Danny Murphy and Meghan Walton join Peter Reitzes to discuss a terrible tragedy which has touched the stuttering community and a brave response.
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
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.
back row: workshop participants front: Vivian Sisskin, Dr. Lisa Scott, Jane Fraser, Dr. Joseph Donaher
Stuttering Foundation presenters Dr. Joseph Donaher and Vivian Sisskin and workshop participants join Peter Reitzes to discuss the Foundation’s weeklong workshop for speech-language pathologists, Treating Children and Adolescents Who Stutter, held this past week in Philadelphia.
Presenters Donaher and Sisskin are joined by workshop participants Beth Brant, Gail Dunn and Amanda Wells. Participants discuss the confidence, knowledge and skills they gained. Participants also discuss their great appreciation for the Foundation’s focus on current research and evidence and their problem solving approach to individualized speech therapy.
JOSEPH DONAHER, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, coordinates the Stuttering Program at the Center for Childhood Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is a Board Recognized Specialist in Fluency Disorders and is the presenter in the Stuttering Foundation’s new film titled ADHD & Children Who Stutter.
VIVIAN SISSKIN, M.S., CCC-SLP, is an instructor and clinical supervisor in the department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland and a Board Recognized Specialist in Fluency Disorders.
Speech-language pathologists interested in attending a Stuttering Foundation workshop, click here. People who stutter looking for a speech-language pathologist, check out the Foundation’s referral list.
If you have attended a Stuttering Foundation workshop and want to stay in touch with other participants, check out this SFAWorkshopAlumni Yahoo group administered by past StutterTalk guest Voon Pang.
Jay Jones Doyle joins Roisn McManus to discuss stuttering, his career and much more for this first installment of Roisin’s Going After It series – a StutterTalk series about ambition, success and stuttering.
JAY JONES DOYLE, hailing from Montreal, Canada, is currently working as an intern at the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. He is a recent recipient of a Masters of Science in Business Administration from the John Molson School of Business, where he was the President of the Business Graduate Students’ Association. He appeared on StutterTalk episode 136.
Roisin can be contacted at roisin@stuttertalk.com and can be heard on StutterTalk B Team episodes.
Britni Bicknaver joins Peter Reitzes to discuss the 29th Annual Conference of the National Stuttering Association (NSA) in St. Petersburg, Florida.
BRITNI BICKNAVER is 29 years old, a person who stutters and an artist and bartender who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Britni is a new member of the Cincinnati chapter of the National Stuttering Association.
During this episode Britni discusses the excitement and overwhelming experience of meeting hundreds of people who stutter for the first time. Britni also discusses some special conference moments and attending the conference with her 16-year-old cousin.
Courtney Luckman joins Peter Reitzes to discuss the 29th Annual Conference of the National Stuttering Association (NSA) in St. Petersburg, Florida.
COURTNEY LUCKMAN is a person who stutters, a student at the University of Virginian and recently started a local chapter of the National Stuttering Association, a self help organization, in Charlottesville, VA.
During this episode Courtney discusses advertising stuttering, conference workshops, spending time socially with NSA members, how the NSA annual conference surpassed her expectations and much more.
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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