13 Jan 2013

Facing Stuttering and Not Giving Up with Kelly Snow (381)

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Kelly Snow
Kelly Snow

Kelly Snow, a longtime veteran of the stuttering community, joins Peter Reitzes to discuss employment challenges, being a reporter who stutters, being the father of two children who stutter, facing stuttering during junior high school, how his faith helps him cope with stuttering, his experience being the second person ever to have a SpeechEasy device and so much more. Kelly and Peter even role play a job interview to hear how Kelly talks openly and positively about stuttering during challenging situations.

KELLY SNOW is 34-years old and a lifelong stutter. Kelly has been a sportswriter and editor and is currently the sports editor of his hometown newspaper — The Courier-Times in Roxboro, NC. During his 12-year journalism career, Kelly has received 13 state press association awards.

During today’s episode we played an edited audio excerpt from this video titled speecheasy. We also discussed these two awesome short essays written by Kelly when he was in high school which are archived at the Stuttering Homepage.

Peter mentioned this StutterTalk episode featuring Mark Babcock and this video:

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6 Jan 2013

Officer Ken Parson, Stuttering and Alleged Discrimination (rebroadcasts)

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This week StutterTalk rebroadcasts two episodes from July of 2011 discussing Officer Ken Parson and his concerns regarding his treatment by the Monroe, Ohio police department. This story is back in the news this week and we thought it would be a good time to feature the topic again on StutterTalk. Below are links to the original two episodes. Both episodes are included in today’s rebroadcast.

Ken Parson

The Reassignment of Officer Ken Parson: Standard Rotation or Sophisticated Discrimination? (Episode 288)

Officer Kenneth Parson and his attorney John J. Scaccia join Peter Reitzes to discuss Officer Parson’s recent reassignment from detective duty back to road patrol. This episode concerns the allegation of Monroe, Ohio police officer Kenneth Parson, who stutters, that he has been treated poorly because of his stuttering. Click here to listen to the full episode.

 

Officer Phil Peet

Discussing the Reassignment of Officer Ken Parson and Stuttering (Episode 289)

Police Officer Phil Peet joins Peter Reitzes to discuss stuttering and the reassignment of Officer Kenneth Parson in the Monroe, Ohio Police Department. Click here to listen to the full episode.

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29 Dec 2012

The Year in Review and Predictions with Dr. Tom Weidig from the Stuttering Brain (380)

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Dr. Tom Weidig

Dr. Tom Weidig, the brain behind the Stuttering Brain blog, joins Peter Reitzes to discuss the year in stuttering, his predictions made in 2011 for 2012 and his predictions for 2013.

Dr. TOM WEIDIG is an independent voice in the stuttering community whose blog, The Stuttering Brain, receives more than 100,000 visits a year. Dr. Weidig has volunteered for the British Stammering Association as a former trustee and past chair of its research committee. Tom’s scientific background is in theoretical physics and finance. Dr. Weidig has studied at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London and was a visiting scholar at Trinity College.

For 2013, Dr. Weidig predicts that basically nothing much will happen in stuttering. Tom states that at this time he views genetic research as the only or main constructive research. Dr. Weidig states that he currently is very cautious and has little hope in pharmaceutical research and deep brain stimulation research. Tom is much more optimistic about current outreach work by self help organizations and those in the stuttering community.

Dr. Weidig discusses his predictions made at the end of 2011 for 2012:

  1. A Dutch study (or the findings) due out soon will show no difference between Lidcombe treatment for preschoolers and a Demands and Capacities treatment approach.
  2. More input from mainstream scientists on stuttering research relating to genes and biochemistry.
  3. More trials on drugs but nothing much happening.
  4. Discussions on blogs and podcasts might switch more to social media, especially Facebook.
  5. The results from the large long-term Phase IIb trial on Pagoclone will be released. They will show that the control group (who took a placebo pill) show significant improvements. The study of this effect will force us to reconsider all outcome studies ever done and compare them to the control groups’ improvements.

Tom has been a guest on StutterTalk numerous times. His appearances are archived here.

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23 Dec 2012

Stuttering During the Holidays (Ep. 379)

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Joel Korte of the StutterTalk “B Team”

CARYN HERRING, ROISIN MCMANUS, and JOEL KORTE (the “Stuttertalk B Team”) discuss some of the challenges with stuttering around the holidays including dealing with family, parties, and inappropriate responses to stuttering. Later, they discuss how strange it can be when you encounter people from your past who are not familiar with the changes that you have made with stuttering, and it can be easy to slip back into old habits and routines.

Caryn tells an inspiring story about Sara MacIntyre who is featured in the StutterTalk book and has appeared on the podcast several times.

All B Team episodes are archived here.

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15 Dec 2012

Did Neanderthals Stutter? – An Update on Genetic Stuttering Research with Dr. Dennis Drayna from the NIH (378)

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Dennis Drayna, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health

Dennis Drayna, Ph.D., Senior Investigator at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at the National Institutes of Health, joins Peter Reitzes to update listeners on genetic research pertaining to stuttering.

Dr. Drayna discusses current genetic research on stuttering,  gene mutations that lead stuttering and speculates as to why or how such mutations cause stuttering. Dr. Drayna is asked about stuttering severity, recovery, stuttering predisposition, gene patent law currently being heard by the Supreme Court of the United States, stuttering as a motor/speech problem, the possibility of individualized gene mutations or variants that may cause stuttering, genetic research on stuttering using mice, gene expression, the possibility of stuttering in early humans and neanderthals and much more.

Dr. Drayna appeared on StutterTalk in 2010 when his research team identified mutations in three genes as a source of stuttering in almost 9% of the volunteers studied. Listen here.

StutterTalk thanks Dr. Tom Weidig at The Stuttering Brain blog for preparing some questions for this episode. Read Dr. Weidig’s summary and comments on today’s episode here.

Check out these recent materials featuring Dr. Drayna:

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4 Dec 2012

Passing as Fluent and Covert Stuttering with Sara and Britni (377)

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Sara MacIntyre

Sara MacIntyre joins Britni Bicknaver to discuss her recently published chapter titled Passing as Fluent in Stuttering: Inspiring Stories and Professional Wisdom. Britni and Sara discuss their individual and shared experiences with covert stuttering.

Sara MacIntyre is a person who stutters and a graduate student studying Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her Bachelor degree in Finance from Lehigh University in 2009 and worked in Washington D.C. for an investment consulting firm prior to returning to school. Sara leads a support group for teens who stutter in Pittsburgh and is personally active with both the National Stuttering Association and FRIENDS: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter.

Sara has been featured on StutterTalk several times – check out her archived inspiration.

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