Loryn McGill

23 Mar 2020

How to Keep Social in a Quarantined World (Ep. 675)

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Loryn and Reuben

Loryn McGil joins Reuben Schuff to discus social communication and how to keep social and be productive with stuttering in a quarantined world. 

Loryn McGill M.S. CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist who specializes in treating people who stutter in her private practice, OC Fluency Center located in Costa Mesa, California.  She is adjunct faculty at Chapman University where she teaches the graduate course in fluency disorders.  She is the co-developer of the Childhood Stuttering Screening for Physicians (CSS-P) and involved with various stuttering self-help organizations. 

Reuben Schuff is a person who stutters, aerospace engineer, juggler, traveler and speaker. He lives in Los Angeles and actively participates with the stuttering community, including NSA, FRIENDS, and the StutterTalk Podcast. He believes that communication is intended to be a joyful part of the journey and works to spread this message through workshops, writing and speaking.

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3 Nov 2018

Camp SAY West Coast (Ep. 658)

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Camp SAY West Coast

Taro Alexander and Loryn McGill join Reuben Schuff to discuss Camp SAY West Coast. SAY is the Stuttering Association for the Young.

Taro Alexander, SAY’s Founder & President, created and heads all SAY programs since the organization’s inception in 2001. Taro established Camp SAY in 2008, and in addition to camp, Taro has led SAY’s Confident Voices program, teaching writing, dance, acting, directing, and music to children, 8-18. Taro has directed more than 1,000 original plays with music written and performed by kids who stutter. Prior to SAY, Taro worked as a professional actor, and was a cast member of STOMP. Taro enjoys spending time with his family – his talented wife Leigh, and their three children.

Loryn McGill, M.S. CCC-SLP, was one of the Camp SAY West Coast 2018 Leadership coordinators and is a speech-language pathologist and founder of her private practice OC Fluency Center. Additionally she is faculty at Chapman University as well as part of a multidisciplinary team at UC Riverside working on stuttering. She presents and organizes one-day conferences for FRIENDS, speaks at national and international workshops on stuttering, is a NSA family chapter co-leader, and educates school districts on stuttering intervention. When she is not chasing around her toddler, she can be found snowboarding and sailing.

Reuben Schuff is an author and roving host for StutterTalk. By profession and passion he is an aerospace engineer, and also, a traveler, a juggler, a Toastmaster, and a person who stutters. He is a workshop presenter for the National Stuttering Association annual conference and is the co-founder of the Raleigh Teens Who Stutter (TWST) chapter of the NSA. Reuben also facilitates and presents with FRIENDS: the National Organization for Young People who Stutter. Reuben is author of the chapter Fluency: My Untrustworthy Friend in the StutterTalk book: Stuttering: Inspiring Stories and Professional Wisdom.

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20 Mar 2016

“It was just so nice to be me today” (Ep. 572)

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FRIENDS2016OrangeCountyNora O’Connor and Loryn McGill join Reuben Schuff at the FRIENDS one day workshop in Orange County, California to discuss coming together in a community where it is okay to stutter and where stuttering is accepted. People who stutter, parents, siblings, speech-language pathologists and students joined forces for this wonderful one day conference. One teenager from the day’s workshop was reported to say, “It was so nice just to be me today.” McGill, O’Connor and Schuff discuss how such events help reduce the isolation of stuttering and instill confidence.

Nora O’Connor, LCWS, earned her Master’s in Social Work from San Francisco State University.  She has been involved in the stuttering self-help community for 20 years.  Nora co-chaired the 2004 FREINDS national conference in San Francisco. In her private practice, she treats people with who stutter, focusing on the emotional response to the disorder. Nora is an adviser to StutterTalk and author of the chapter Substance Abuse and Stuttering in the book Stuttering: Inspiring Stories and Professional Wisdom, published by StutterTalk.

Loryn McGill, M.S. CCC-SLP, is a Speech-Language Pathologist who is faculty at Chapman University in Orange, California. She’s in private practice, in Costa Mesa, exclusively working with people who stutter. Loryn has been involved with research, examining the use of medical intervention in stuttering and is currently involved in international research examining intervention in young children who stutter. She is passionate about her work with FRIENDS.

Loryn and Nora work collaboratively to provide comprehensive treatment to people who stutter. They are presenting at CSHA conference on Self Advocacy: SLPs and Social Workers working together. Loryn and Nora are developing a Cognitive Behavioral Treatment and Mindfulness workbook for SLPs to use with people who stutter.

Reuben Schuff is an author and roving host for StutterTalk. By profession and passion he is an aerospace engineer, and also, a traveler, a juggler, a Toastmaster, and a person who stutters. He is a workshop presenter for the National Stuttering Association (NSA) annual conference and is the co-founder of the Raleigh Teens Who Stutter (TWST) chapter of the NSA. Reuben also facilitates and presents with FRIENDS (the National Organization for Young People who Stutter). Reuben is author of Fluency: My Untrustworthy Friend in the StutterTalk book: Stuttering: Inspiring Stories and Professional Wisdom. 

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