Jane Fraser, President of the Stuttering Foundation, joins Peter Reitzes to celebrate the Foundation’s 65th anniversary and to discuss the Foundation’s past, present and future.
Jane Fraser is president of The Stuttering Foundation, has run the Foundation for more than 30 years and is co-author of If Your Child Stutters : A Guide for Parents now in its 8th edition. Ms. Fraser is asked to discuss some of her favorite Foundation materials, the Foundation’s Workshops for professionals, how technology has helped the Foundation reach the public, how the King’s Speech has changed the stuttering landscape, will the Foundation publish materials on Lidcombe treatment and much, much more.
Dylan Reid joins Peter Reitzes to talk about his life not avoiding stuttering.
DYLAN REID is a 20 year old sophomore at Appalachian State University (ASU), attends the ASU Boone chapter of the National Stuttering Associationand is majoring in marketing with a minor in international business. Dylan is a member of the Appalachian State AHO Rugby Team.
Dylan is asked about his life spent talking openly about stuttering and being raised by his parents not to avoid stuttering or speaking. Dylan is also asked about his views on accommodations in class and his school based speech therapy.
Jai Prakash Sunda joins Peter Reitzes today to discuss his experience using stuttering modification and melting the fears away.
JAI PRAKASH SUNDA, known to his friends as JP, is 27 years old and the current coordinator of The Indian Stammering Association. JP is freelancer in internet technology.JP discusses how a stuttering modification approach, self help and a determination to change have helped him cope with stuttering. JP discusses using bouncing to stutter on purpose and to work through stuttering moments. Mr. Sunda also discusses how he started a support group chapter for people who stutter in Pune, India.
Michael P. Boyle joins Peter Reitzes to discuss mindfulness in stuttering treatment.
During today’s episode Michael Boyle is asked about his article titled Mindfulness training in stuttering therapy: a tutorial for speech-language pathologists published in the Journal of Fluency Disorders in 2011. Michael discusses mindfulness, how mindfulness may be used in stuttering treatment, the evidence base regarding mindfulness in stuttering treatment and much more.
Michael Boyle is a person who stutters, a speech-language pathologist, leader of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Stuttering Association and is currently finishing a Ph.D. program in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at The Pennsylvania State University. Michael’s research focuses on social aspects of stuttering including stigma and bullying in people who stutter, as well as predictors of psychological well-being and resilience among people who stutter.
Dr. Walter Manning joins Peter Reitzes to discuss cognitive restructuring, good counseling, stuttering treatment and much more.
During today’s episode Dr. Manning discusses three goals of stuttering treatment:
Increasing fluency and decreasing stuttering, Improving the ability to communicate, and Developing greater autonomy (agency). To achieve these therapy goals, Dr. Manning considers four principles:
“Move toward rather than away from the problem
Assume responsibility for taking action
Restructure the cognitive view of the self and the problem
Recruit the support of others.”
Manning discusses the importance for people who stutter to “change some of their core constructs about themselves and their ability to communicate” and the “need to increase the meaningfulness of their fluent speaker role over the dominant role as a person who stutters.”
Dr. WALTER MANNING, Ph.D. is a professor and Associate Dean in the School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at The University of Memphis. Dr. Manning is a Board Recognized Fluency Specialist, a fellow of American Speech-Language Hearing Association, an adviser to StutterTalk, has published more than 90 articles in a variety of professional journals and since 1997 has been an associate editor for The Journal of Fluency Disorders. The third edition of his text Clinical Decision Making in Fluency Disorders was published in 2010 and is my personal, favorite treatment centered textbook.
REFERENCES from today’s episode:
Drewery, W., Winslade, J., & Monk, G. (2000). Resisting the dominating story: Toward a deeper understanding of narrative therapy. In R. A. Neimeyer, & J. D. Raskin (Eds.), Constructions of disorder (pp. 243–264). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Robert Quesal joins Peter Reitzes to discuss analogies used to describe stuttering and stuttering treatment.
Today Bob and Peter discuss analogies that people use to describe the nature and treatment of stuttering. In many cases, we have no way of knowing the exact origin of each analogy discussed because many are widely used and often similar in meaning. Bob and Peter begin by discussing the famous stuttering iceberg analogyand proceed to discuss many, many more analogies listed below.
ROBERT W. QUESAL, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Illinois University, a person who stutters, a board recognized fluency specialist and a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Bob is also a much valued member of the StutterTalk advisory Council.
Listed below are links to articles, books or web pages which discuss some of the analogies mentioned in today’s episode. Please note that StutterTalk is not making a determination of where each analogy originated – we are simply providing some links to read about the analogies.
Lisette Wesseling – the chocolate teapot and strict fluency shaping analogy
Mark Bulger – the man with a switch and stuttering analogy
Simon Richardson – “luency is as slippery as a dog in wet tile”
Ari Gershonovitch – stuttering and the broken transmission analogy
Steve Marchant – stuttering and the tangled extension cord
Elliot Olds – the “chinese finger trap, walking across a beam high above the ground (when it’d be trivial to walk across the same beam if it were on the ground), floating in the water on your back (once you start thinking you’re sinking, you start thrashing around which keeps you from floating)”
Voon Pang’s student – slowing down and the band aid analogy
Ruth Mead – stuttering, speech and the windmill analogy
We also discussed:
stuttering and taking an inventory in a burning house analogy (Quesal)
stuttering and being poked while writing analogy (Yaruss)
choosing a stuttering treatment similar to choosing a Mexican restaurant (Reitzes)
stuttering being like an onion (sent to StutterTalk by Rozie Matthews)
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8 Apr 2012
Celebrating the Stuttering Foundation’s 65th Anniversary (328)
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Jane Fraser, President of the Stuttering Foundation, joins Peter Reitzes to celebrate the Foundation’s 65th anniversary and to discuss the Foundation’s past, present and future.
Jane Fraser is president of The Stuttering Foundation, has run the Foundation for more than 30 years and is co-author of If Your Child Stutters : A Guide for Parents now in its 8th edition. Ms. Fraser is asked to discuss some of her favorite Foundation materials, the Foundation’s Workshops for professionals, how technology has helped the Foundation reach the public, how the King’s Speech has changed the stuttering landscape, will the Foundation publish materials on Lidcombe treatment and much, much more.