26 year old Evan Totty, a PhD student attending FRIENDS for the first time
EvanTotty, a 26 year old PhD student in Economics at Purdue University,joins Peter Reitzes at the FRIENDS18th annual convention in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mr. Totty discusses seeking out pubic speaking opportunities and how helpful it has been for him to embrace the ideas that stuttering is okay and it is okay to be a person who stutters. When asked to share one very meaningful thing he has learned in speech therapy, Evan discussed how much it has helped him to tell others that he stutters when presenting in his field and when student teaching.
Dhruv Gupta joins Peter Reitzes at the FRIENDS18th annual convention in Raleigh, North Carolina and discusses how self help in India resembles the early days of self help in the United States. Mr. Gupta is asked about a crowdsourcing fundraiser he is spearheading titled Support Stammering in India. Dhruv describes this fundraiser as a “one-year focused intervention for people who stammer (PWS) in India of all ages to strengthen self-help groups, create & distribute self-help resources, organize workshops/conferences and enrich current therapeutic practices.”
This is the Indian link to the campaign. Dhruv mentioned this article, Running Self Help Groups/support groups which was adapted from a resource written by Michael Sugarman.
Dhruv Gupta is a sustainability advisor at cBalance, a volunteer with The Indian Stammering Association, and the founder of Speak: Stammering Foundation. Dhruv recently facilitated a two day FRIENDS workshop in India and has appeared a number of times on StutterTalk.
Peter Reitzes, MA, CCC-SLP is a person who stutters, President of StutterTalk, a school based speech-language pathologist and author of His Name is Peter Cottontail: My Story Passing as Fluent in the book Stuttering: Inspiring Stories and Professional Wisdom, published by StutterTalk.
Grace McMahon, 16 years old, attending her 7th FRIENDS convention
Grace McMahon, 16 years old, joins Peter Reitzes at the FRIENDS18th annual convention in Raleigh, North Carolina. Grace is attending her 7th FRIENDS convention this summer. Ms. McMahon discusses tearing down the fears of stuttering, stuttering openly, speaking to her entire school about stuttering and her change from focussing on fluency all the time to working on stuttering openly and being happy with herself. Grace shares how both she and her parents have moved from wanting fluency to embracing that stuttering is okay. Grace has a brother who stutters and shared during this episode that “We both stuttering openly; it’s pretty great.”
Del Siegmund joins Peter Reitzes at the FRIENDS18th annual convention in Raleigh, North Carolina. Del is the father of a 14 year old boy who stutters. The Siegmunds attend the FRIENDS convention every summer. Mr. Siegmund talks with deep appreciation about the confidence and support that FRIENDS has provided his son who stutters.
Christopher Constantino, Carol Cheasman and Rachel Everard
Carolyn Cheasman and Rachel Everard join Christopher Constantino from The International Fluency Association’s 2015 World Congress on cluttering, stuttering and other fluency disorders in Lisbon, Portugal. Cheasman and Everard are asked about their presentation Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Therapist and Client Perspectives which they describe as a mindfulness based approach.
Rachel Everard and Carolyn Cheasman are presenting a two-day weekend workshop at Boston University, September 12 & 13, 2015. The workshop is titled Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Speech and Language Pathologists and is sponsored by the Stuttering Foundation at stuttering help.org and Boston University. This two-day workshop will provide valuable training on the methods of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Carolyn Cheasman has worked with adults who stutter at City Lit, London (the UK national specialist centre in adult stuttering therapy) since 1979. She has experienced interiorized stuttering herself and so brings both personal and professional interests to the field. Having completed post-qualification training in personal construct psychology and person-centered counselling, she went on to train as a mindfulness teacher and now teaches mindfulness to people who stutter, speech and language therapists and the general public. Carolyn is also involved in student training and is a clinical tutor at City University, London. In 2012, Carolyn was honored to receive the International Fluency Association Clinician of Distinction award.
Rachel Everard is a specialist speech and language therapist whose decision to train as a therapist stemmed from the fact she stutters herself and from her life-changing experience of receiving therapy at City Lit. Since qualifying in 1996, she has worked in a variety of settings, including community clinics and mainstream primary schools, before joining the City Lit team in 2001. Due to her own personal experience of stuttering, she strongly believes in empowering people who stutter and in the benefits of group therapy. She also believes in the value of self-help and has had a long-standing involvement with the British Stammering Association. To complement her skills as a speech and language therapist, Rachel has completed a certificate in person-centered counseling. Rachel may be contacted via email: Rachel.everard@citylit.ac.uk.
Christopher Constantino is a person who stutters and a PhD student in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Memphis. Chris is doing his clinical fellowship in the Shelby County Schools in Memphis and is conducting a research study to understand and contextualize the experiences of passing as fluent for people who covertly stutter.
Rachel Everard and Sam Simpson join Christopher Constantino from The International Fluency Association’s 2015 World Congress on cluttering, stuttering and other fluency disorders in Lisbon, Portugal. Simpson and Everard are asked about their presentation Stammering and the Social Model of Disability: Implications for Therapy.
Rachel Everard will be co-presenting, with Carolyn Cheasman, a two-day weekend workshop at Boston University, September 12 & 13, 2015. The workshop is titled Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Speech and Language Pathologists and is sponsored by the Stuttering Foundation and Boston University. This two-day workshop will provide valuable training on the methods of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Rachel Everard is a specialist speech and language therapist whose decision to train as a therapist stemmed from the fact she stutters herself and from her life-changing experience of receiving therapy at City Lit. Since qualifying in 1996, she has worked in a variety of settings, including community clinics and mainstream primary schools, before joining the City Lit team in 2001. Due to her own personal experience of stuttering, she strongly believes in empowering people who stutter and in the benefits of group therapy. She also believes in the value of self-help and has had a long-standing involvement with the British Stammering Association. To complement her skills as a speech and language therapist, Rachel has completed a certificate in person-centered counseling. Rachel may be contacted via email: Rachel.everard@citylit.ac.uk.
Sam Simpson is counselor and speech language therapist at InTandem. Ms. Simpson’s current areas of interest include counseling and speech and language therapy for people who stammer and their families (individually and in groups), individual counseling for young people in collaboration with Off the Record, individual counseling for people living with cancer in collaboration with The Mulberry Centre and much more. Sam may be contacted via email: sam@intandem.co.uk.
Christopher Constantino is a person who stutters and a PhD student in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Memphis. Chris is doing his clinical fellowship in the Shelby County Schools in Memphis and is conducting a research study to understand and contextualize the experiences of passing as fluent for people who covertly stutter.
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17 Jul 2015
Seeking Out Public Speaking Opportunities: From the 2015 FRIENDS Convention (Ep. 541)
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Evan Totty, a 26 year old PhD student in Economics at Purdue University, joins Peter Reitzes at the FRIENDS 18th annual convention in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mr. Totty discusses seeking out pubic speaking opportunities and how helpful it has been for him to embrace the ideas that stuttering is okay and it is okay to be a person who stutters. When asked to share one very meaningful thing he has learned in speech therapy, Evan discussed how much it has helped him to tell others that he stutters when presenting in his field and when student teaching.