11 Sep 2016
Being a Medical Doctor Who Stutters (Ep. 598)
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Dr. Hector R. Perez joins Peter Reitzes to discuss being a medical doctor and researcher who stutters. Dr. Perez is asked about facing stuttering in medical school and his research looking at the healthcare experiences of people who stutter.
Hector R. Perez, MD, MS is a primary care doctor as well as a clinical researcher at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. Dr. Perez worked with the National Stuttering Association to conduct research about the healthcare experiences of persons who stutter, which was published in the November 2015 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine. He is a member of the NSA chapter in Manhattan, NY.
24 Sep 2016
FluencyBank: The Future of Research (Ep. 599)
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Dr. Nan Bernstein Ratner joins Peter Reitzes to discuss FluencyBank, a shared repository for existing and future data relevant to fluency and stuttering research. This initiative will track fluency development in typical children, those who stutter, late-talking children and children raised bilingually. FluencyBank seeks to illuminate the various conditions that may impact fluency, such as language impairment, language competition, planning processes, linguistic structures, and conversational pressures.
Nan Bernstein Ratner, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, BCS-CLLD is Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park. She is a Fellow and Honors recipient of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (ASHA). Dr. Ratner is author of numerous articles and chapters addressing language acquisition and fluency and co-author, with Oliver Bloodstein, of A Handbook on Stuttering (6th edition) – one of the most respected and cited stuttering texts of our time. Dr. Ratner is a much called upon adviser to StutterTalk. Email Nan at nratner@umd.edu.