Joel is asked to discuss doing vs. not doing, caring vs. not caring and much more.
JOEL KORTE is a person who stutters, a B Team host, and attends a masters program for Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Minnesota on a part-time basis and currently works as a design engineer for ZVEX Effects.
Reuben Schuff joins Peter Reitzes to discuss his recently published chapter titled Fluency: My Untrustworthy Friend in the new StutterTalk book: Stuttering: Inspiring Stories and Professional Wisdom. Reuben is asked about fluency vs. effective communication, struggled stuttering vs. forward moving stuttering, putting himself in challenging speaking situations and much more.
Reuben Schuff is an Aerospace Engineer. Reuben founded (with Rita Thurman) a Teens Who Stutter (TWST) chapter of the National Stuttering Association (NSA) in Raleigh, North Carolina. Reuben is also a past local chapter leader of the NSA.
Ms. Kisha Fowlkes, a parent attending the FRIENDS stuttering convention with her 10-year-old son Kyle, joins Peter Reitzes to discuss stuttering, convention highlights and to update listeners on how conference participants are coping with the shooting tragedy in Colorado.
Ms. Fowlkes is attending the 15 annual convention of FRIENDS: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter. Ms. Fowlkes explains that she is attending the convention to help her son who stutters transition from elementary to middle school in a productive way and to learn more about stuttering.
This year’s convention is being held in Denver, Colorado. A gunman shot and killed 12 people in a nearby Aurora, Colorado movie theater. One of the people wounded, but not killed, is Gage Hankins who is attending the convention. Ms. Fowlkes updates listeners about how convention participants are coping with this tragedy.
Danny Murphy and Meghan Walton join Peter Reitzes to discuss a terrible tragedy which has touched the stuttering community and a brave response.
DANNY MURPHY and MEGHAN WALTON are both attending their 15 consecutive conferences of FRIENDS: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter. This year’s conference is being held in Denver, Colorado. A gunman shot and killed 12 people in a nearby Aurora, Colorado movie theater. One of the people wounded, but not killed, is Gage Hankins, 18 of Ohio, who is attending the FRIENDS convention.
Meghan was sitting next to Gage in the theater and provides a firsthand account of the event. Danny discusses how the tragedy has affected him and others attending the conference. Meghan explains how after being shot, Gage asked the paramedics to help others before
Mitchell Trichon, Ph.D. joins Peter Reitzes to discuss a terrible tragedy which has touched the stuttering community.
Dr. Trichon is attending the 15th Annual convention of FRIENDS: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter going on now in Denver, Colorado. A gunman shot and killed 12 people in a nearby Aurora, Colorado movie theater.
One of the people wounded, but not killed, was Gage Hankins, 18 of Ohio, who was attending the FRIENDS convention. Today on the podcast Mitch takes a few minutes away from the workshops to discuss this tragedy and the feeling at the conference.
Stuttering Foundation presenters Dr. Joseph Donaher and Vivian Sisskin and workshop participants join Peter Reitzes to discuss the Foundation’s weeklong workshop for speech-language pathologists, Treating Children and Adolescents Who Stutter, held this past week in Philadelphia.
Presenters Donaher and Sisskin are joined by workshop participants Beth Brant, Gail Dunn and Amanda Wells. Participants discuss the confidence, knowledge and skills they gained. Participants also discuss their great appreciation for the Foundation’s focus on current research and evidence and their problem solving approach to individualized speech therapy.
JOSEPH DONAHER, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, coordinates the Stuttering Program at the Center for Childhood Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is a Board Recognized Specialist in Fluency Disorders and is the presenter in the Stuttering Foundation’s new film titled ADHD & Children Who Stutter.
VIVIAN SISSKIN, M.S., CCC-SLP, is an instructor and clinical supervisor in the department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland and a Board Recognized Specialist in Fluency Disorders.
Speech-language pathologists interested in attending a Stuttering Foundation workshop, click here. People who stutter looking for a speech-language pathologist, check out the Foundation’s referral list.
If you have attended a Stuttering Foundation workshop and want to stay in touch with other participants, check out this SFAWorkshopAlumni Yahoo group administered by past StutterTalk guest Voon Pang.
StutterTalk® is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to talking openly about stuttering. StutterTalk is the first and longest running podcast on stuttering. Since 2007 we have published more than 700 podcasts which are heard in 180 countries.
9 Sep 2012
Caring vs. Not Caring and Doing vs. Not Doing (364)
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Joel Korte joins Peter Reitzes to discuss his recently published chapter titled Current Struggles: The Paradoxes of Stuttering in the new StutterTalk book: Stuttering: Inspiring Stories and Professional Wisdom.
Joel is asked to discuss doing vs. not doing, caring vs. not caring and much more.
JOEL KORTE is a person who stutters, a B Team host, and attends a masters program for Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Minnesota on a part-time basis and currently works as a design engineer for ZVEX Effects.