14 Aug 2011

Camp Our Time: Stuttering, Courage and Respect (Ep. 293)

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During today’s episode StutterTalk reports on the amazing work being done at Camp Our Time and then ends with an interview about stuttering and Our Time featuring three teens from the camp.
During the first half of today’s episode, StutterTalk presents the sounds, songs and voices of Camp Our Time and speaks with several of the campers and with Taro Alexander who is the founder and director of Camp Our Time and the Our Time Theatre Company. Our Time is dedicated to children and teens who stutter. Listeners will hear the inspiring and supportive sounds of campers rock climbing and the talented, gifted and supportive sounds of Everett Bradley, musical director, and Carl Danielsen, associate musical director, helping children to turn their musical ideas into songs. StutterTalk also presents the sounds of children writing plays and so much more.

During the second half of today’s show, Peter Reitzes and B Team host and Camp Our Time counselor Caryn Herring (left) sit down and speak with three campers – Miles (age 15), Claire (17; middle) and Chloe (14). We discuss their favorite activities at Camp Our Time, stuttering and acceptance, eye contact, support and so much more. Claire and Chloe discuss being siblings and Chloe, who does not stutter, discusses what she has learned about stuttering and her sister at Camp Our Time. And of course, Peter and Caryn ask Miles and Claire the classic StutterTalk question – Would you take a pill to cure your stuttering? And, as a nice twist, we ask Chloe, Would you take a pill to become a stutterer for one year? This is the first of three episodes StutterTalk is publishing on Camp Our Time.

StutterTalk would like to thank Taro Alexander, Kristine Stolakis, Michelle Summers, Caryn Herring and everyone else at Camp Our Time for the incredible work that they do and for making this episode of StutterTalk possible. Listeners may want to check out this StutterTalk interview with Taro Alexander in which Taro reviews the wonderful film the King’s Speech.

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7 Aug 2011

Stuttering Across the Globe: Israel (292)

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Uri Schneider, a speech-language pathologist in New York and Israel, and Ari Gershonovitch, a person who stutters in Israel, join Peter Reitzes to discuss stuttering issues in Israel. This is StutterTalk’s first episode in a new, occasional series we are calling Stuttering Across the Globe.

URI SCHNEIDER M.A. CCC-SLP is a partner in Schneider Speech Pathology who splits his time between New York and Israel.

ARI GERSHONOVITCH is a person who stutters, with a B.TECH degree in computer science. Ari was born in Uruguay and when he was 4 years old he moved to Israel.

During today’s episode we discuss many topics including stuttering in Israel, facing stuttering related fears, speaking patterns in Yeshivas and in the religious community, stuttering and military service, an article by Ruth Ezrati-Vinacour and Nitza Weinstein titled “A dialouge among various cultures and its manifestation in stuttering therapy” currently in-press at the Journal of Fluency Disorders and a chapter in Advice to Those Who Stutter by Margaret Rainey which discusses stuttering in Israel and much more.

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24 Jul 2011

Stuttering: A World Away from the Authorities (290)

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Peter and Barry

Journalist Barry Yeoman joins Peter Reitzesto discuss stuttering, his radio documentaries and teaching, body image, attending the 9th World Congress for People who Stutter in Buenos Aires in May 2011, the dance and movement workshops he attended at the conference, his radio documentary on Hurricane Katrina and much more.

Barry Yeoman (barryyeoman.com) is an investigate journalist, a contributing editor for AARP Magazine (the highest-circulation magazine in the United States) and a radio documentarian. Barry is also an often called upon member of the StutterTalk Advisory Council.

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17 Jul 2011

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

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Officer Phil Peet

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

Officer Phil Peet is speaking from his own experience on today’s episode and does not represent the Orlando Police Department. Officer PHIL PEET is a chemical weapons specialist with 13 years of experience with the Orlando Police Department and is a person who stutters. During today’s episode Officer Peet comments on the reassignment of Officer Ken Parson (discussed on StutterTalk episode 288). Today’s topics include transfer and reassignment policies, stuttering on the job,  fitness for duty evaluations on the force, meeting job descriptions, written policies and the culture of a department, accommodations, medical discharges, basic functions of the job and  much more.

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15 Jul 2011

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

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Ken Parson

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.

Today’s episode concerns the allegation of Monroe, Ohio police officer Kenneth Parson, who stutters, that he has been treated poorly because of his stuttering, and that his police department should accommodate his stuttering by transferring him from his road patrol assignment to a permanent detective position. During this episode Officer Parson states that while he believes his stuttering may put him in danger while on road patrol assignment, his stuttering is an advantage on detective assignment. In a few days StutterTalk will post a companion episode to this one in which we speak with a police officer who stutters from a different department to get his feedback and commentary on this situation. So check back at StutterTalk.com for more on this story.

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9 Jul 2011

Don’t Ever Apologize for How You Speak and After the Lowest Point Things Get Better (287)

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Roisin, Joel and Caryn

BOB “the Expert” QUESAL and ALINA DAVIS join the B Team (pictured below) from the annual National Stuttering Association (NSA) conference in Fort Worth, Texas. This is the B Team’s third and final episode from the conference – it was recorded and posted on July 9th 2011.

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