Jane Fraser, President of the Stuttering Foundation, joins Peter Reitzes to discuss Self-Therapy for the Stutterer by Malcolm Fraser. Ms. Fraser is asked about the history of the Stuttering Foundation, past leaders in the field including Charles Van Riper and Hal Starbuck, some of her favorite Stuttering Foundation materials and much more.
Jared Gilman, a good friend of StutterTalk and staff member of the Brooklyn Law Review, joins Peter Reitzes and Eric Jackson to discuss his first two years in law school, challenging speaking situations such as mock trials, speaking to professors about stuttering and much more.
Charlie Osborne, MA CCC-SLP joins Peter Reitzes and Eric Jackson to discuss the term fluency and a classic book from 1972 by Wendell Johnson and Dorothy Moeller titled Living with Change: The Semantics of Coping. We discuss topics and quotes from Johnson & Moeller including acceptance, success, the importance of language in thinking and working on stuttering, IFD Disease (from Idealism to Frustration to Demoralization), making therapy and the use of speech tools less complicated and so much more.
Charlie Osborne is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin in Stevens Point. He teaches the fluency disorders course and other courses, supervises in clinic, and provides clinical services at St. Michael’s Hospital. Charlie is past editor of the ASHA Division 4 Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders – a peer reviewed journal and has worked with children and adults who stutter for over twenty years.
Robert Quesal PhD, CCC-SLP joins Peter Reitzes and Eric Jackson to discuss numerous stuttering related topics including is fluency shaping more of a liability than stuttering modification, do some speech-language pathologists “give up” on therapy too easily because they are looking at fluency as their measure of change, does the field need to move away from traditional speech tools and choosing a speech-language pathologist.
Dr. Alan Rabinowitz (“the Indiana Jones of Wildlife Conservation”) joins Peter Reitzes and Eric Jackson to discuss his experiences with stuttering and his explorations and legacy in wildlife preservation. Dr. Rabinowitz is an internationally renowned conservationist and zoologist and is President and CEO of Panthera – a nonprofit conservation organization devoted to protecting the world’s 36 wild cat species. Dr. Rabinowitz is also a spokesperson for the Stuttering Foundation.
StutterTalk “B Team” member Joel Korte joins Peter Reitzes and Eric Jackson for this marathon recording in which the guys discuss, and argue about, different issues and problems which may arise when using traditional “speech tools” and when thinking about the process of change in a fixed and rigid manner. The guys also discuss the pros and cons of individual and group therapy, as well as intensive therapy programs.
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.
16 Sep 2010
Touching the Hot Stove: Remembering Malcolm Fraser with Jane Fraser (Episode 229)
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