16 Oct 2011
Stuttering Across the Globe: New Zealand (302)
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Bruce Whitfield, Lisette Wesseling and Voon Pang join Peter Reitzes to discuss stuttering, self help and treatment in New Zealand. This is StutterTalk’s second episode in our Stuttering Across the Globe series.Bruce Whitfield is past president of The New Zealand Speak Easy Association and past editor of their newsletter Air Flow. Mr. Whitfiled is a Course Instructor of the McGuire Program. Bruce is now 64 and happily and busily retired from 27 years as a chemistry technician. Bruce met his wife Nina at a fluency course 13 years ago.
Lisette Wesseling lives in Wellington, New Zealand with her husband Neil. She is a professional classical soprano, and teaches voice to children and adults. For part of the week, she works as a braille awareness consultant at the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind, where she tries to promote the importance of braille to blind and sighted people. Lisette is herself blind and is a person who stutters.
Voon Pang is a Speech Language Pathologist who works at the Stuttering Treatment And Research Trust (START) in Auckland, New Zealand. Since graduating in 2006, he has traveled within Australia as well as internationally (US and UK) to attend workshops and internships to be
better equipped at helping those who stutter. During today’s episode Voon discussed Tools for Success: A Cognitive Behavior Therapy Taster published by the Stuttering Foundation.
16 Sep 2012
Stammering is Okay with Dr. Satyendra Srivastava (365)
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Dr. Satyendra Srivastava, a medical doctor and stammerer in India, joins Peter Reitzes to discuss his new self help manual for people who stammer (stutter) which will be available from The Indian Stammering Association (blog and website). Dr. Strivastava, known to his friends as Sachin, writes in his new manual:
“You are changed, not by what you know, but by what you do.”
Sachin and Peter discuss the power of doing, acceptance, highlights of the manual, gender issues for people who stammer in India and a few differences of opinion. During today’s episode, Sachin discussed an article titled Towards a Notion of Transfluency by Cristóbal Loriente.
Dr. Satyendra Srivastava was born in 1959 in India and worked as a General Practitioner in hospitals until 1993. Sachin founded The Indian Stammering Association (TISA), a self-help association, in 2007 and has conducted free workshops for people who stutter based on communication skills, acceptance and self help ideas. Dr. Srivastava has conducted training in Health Management and worked as Program Manager with a large Non Governmental Agency in Garhwal. Sachin has conducted social research, documentation, program evaluation and facilitated workshops on health, gender issues, disability and more.