27 Mar 2015
Use Your Tools and Other Ineffective Nagging (Ep. 507)
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Vivian Sisskin joins Peter Reitzes to discuss Use Your Tools and Other Ineffective Nagging. Ms. Sisskin is taking up residency this week at StutterTalk for five consecutive days of episodes filled with stuttering goodness and wisdom.
Vivian Sisskin, M.S., CCC-SLP, is a Clinical Professor in the department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland and a Board Certified Specialist in Fluency Disorders. Ms. Sisskin runs the Sisskin Stuttering Center in Virginia and is well known for her work in avoidance reduction therapy.
27 Aug 2015
Do the Thing You Fear Most (Ep. 549)
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Michael Giannangeli is asked about being a person who stutters in the business world and at elite universities, his success with avoidance reduction therapy and working with Vivian Sisskin, his concerns with fluency shaping treatment, self help, Toastmasters and much more. Mr. Giannangeli points out the benefits of embracing the role of a stutterer and doing the thing you fear most. He shared that fluency is not the goal.
Michael Giannangeli, 25 years old, was born and raised in Washington, DC. Mr. Giannangeli spent the last three years as an Economic Consultant at Analysis Group in DC and is currently pursuing an MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Boston, MA. Michael played varsity basketball at Swarthmore College and remains a basketball junkie despite a recently ruptured Achilles tendon.