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6 May 2023

VoiceS Unearthed: The Impact of Early Childhood Intervention on Those Who Continue to Stutter (Ep. 719)

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Dori Holte joins Chaya Goldstein-Schuff to discuss her newest book “Voices Unearthed: The Impact of Childhood Intervention on Those Who Continue to Stutter.” Dori shares her motivation to write this book, her hopes for the outcomes for parents of children who stutter and speech therapists from reading this book, and how her view of speech therapy has changed over the years. Dori shares the moving experience of interviewing adults and parents for this book; and how she continues to use them to propel her mission forward of spreading awareness of ways to find safer and more effective stuttering resources.

Doreen (Dori) Lenz Holte has become a world-wide advocate and influencer since the publication of her first book, Voice Unearthed: Hope, Help, and a Wake-Up Call for the Parents of Children Who Stutter in 2011. Voice Unearthed was inspired by the experiences she had with speech therapy for her young son who stuttered.

Her next book, VoiceS Unearthed: The Impact of Early Childhood Intervention on Those Who Continue to Stutter, Holte unearths the voices of 60 individuals, a combination of parents with older children who stutter and adults who stutter, to better understand how early intervention impacted their quality of life.

Dori has been a guest speaker to universities both in the United States and internationally. She has been invited to contribute to various podcasts, blogs, and was an honored contributor to the book, Stammering Pride and Prejudice: Difference not Defect published by J&R Press Ltd. in 2019.

In addition, the Voice Unearthed Facebook group, facilitated by Dori, is now, at 3,600+ members, the largest online parent support group for this topic in the world

Dori lives with her husband, Peter, in Golden Valley, Minnesota. They are parents to three wonderful adult sons and one lovely daughter-in-law – so far.

Links:

Email: voiceunearthed@gmail.com
Website: voiceunearthed.com
Facebook Group: google Voice Unearthed and it should come up. There are screening questions.

By: stuttertalk stuttering Tags: Chaya Goldstein-Schuff, Dori Holte, stuttering

25 Mar 2023

Radical Stuttering: Voice Activated (Ep. 718)

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Steve Anthopoulous joins Chaya Goldstein-Schuff to discuss his award winning short film VOICE ACTIVATED, a film about a deliveryman who stutters and is forced to cooperate with a voice activated car. Steve shares what inspired him to create the film, and his personal journey that got him to where he is today. Steve talks about the theme of avoidance and the power of caring about stuttering less and the freedom that came from talking more about stuttering.

Steve is a comedy writer and director. His short film VOICE ACTIVATED premiered at the Sydney Film Festival, won best screenplay at Stellar Short Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Short Film by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts and Best Short Production by Screen Producers Australia. Voice Activated was a recipient of the Screen NSW Screenability fund. Steve has directed ads for Ausfilm, Netflix and Staples, and loves comedies that find a way to be both fun and meaningful.

Links:

Trailer

Cleveland Film Festival

steveanthopoulos.com

Instagram

By: stuttertalk stuttering Tags: Chaya Goldstein Schuff, stuttering, Voice Activated

11 Feb 2023

There Has Never Been a Better Time to Stutter (Ep. 717)

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Rich Stephens joins Chaya Goldstein-Schuff to talk about his smashing success of Camp SAY Australia, the first-ever sleep away camp for young people who stutter. Rich shares what made the camp experience so special, the power of radical empathy, the unforgettable fun morning songs, and upcoming programming in the land Down Under.

Rich Stephens is a person who stutters and is the President and Programming Director of The Stuttering Association For The Young Australia (SAY: Australia), which is the first International arm of SAY, founded in America in 2001 by Taro Alexander. Rich is also the Camp Director at Camp SAY: Australia, Associate Camp Director at Camp SAY in America, and is the Australian Development Chair of the World Stuttering Network established in 2020. Prior to launching SAY: Australia in 2019, Rich lived in Manchester, UK. Rich spent 6 years working as a Psychiatric Nurse, with his work taking him across the UK, Dublin-Ireland, and Wellington New Zealand. Rich completed his BSc studies in Speech & Language Therapy and MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuroimaging at the University of Manchester. During his BSc studies, Rich first volunteered at Camp SAY in 2015 as a bunk counselor, and fast forward several years later is now bringing a new approach to supporting young people who stutter in Australia.

Links:

SAY:AU
Official Blog of SAY Australia
Instagram
Facebook
SAY Morning songs

Rich Stephens, President and Program Director email: rich@sayaustralia.org.au

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7 Dec 2022

Making Peace with a Stutter (Episode 716)

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John Hendrickson joins Chaya Goldstein-Schuff to discuss the release of his new book “Life On Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter.”

Following his groundbreaking article “What Joe Biden Can’t Bring Himself to Say“, discussed on Stuttertalk in episode 694, on this episode, John fills us in on the past two years of his stuttering journey and how the book “Life On Delay” came to be. John gives us a sneak peek of what’s inside the book, and shares how his relationship with stuttering evolved.

John Hendrickson is a Senior Editor at The Atlantic and the author of Life on Delay: Making Peace With a Stutter, coming January 2023 from Knopf. Life on Delay is a reported memoir that grew out of his Atlantic feature “What Joe Biden Can’t Bring Himself to Say,” which was read by more than 2 million people and named one of the best stories of 2019 by Longform.

John has spoken about stuttering, politics, and journalism on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, and at colleges and universities across the country. Before joining The Atlantic, he wrote and edited for Rolling Stone, Esquire, and The Denver Post.

He lives in New York City with his wife.

Links referenced in the talk for podcast:
Life On Delay on Amazon for purchase

John’s website

John’s previous Stuttertalk, episode 694

John honored at AIS

John’s reference to Brayden Harrington on stuttering

National Stuttering Association (NSA) – find a chapter here

FRIENDS: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter

By: stuttertalk stuttering Tags: Chaya Goldstein-Schuff, John Hendrickson, Life on Delay, Making Peace with a Stutter, stutter, stuttering

19 Oct 2022

Take Back My Life from the Trauma and Stigma of Stuttering (Ep. 715)

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Chris Anderson joins Chaya Goldstein-Schuff to discuss the release of his book Every Waking Moment: The Journey to Take Back My Life from the Trauma and Stigma of Stuttering.

Following his vision set out in episode 466, Chris came back onto StutterTalk to talk about his newly released book. In our conversation, Chris shares why he wrote such a deeply personal book and what he hopes his readers will gain from it. Chris touches on non-traditional topics such as stuttering and mental health and stuttering and trauma. He shares his heart, wisdom, and insight, and some steps on how to start moving forward on the path toward healing.

Christopher Anderson, a person who stutters and writer, is a longtime member of stuttering self-help community and, this October, will self-publish his first book on stuttering, Every Waking Moment: The Journey to Take Back My Life from the Trauma and Stigma of Stuttering, which examines his through-life journey to self-acceptance from first stutter to fatherhood. He is also an award-winning subject matter expert on national security for the US Government in Washington, DC, where he lives with his family. For more, see everywakingmoment.blog.

Chris’s blog: everywakingmoment.blog

Chris on twitter: https://twitter.com/justconfront

Purchase Every Waking Moment: click here.

Upcoming book release events:

NSA event: https://westutter.org/event/chris-anderson/

AIS book release event: https://www.stutteringtreatment.org/events/every-waking-moment-book-release-with-chris-anderson