Dr. Leana Wen joins Peter Reitzes to discuss growing up with covert stuttering, learning to face stuttering openly, avoidance reduction therapy, the power of meeting others who stutter and so much more.
CARYN HERRING, JOEL KORTE and ROISIN MCMANUS of the Stuttertalk B Team kick off the show by having Joel talking about his new adventures in fatherhood. Later, Caryn shares some of her experiences in an environment where nobody knows her or her stuttering story. This evolves into a conversation about people trying to “help” you with your stuttering when you don’t necessarily want it.
Heather Grossman joins Peter Reitzes to discuss stuttering treatment at the American Institute for Stuttering and using a comprehensive approach which focuses on reducing fear, talking openly talking about stuttering, advertising stuttering, voluntary stuttering, mindfulness, using speech tools to reduce the impact of stuttering and much more. Dr. Grossman discusses a treatment approach which is clearly about much more than “fluency” or stuttering less. Heather shares how her speech therapy approach has evolved over the years as a result of volunteering for self help organizations, listening to people who stutter and working in the field. We discuss the pros and cons of telehealth (sometimes called Skype treatment), the future of speech therapy and much, much more.
Heather Grossman, PhD, CCC-SLP, BRS-FD, is Clinical Director at the American Institute for Stuttering (AIS). Dr. Grossman has worked with children and adults who stutter for over 25 years and was among the first select group of speech-language pathologists to receive board recognition as a specialist in the treatment of fluency disorders from ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association). Heather is extremely active in the stuttering self-help community.
Walter Manning and Robert Quesal join Peter Reitzes to remember Gerald M. Siegel. Dr. Siegel passed away on November 17, 2014 at the age of 82. Today on StutterTalk we remember Dr. Siegel by discussing his memoir Academic and Personal Reflections on a Career in Communication Disorders. We discuss accountability (a precursor to evidence based practice) in speech-language pathology, Dr. Siegel’s work in operant conditioning, loss of control in defining stuttering and so much more.
ROBERT QUESAL, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a person who stutters, a professor emeritus of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Illinois University, a fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and a retired board certified specialist in fluency disorders.
WALTER MANNING, Ph.D., is a person who stutter and a professor in the School of Communication Sciences at The University of Memphis. Dr. Manning is a board certified specialist in fluency disorders, a fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, and has published more than 100 articles in a variety of professional journals. The third edition of Dr. Manning’s textbook, Clinical Decision Making in Fluency Disorders, was published in 2010.
Gerald “Jerry” Siegel spent his first 21 years in Brooklyn, NY and graduated from Brooklyn college with his BA in 1954. Just three years later Siegel completed his PhD at the famed University of Iowa. Siegel spent forty years in academics and more than 30 years at the University of Minnesota’s speech pathology department. In 2002 Siegel was awarded the Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Siegel was interested in much including stuttering and language development and stated in his memoir that he preferred being a researcher over being a therapist. In addition, Siegel played guitar and sang, was a prolific writer, and loved handball. Siegel shares in his memoir that when he began his studies in 1949, “there were fewer than 1,500 members in ASHA.” Robert West, the first president of ASHA, was one of Siegel’s professors. Siegel studied with Wendell Johnson, Dean Williams and Oliver Bloodstein, pioneers in stuttering research, and developed a friendship with perhaps the most famous pioneer in stuttering, Charles Van Riper. Read more about Gerald Siegel here at the Stuttering Homepage.
Patrick Campbell joins Peter Reitzes to discuss being a medical student who stutters, passing as fluent, moving from covert to overt, presenting in front of hundreds of people, accommodations in medical school and much more.
Patrick Campbell is a fourth year medical student at the Hull York Medical School in England and a person who stutters. Mr. Campbell used to try and keep his stutter hidden but has since realized there is a better way to approach his speech, with openness and acceptance. For the past three years, Mr. Campbell has been working towards this aim. He has most recently been elected to become trustee for the British Stammering Association as he hopes to give back to the stuttering community.
Erin Schick and Joshua St. Pierre from the website Did I Stutter? (DIS) join Peter Reitzes to discuss stuttering issues. The conversation is consistent with the DIS mission of providing “an alternative way of thinking about speech and communication disabilities.” Topics include Ms. Schick’s Honest Speech video, self help and activism, person first language, stuttering in the workplace, speech therapy, stuttering hospitably and much more. Joshua and Erin were asked about a number of posts from the DISblog.
Erin Schick currently lives in Portland, Oregon where she is finishing a B.A. in sociology and looking forward to pursuing a Master’s of Social Work and working as a youth advocate. She is active in the poetry slam community and has competed in multiple national competitions, where she uses her voice to combat ableist attitudes and smash the patriarchy.
Joshua St. Pierre lives in Alberta, Canada and has published on stuttering and communication both academically and non-academically. He is currently pursuing his PhD in philosophy. Joshua founded DIS with Zach Richter.
StutterTalk® is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to talking openly about stuttering. StutterTalk is the first and longest running podcast on stuttering. Since 2007 we have published more than 700 podcasts which are heard in 180 countries.
9 May 2015
Baltimore Health Commissioner Leana Wen: The Power of Meeting Other People Who Stutter (Ep. 513)
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Dr. Leana Wen joins Peter Reitzes to discuss growing up with covert stuttering, learning to face stuttering openly, avoidance reduction therapy, the power of meeting others who stutter and so much more.
Leana S. Wen MD, MSc, FAAEM, is the newly appointed Health Commissioner of Baltimore City, is a Harvard-educated emergency physician, Rhodes Scholar, TED speaker (link), and author of the best-selling book, When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests. Dr. Wen is interviewed in the Summer 2015 Stuttering Foundation newsletter (interview and full newsletter) and is a keynote presenter, this July 4th, at the annual conference of the National Stuttering Association in Baltimore, MD.
Stuttering Awareness Week begins May 11. In celebration, the Stuttering Foundation just published the Top 10 Things to do to Celebrate Stuttering Awareness Week.