13 Mar 2011
Joel Sings about Stuttering and the B Team Discuss Clinical Supervisors Concerned about Stuttering (267)
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Welcome to the March B Team episode at StutterTalk. All B Team shows are archived here for your listening enjoyment.
Caryn Herring, Joel Korte and Roisin McManus (the Stuttertalk “B Team”) have submitted their March episode, and as usual, it’s an eclectic mix of stuttering related topics. First, Joel plays a recording of “I’ll Get By” a song that he and his band Ghost Towns of the West wrote about stuttering. The song is available as a free download at www.chaseblissrecords.tumblr.com. During the second half of today’s show they discuss speech-language pathologists who stutter, graduate students who stutter and the challenges they face. This is the second show in the current StutterTalk series on clinicians who stutter. The first show in the series is Speech-Language Pathologists Who Stutter – The Graduate School Experience (Episode 266).
21 Mar 2011
When Fluency and Speech Tools Become Avoidance (268)
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Natalie Bragan joins Peter Reitzes to discuss her life as a person who stutters, covert stuttering, speech therapy, her interest in trying voluntary stuttering, stuttering accomplices, how faith has supported her in life and with stuttering, how stuttering and avoidance can be tiring, her great appreciation of the recent B Team episode and much more.
NATALIE BRAGAN graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Maine in Orono in May 2008 and is currently working as a Staff Accountant for the State of Maine. Ms. Bragen is an active member, treasurer, and song leader of her church in Newport, ME, married in June of 2008 and started her job with the state in the same month.
Natalie has recently been attending monthly meetings of the Maine Chapter of the National Stuttering Association (NSA) lead by Marybeth Allen, M.A., CCC- SLP. For more information on the Maine NSA chapter, contact Ms. Allen at mbslp@roadrunner.com.
During the show Natalie shares that speech tools have helped her greatly reduce stuttering behaviors, but accepting her own stuttering is still a major challenge. Natalie discusses three speakings strategies she uses: slowing down (pausing), enunciation and being conscious of how the articulators are moving.