14 Jul 2014
How Much Time Should You Spend Working on Stuttering with Nora O’Connor? (Ep. 461)
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Nora A. O’Connor joins Peter Reitzes to discuss how much time should you spend working on stuttering. Nora discusses what the real goals of speech therapy should be: living a meaningful and self-assured life in which we communicate effectively.
Here is a little background to today’s episode. Recently on StutterTalk, Episode 455, the B Team discussed what they referred to as “the hypothetical (and entirely unrealistic) question, ‘How many hours a day would you put into working on your stuttering if that work guaranteed a cure for your stuttering?’” On today’s episode, we put fluency aside for a moment and ask, How much time a day should you work on acceptance of stuttering, stuttering openly, stuttering differently, educating family and friends about stuttering and being open about stuttering?
NORA A O’CONNOR is a licensed clinical social worker in California, a person who stutters, 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. Nora has been involved locally and nationally with self help organizations for people who stutter for over 15 years. Nora works in private practice where she facilitates a self-esteem therapy group for children and teens who stutter, teaching anxiety management, confidence building and radical acceptance.
During today’s episode, Nora and Peter discuss the Successful Stuttering Management Program (SSMP).
20 Mar 2016
“It was just so nice to be me today” (Ep. 572)
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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.