Jon Rosenwasser joins Peter Reitzes at the FRIENDS18th annual convention in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mr. Rosenwasser discusses being a parent of a child who stutters, living with stuttering as opposed to coping with stuttering, secondary stuttering behaviors, learning to talk about talking, peeling away the onion of stuttering avoidance, coming from a long line of people who stutter, working on co-occurring cluttering and much more. Mr. Rosenwasser shares how exciting it is for his children who stutter to meet other children who stutter and to experience different types of stuttering.
Jon Rosenwasser works on the U.S Senate Select Committee on Intelligence as Minority Budget Director for the Vice Chairman of the committee, Dianne FeinStein. Mr. Rosenwasser is a person who stutters, the father of two children who stutter and is part of four generations of stuttering in his family.
Grant Siegmund, 14 years old, joins Peter Reitzes at the FRIENDS18th annual convention in Raleigh, North Carolina. Grant has been attending FRIENDS conventions for about five years and stresses how much his confidence has grown as a result.
Jackson Hunter, 20 years old, joins Peter Reitzes at the FRIENDS18th annual convention in Raleigh, North Carolina. Jackson is attending his 7th or 8th FRIENDS Convention and refers to FRIENDS as the most amazing place in the entire world. Jackson discusses the confidence he brings home from FRIENDS which helps him form new relationships.
Emily Purkey joins Peter Reitzes at the FRIENDS18th annual convention in Raleigh, North Carolina. Emily is 16 years old and is attending her first FRIENDS convention. Ms. Purkey discusses the importance of just stuttering over chasing fluency, speech tools being “tricks”, of using stuttering as a social filter, her very positive experience at Camp SAY and much more. Emily observes that society would not ask fluent people to stutter, so why do we ask people who stutter to be fluent. Emily shares how FRIENDS instantly became family to her and that people accept her without judgement.
EvanTotty, a 26 year old PhD student in Economics at Purdue University,joins Peter Reitzes at the FRIENDS18th annual convention in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mr. Totty discusses seeking out pubic speaking opportunities and how helpful it has been for him to embrace the ideas that stuttering is okay and it is okay to be a person who stutters. When asked to share one very meaningful thing he has learned in speech therapy, Evan discussed how much it has helped him to tell others that he stutters when presenting in his field and when student teaching.
Dhruv Gupta joins Peter Reitzes at the FRIENDS18th annual convention in Raleigh, North Carolina and discusses how self help in India resembles the early days of self help in the United States. Mr. Gupta is asked about a crowdsourcing fundraiser he is spearheading titled Support Stammering in India. Dhruv describes this fundraiser as a “one-year focused intervention for people who stammer (PWS) in India of all ages to strengthen self-help groups, create & distribute self-help resources, organize workshops/conferences and enrich current therapeutic practices.”
This is the Indian link to the campaign. Dhruv mentioned this article, Running Self Help Groups/support groups which was adapted from a resource written by Michael Sugarman.
Dhruv Gupta is a sustainability advisor at cBalance, a volunteer with The Indian Stammering Association, and the founder of Speak: Stammering Foundation. Dhruv recently facilitated a two day FRIENDS workshop in India and has appeared a number of times on StutterTalk.
Peter Reitzes, MA, CCC-SLP is a person who stutters, President of StutterTalk, a school based speech-language pathologist and author of His Name is Peter Cottontail: My Story Passing as Fluent in the book Stuttering: Inspiring Stories and Professional Wisdom, published by StutterTalk.
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.
20 Jul 2015
Learning to Talk about Talking at the 2015 FRIENDS Convention (Ep. 545)
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Jon Rosenwasser joins Peter Reitzes at the FRIENDS 18th annual convention in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mr. Rosenwasser discusses being a parent of a child who stutters, living with stuttering as opposed to coping with stuttering, secondary stuttering behaviors, learning to talk about talking, peeling away the onion of stuttering avoidance, coming from a long line of people who stutter, working on co-occurring cluttering and much more. Mr. Rosenwasser shares how exciting it is for his children who stutter to meet other children who stutter and to experience different types of stuttering.
Jon Rosenwasser works on the U.S Senate Select Committee on Intelligence as Minority Budget Director for the Vice Chairman of the committee, Dianne FeinStein. Mr. Rosenwasser is a person who stutters, the father of two children who stutter and is part of four generations of stuttering in his family.