13 Oct 2019
Stamma Campaign: Smashing Stuttering Stereotypes (Ep. 668)
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Jane Powell joins Chaya Goldstein to discuss smashing stuttering stereotypes.
Jane Powell is the CEO of the British Stammering Association (BSA), a post which she took up in 2018. Prior to this she founded the national UK charity CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably, a multi-award winning charity dedicated to reducing male suicide in the U.K. Jane ran this campaign from 2006-2017. Since becoming CEO of the BSA Jane has launched the Stamma Campaign, a campaign dedicated to smashing the stereotypes abut stuttering and changing the narrative of what it means to be a person who stutters.
Links:
- The British Stammering Association smashes stereotypes with Stamma campaign
- Stammering Is Still The Unacceptable Face of Disability
- Third Sector Podcast #8: Leadership
2 Dec 2019
Stammer Time: Building a Society that Accepts Stuttering (Ep. 670)
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Journalist Barry Yeoman
Barry Yeoman joins Chaya Goldstein to talk about his thought provoking article Stammer Time which highlights how stutterers are moving past the medical model of disability. The conversation explores the social model vs. medical model of disability, the concept of ‘stutter gain’, the history of the stuttering self-community, how we can practically start make changes to create a more stutter friendly world, and why he’s excited about the recent conversation in stuttering community about the social model of disability.
Barry Yeoman is a freelance journalist living in Durham, North Carolina. He also teaches journalism and narrative nonfiction at Wake Forest University and Duke University. He has been a member of the stuttering self-help movement since 1992.