7 Aug 2011
Stuttering Across the Globe: Israel (292)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS
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.
27 Jun 2019
Don’t Be Alone with Your Stutter: Stuttering in Israel (Ep. 663)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS
Hanan Hurwitz
Hanan Hurwitz joins Chaya Goldstein to discuss Israel’s strong stuttering support network and the negative use of the term stuttering in politics to wrongly suggest that a candidate is weak and ineffectual. Mr. Hurwitz explained the importance of speaking to the media, teachers, speech-language pathologists, and the general public about Israel to educate and clarify misperceptions.
This episode was recorded in Hveragerdi, Iecland at the Embrace Your Stutter World Congress.
Hanan Hurwitz is an Electronics Engineer working as Director of Quality at a global company that designs and manufactures electronic servo controls. Hanan is also a person who stutters, has stuttered since childhood, and is presently the chair of the Israeli Stuttering Association, AMBI. Visit AMBI on Facebook here.