Andy Fenwick and Joel Korte join Peter Reitzes to discuss Black Swan Green by the British writer David Mitchell.
Black Swan Green takes place in early 1980s England and is narrated by Jason Taylor, a 13 year old boy who stammers (stutters). One reviewer has referred to Black Swan Green as “Britain’s Catcher in the Rye.” Prominent themes are bullying, being different, divorce and family relationships and underlying all of this is Jason’s stammering.
The author, David Mitchell, is a person who stammers (in Britain, stammering means stuttering). Using the voice of Jason Taylor, Mr. Mitchell has created perhaps the finest fictional account of stuttering , or more to the point, of avoiding stuttering.
Check out this really great blog post titled the Black Swan Green Soundtrack which discusses the music and songs mentioned in the novel.
Andy Fenwick has an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, has published poems & fiction-reviews in numerous literary journals, and is a current contributor of author profiles and novel reviews to Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, 5th edition (Harper Collins).
Joel Korte is a “B Team” co-host, a person who stutters and attends a masters program for Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Minnesota on a part-time basis. He attained his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN in 2007. He currently works as a design engineer for ZVEX Effects, a highly regarded guitar effects pedal company, and is a musician in a Minneapolis based band, Ghost Towns of the West.
Robert Quesal joins Peter Reitzes to answer a listener question on why it seems that speech-language pathologists are trained more in fluency shaping than stuttering modification.
Bob “the Expert” Quesal and Peter share that, like the listener who asked the question, it is their experience that graduate programs in speech-language pathology seem to teach more about fluency shaping than stuttering modification treatment approaches. Bob and Peter discuss the different reasons why some professors may be uncomfortable teaching stuttering modification.
Hayden, Sylvia and Isabel from Camp Our Time join Peter Reitzes and Caryn Herring to share their favorite activities at Camp Our Time, to discuss stuttering, feeling accepted at Camp Our Time and so much more.
This is the third and final episode recorded at Camp Our Time in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Today we speak with three children about Camp Our Time, fun activities, stuttering, making new friends and so much more.
During today’s episode Carl Danielsen joins Peter Reitzes to discuss his experiences with stuttering, Our Time, meeting Taro Alaxander (the director and founder of Our Time) and so much more. This conversation was recorded at Camp Our Time in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
CARL DANIELSEN, an Associate Musical Director for Camp Our Time, has worked as an actor in NYC. Regionally Carl has done A Marvellous Party at Northlight Theatre near Chicago, for which he won a Jeff Award; Cole! for San Jose Rep, Marines Memorial and as part of the LACLO season, winning two Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle awards (one for acting, the other for musical directing) and a Dramalogue award. Other favorite roles include World Goes ‘Round at TheatreWorks in California where he won his second BATCC award as supporting actor; Taming of the Shrew and Oh, Kay! for the SF Shakespeare Festival, winning a third BATTC award for supporting actor and Oedipus Rex at the Denver Theatre Center (where he met Taro Alexander in 1996).
During today’s episode StutterTalk reports on the amazing work being done at Camp Our Time and then ends with an interview about stuttering and Our Time featuring three teens from the camp. During the first half of today’s episode, StutterTalk presents the sounds, songs and voices of Camp Our Time and speaks with several of the campers and with Taro Alexander who is the founder and director of Camp Our Time and the Our Time Theatre Company. Our Time is dedicated to children and teens who stutter. Listeners will hear the inspiring and supportive sounds of campers rock climbing and the talented, gifted and supportive sounds of Everett Bradley, musical director, and Carl Danielsen, associate musical director, helping children to turn their musical ideas into songs. StutterTalk also presents the sounds of children writing plays and so much more.
During the second half of today’s show, Peter Reitzes and B Team host and Camp Our Time counselor Caryn Herring (left) sit down and speak with three campers – Miles (age 15), Claire (17; middle) and Chloe (14). We discuss their favorite activities at Camp Our Time, stuttering and acceptance, eye contact, support and so much more. Claire and Chloe discuss being siblings and Chloe, who does not stutter, discusses what she has learned about stuttering and her sister at Camp Our Time. And of course, Peter and Caryn ask Miles and Claire the classic StutterTalk question – Would you take a pill to cure your stuttering? And, as a nice twist, we ask Chloe, Would you take a pill to become a stutterer for one year? This is the first of three episodes StutterTalk is publishing on Camp Our Time.
StutterTalk would like to thank Taro Alexander, Kristine Stolakis, Michelle Summers, Caryn Herring and everyone else at Camp Our Time for the incredible work that they do and for making this episode of StutterTalk possible. Listeners may want to check out this StutterTalk interview with Taro Alexander in which Taro reviews the wonderful film the King’s Speech.
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.
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.
18 Sep 2011
Black Swan Green and Stuttering (298)
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Andy Fenwick and Joel Korte join Peter Reitzes to discuss Black Swan Green by the British writer David Mitchell.
Black Swan Green takes place in early 1980s England and is narrated by Jason Taylor, a 13 year old boy who stammers (stutters). One reviewer has referred to Black Swan Green as “Britain’s Catcher in the Rye.” Prominent themes are bullying, being different, divorce and family relationships and underlying all of this is Jason’s stammering.
The author, David Mitchell, is a person who stammers (in Britain, stammering means stuttering). Using the voice of Jason Taylor, Mr. Mitchell has created perhaps the finest fictional account of stuttering , or more to the point, of avoiding stuttering.
Check out this really great blog post titled the Black Swan Green Soundtrack which discusses the music and songs mentioned in the novel.
Andy Fenwick has an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, has published poems & fiction-reviews in numerous literary journals, and is a current contributor of author profiles and novel reviews to Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, 5th edition (Harper Collins).
Joel Korte is a “B Team” co-host, a person who stutters and attends a masters program for Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Minnesota on a part-time basis. He attained his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN in 2007. He currently works as a design engineer for ZVEX Effects, a highly regarded guitar effects pedal company, and is a musician in a Minneapolis based band, Ghost Towns of the West.