joins Chaya Goldstein to discuss smashing stuttering stereotypes.
Jane Powell is the CEO of the British Stammering Association (BSA), a post which she took up in 2018. Prior to this she founded the national UK charity CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably, a multi-award winning charity dedicated to reducing male suicide in the U.K. Jane ran this campaign from 2006-2017. Since becoming CEO of the BSA Jane has launched the Stamma Campaign, a campaign dedicated to smashing the stereotypes abut stuttering and changing the narrative of what it means to be a person who stutters.
Links:
- The British Stammering Association smashes stereotypes with Stamma campaign
- Stammering Is Still The Unacceptable Face of Disability
- Third Sector Podcast #8: Leadership
20 Oct 2019
Stuttering, SAY, and ISAD in Australia (Ep. 669)
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Rich Stephens is the President of SAY: Australia, the first international arm of SAY: The Stuttering Association For The Young founded in 2001 in NYC by Taro Alexander. Prior to launching SAY: Australia in June 2019, Rich lived in Manchester, UK, and has a BSc in Speech & Language Therapy and MSc in Neuroscience & Neuroimaging from the University of Manchester. Rich first volunteered at Camp SAY in 2015 as a bunk counsellor, and is now bringing a new approach to supporting young people who stutter to Australia.