Kevin Hartford joins Peter Reitzes to discuss how stuttering prevented him from being hired for jobs, but also propelled him to start his own small business and go on to achieve great success. Mr. Hartford is asked about a lifetime of speech therapy, starting his own small business and a recent article about him in the Wall Street Journal.
KEVIN HARTFORD is president of Alle-Kiski Industries in Leechberg PA, a successful machining and fabrication shop, with approximately 40 employees. Mr. Hartford is the father of two sons and is a person who stutters.
Joseph Donaher, Ph.D joins Peter Reitzes to discuss ADHD and stuttering.
StutterTalk is excited to announce that this StutterTalk episode or course will be available for 0.10 CEUs for approximately six months, free of charge, through the National Stuttering Association. For complete details regarding the continuing education units being offered by the National Stuttering Association, go to the National Stuttering Association’s CEU page.
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Show/Course Notes:
Title: ADHD and Stuttering
Objectives: At the conclusion of the program, the learner shall be able to:
Identify various ways in which Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can effect a child’s ability to communicate effectively.
Discuss the literature base regarding stuttering, disfluency and ADHD.
Describe intervention strategies based on specific speech patterns commonly demonstrated by children with ADHD.
Dr. Donaher was asked to analyze and discuss the disfluencies heard in this video featuring a 12 year old child with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Presenter Bio — Joseph Donaher, Ph.D., is the Academic and Research Program Director of the Center for Childhood Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Donaher is an Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology at The University of Pennsylvania. He is a Board Recognized Specialist in Fluency and Fluency Disorders (Board Certified Specialist-Fluency, or BCS-F) and the editor of Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders. Dr. Donaher is the chair of the Research and Publications Committee of The International Fluency Association. His clinical and research interests focus on the assessment and treatment of school-age children who stutter.More
Sergeant Craig Curry joins Peter Reitzes to discuss Christianity, faith and stuttering, working in law enforcement as a person who stutters and his experience with the medical treatment of stuttering. This is the fourth episode in StutterTalk’s series on faith and stuttering.
CRAIG CURRY has stuttered all his life. Mr. Curry has been employed for a California Sheriff’s Office of about 400 employees for 17 years now and has promoted to a Correctional Deputy Sergeant in the jail that houses approximately 700 inmates. Mr. Curry was raised in a church and has been a Christian all my life. He has been to married his high school sweetheart for 27 and has a 21 year old daughter in college.
Phil Schneider, Ed.D. CCC-SLP, joins Peter Reitzes to discuss Moses and stuttering and Judaism and stuttering.
PHIL SCHNEIDER is a Board Recognized Fluency Specialist, an Associate Professor Emeritus of Communication Disorders at Queens College, has been in private practice for more than 35 years, is an adviser to StutterTalk and with Uri Schneider is creator of the films Transcending Stuttering: The Inside Story and Going with the Flow: A Guide to Transcending Stuttering which may be viewed here.
Rabbi Seth Braunstein joins Peter Reitzes to discuss stuttering, faith, religion, Moses, religious texts and related topics.
Rabbi SETH BRAUNSTEIN runs an international program at a Jewish camp in Hungary, Camp Szarvas. He worked for two years as a pulpit rabbi and has traveled extensively working for many Jewish communities around the world. Rabbi Braunstein held the educational directorship for the Yeshiva and University students for the spiritual survival of Russian Jewry in Belarus; coordinated a communal educational empowerment program in Perth, Australia; and directed an outdoor adventure leadership training program at Camp Moshava in the United States.
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30 Jan 2014
When Stuttering is a Gift with Kevin Hartford (Ep. 439)
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Kevin Hartford joins Peter Reitzes to discuss how stuttering prevented him from being hired for jobs, but also propelled him to start his own small business and go on to achieve great success. Mr. Hartford is asked about a lifetime of speech therapy, starting his own small business and a recent article about him in the Wall Street Journal.
KEVIN HARTFORD is president of Alle-Kiski Industries in Leechberg PA, a successful machining and fabrication shop, with approximately 40 employees. Mr. Hartford is the father of two sons and is a person who stutters.
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