20 Jul 2012
Shooting Tragedy Touches Stuttering Community (351)
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Mitchell Trichon, Ph.D. joins Peter Reitzes to discuss a terrible tragedy which has touched the stuttering community.
Dr. Trichon is attending the 15th Annual convention of FRIENDS: The National
Association of Young People Who Stutter going on now in Denver, Colorado. A
gunman shot and killed 12 people in a nearby Aurora, Colorado movie theater.
One of the people wounded, but not killed, was Gage Hankins, 18 of Ohio, who was attending the FRIENDS convention. Today on the podcast Mitch takes a few minutes away from the workshops to discuss this tragedy and the feeling at the conference.
21 Jul 2012
Bravery at the FRIENDS Stuttering Convention (352)
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DANNY MURPHY and MEGHAN WALTON are both attending their 15 consecutive conferences of FRIENDS: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter. This year’s conference is being held in Denver, Colorado. A gunman shot and killed 12 people in a nearby Aurora, Colorado movie theater. One of the people wounded, but not killed, is Gage Hankins, 18 of Ohio, who is attending the FRIENDS convention.
Meghan was sitting next to Gage in the theater and provides a firsthand account of the event. Danny discusses how the tragedy has affected him and others attending the conference. Meghan explains how after being shot, Gage asked the paramedics to help others before