Jason Faust and Mark O’Malia join hosts Roisin McManus and Caryn Herring at the National Stuttering Association’s 30th Annual Conference in Scottsdale, AZ. During this episode the crew recaps the conference and discuss conference highlights including how impressed they were with this year’s keynote speakers. Guests also discuss the power of support for people who stutter and feeling reaffirmed at the NSA conference. Roisin shared that she feels there is a shift at this year’s NSA conference with less people coming to learn speech skills and more coming to love who they are.
Nadia Alobaid joins Peter Reitzes from the National Stuttering Association’s 30th Annual Conference in Scottsdale, AZ to discuss her first time experience at this major stuttering support event.
Nadia discusses presenting with Vivian Sisskin’s Avoidance Reduction panel, feeling loved at the NSA and a workshop by Morgan Lott on his this is stuttering video.
NADIA ALOBAID is a 27 year-old person who stutters who was born in Kuwait where she lived for 13 years before moving to Eugene, Oregon in the United States. Nadia is currently a second year speech-language pathology graduate student at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Roisin, Mary Anne, Jamie and CarynRoisin, Mary Anne, Jamie and Caryn
This episodes begins with several amazing minutes of short, concise statements about stuttering from a number of conference attendees at the National Stuttering Association’s 30th Annual Conference in Scottsdale, AZ. Then Jamie Rocchio and Mary Anne join StutterTalk hosts Roisin McManus and Caryn Herring (of the StutterTalk B Team) to refresh friendships and discuss the conference and their stuttering. Jamie has been featured many times on StutterTalk and discusses the guilt or concern she feels about attending the conference when she is not stuttering much at this time. The group then discusses how they have inspired and motivated one another over the years.
Guests from the first segment of this episode include Charles White, Luis Espinoza, Stavros Ladeas, Maureen Hooker, Ryan Pedvin, Ben Pritchard, Drew Hudson, Tony Rocher and Andrew Landeros.
Today’s episode is in three segments. In the first segment Dr. Walter Manning joins Peter Reitzes to discuss his recently published research, with J. Gayle Beck, on personality dysfunction in adults who stutter. In the second segment, Dr. Ross. G. Menzies, from the Iverach research group in Australia, joins the conversation to respond.
In the third segment, Dr. Manning joins StutterTalk from Scottsdale, Arizona where he is attending the National Stuttering Association’s Research Symposium and 30th Annual Conference. Dr. Manning reports on a much-anticipated presentation he attended today on research in preschool stuttering treatment. The presentation Dr. Manning discusses on air is titled Comparing a Demands and Capacities Model approach and the Lidcombe Program for pre-school stuttering children: the RESTART randomized trial. The presenter was Marie-Christine Franken, Ph.D., from Sophia Children’s Hospital, The Netherlands.
Ross G. Menzies
WALTER MANNING, Ph.D., is a professor and Associate Dean in the School of Communication Sciences at The University of Memphis. Dr. Manning is a Board Recognized Fluency Specialist, a fellow of American Speech-Language Hearing Association, has published more than 100 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 Dr. Manning’s textbook Clinical Decision Making in Fluency Disorders was published in 2010.
ROSS G. MENZIES, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, Associate Professor at the Australian Stuttering Research Centre and also the Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the University of Sydney and has recently been appointed Convenor and President of the 8th World Congress of Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy to be held in Australia in 2016.
Iverach, L., Menzies, R. G., O’Brian, S., Packman, A., & Onslow, M. (2011). Anxiety and stuttering: Continuing to explore a complex relationship. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 20, 221–232.
Iverach, L., Menzies, R., O’Brian, S., Packman, A., Onslow, M., Jones, M. (2011). Response to Walter Manning and J. Gayle Beck: Comments concerning Iverach, Jones et al. (2009). Journal of Fluency Disorders, 36, 66-71.
Taro Alexander and Caryn Herring join Peter Reitzes to discuss the programming at Our Time. Our Time is a highly respected organization which has been helping kids who stutter since 2001. Taro and Caryn are asked about Our Time’s services which includes arts programs, a summer camp in North Carolina, speech therapy and the October 2013 planned launch of new programs in Westchester, Long Island and New Jersey.
Taro Alexander
Caryn Herring
TARO ALEXANDER, Founder and Director of Our Time, is an accomplished performer, teacher, and director who has stuttered since the age of five.
CARYN HERRING is a person who stutters, Our Time’s resident Speech-Language Pathologist and hosts the StutterTalk B Team with Joel Korte and Roisin McManus.
CARYN HERRING, ROISIN MCMANUS, and JOEL KORTE (the “Stuttertalk B Team“) begin the show by talking about Roisin’s recent wedding speech. Later, Joel talks about his wonderful experience at the University of Minnesota Kids Who Stutter Camp that he took part in last week. This evolves into a conversation about the B Team’s thoughts on how parents can support their children who stutter.
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.
6 Jul 2013
Becoming Totally Fine With Who I Am at the NSA (Ep. 411)
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Jason Faust and Mark O’Malia join hosts Roisin McManus and Caryn Herring at the National Stuttering Association’s 30th Annual Conference in Scottsdale, AZ. During this episode the crew recaps the conference and discuss conference highlights including how impressed they were with this year’s keynote speakers. Guests also discuss the power of support for people who stutter and feeling reaffirmed at the NSA conference. Roisin shared that she feels there is a shift at this year’s NSA conference with less people coming to learn speech skills and more coming to love who they are.