Peter Reitzes

28 Aug 2017

Make Friends with Your Stutter (Ep. 626)

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Dr. Frederick Murray, pictured from 2010 on his first StutterTalk appearance

Fred Murray joins Peter Reitzes to discuss the importance of making friends with your stutter and a lifetime of stuttering experience.

Dr. Frederick Murray is a 91 year old person who stutters, a retired speech-language pathologist and retired professor from the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Murray has lectured on stuttering across the globe in English, French and Spanish. Dr. Murray is the author of the highly acclaimed autobiography – A Stutterer’s Story – published by the Stuttering Foundation. Dr. Murray first appeared on StutterTalk in 2010 on episode 218.

The videos embedded below are from Fred’s 2010 StutterTalk appearance.

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12 Aug 2017

Acceptance Has No Finish Line (Ep. 625)

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Cole Oehlers

Cole Oehlers joins Peter Reitzes to discuss a refreshing look at stuttering acceptance, trumpet stuttering, music and stuttering and the future of self help for people who stutter. Mr. Oehlers shares about being bullied as a child and suggests that one helpful response is to provide children who are bullied with older mentors in the schools. Special thanks to Lee Caggiano and FRIENDS for recommending Cole to StutterTalk!

Cole Oehlers is a 22 year old person who stutters from the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Cole is a performing trumpet player and private music teacher. Cole is also an avid deep thinker and has recently began dedicating his time to better understand the state and struggles of the stuttering community. Cole’s plays in the band Trapper Schoepp.

Links to some of Cole’s music:

Links to Announcements: 

  • The first annual Don’t Tell Me to “Slow Down” 5K run/walk will occur on Oct 22nd, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. at Wake Med Soccer Park in Cary, NC to benefit the National Stuttering Association (NSA) and raise awareness about stuttering. You are invited to participate in this important cause on International Stuttering Awareness Day.
  • There is a new public speaking group in the Durham/Raleigh area of North Carolina which focuses on acceptance and decreasing avoidance behaviors rather than fluency.
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29 Jun 2017

Is Anticipating Stuttering Ever Productive? (Ep. 621)

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Richard Arenas, Ph.D.

Richard Arenas joins Peter Reitzes for an unprecedented second consecutive week to discuss if anticipating stuttering can ever be productive, to answer questions submitted by listeners and researchers and to preview his upcoming speech at the National Stuttering Association’s 2017 Research Symposium.

Richard Arenas, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico. His research aims to understand the contextual variability of stuttering, specifically the biological mechanisms that underlie this variability. The goal is to translate research findings in to more effective treatments for stuttering. Dr. Arenas will be speaking this summer at the 2017 National Stuttering Association’s Research Symposium in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Arenas’ presentation will be based on his paper Conceptualizing and investigating the contextual variability of stuttering: The speech and monitoring interaction (SAMI) framework.

Related Episodes:

  • The Anticipation of Stuttering (Ep. 620) with Dr. Richard Arenas
  • Mindfulness in Stuttering Treatment (Ep. 321) with Dr. Michael Boyle

Related Research:

  • Responses of adults who stutter to the anticipation of stuttering (Jackson et. al).
  • Anticipation in stuttering: A theoretical model of the nature of stutter prediction (Garcia-Barrera & Davidow)
  • A preliminary study on the neural oscillatory characteristics of motor preparation prior to dysfluent and fluent utterances in adults who stutter (Mersov et. al)
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24 Jun 2017

The Anticipation of Stuttering (Ep. 620)

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Richard Arenas, Ph.D.

Richard Arenas joins Peter Reitzes to discuss his research on the anticipation of stuttering. Dr. Arenas answers listener questions and is asked about his finding that “stuttering severity was positively correlated with the belief that the anticipation of stuttering increases the likelihood of stuttering.”

Richard Arenas, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico. His research aims to understand the contextual variability of stuttering, specifically the biological mechanisms that underlie this variability. The goal is to translate research findings in to more effective treatments for stuttering. Dr. Arenas will be speaking this summer at the 2017 National Stuttering Association’s Research Symposium in Dallas, Texas on the topic The anticipation of stuttering: Its impact on quality of life and on the speech production process.

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15 Jun 2017

No Apologies: Living with Neurogenic Stuttering (Ep. 619)

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Dr. Melissa Filler

Melissa Fuller joins Peter Reitzes to discuss her experience living with neurogenic stuttering.

Dr. Fuller recently acquired stuttering after a car accident and has pursued a quick path towards stuttering acceptance. On today’s episode Dr. Fuller discusses a range of topics including how family and speech therapy have helped her and how embracing acceptance of same sex relationships has helped her accept stuttering. Dr. Fuller explains that she wants to be an advocate for diversity, that stuttering is okay, you can do anything with a stutter and there is nothing wrong with you for being different.

Melissa Fuller, PhD, LPC, NCC, is a national board certified and licensed professional counselor in Colorado. She has a PhD from Capella University and has been working in the field of neurofeedback. Dr. Fuller’s therapeutic related interests are specific to trauma in kids and survivors of sexual assault. She competes in Ironman competitions, is a bronze All-World Athlete, and an ultra-marathoner. Dr. Fuller will be speaking on a panel this summer at the 20th Annual FRIENDS convention held in Orlando, Florida, July 20-22, 2017.

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17 Apr 2017

Stuttered Prayers (Ep. 617)

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Christopher Constantino, CCC-SLP

Christopher Constantino joins Peter Reitzes to discuss his speaking experiences as a person who stutters who is a member of the Secular Franciscan Order of the Catholic church.

Topics include speaking and stuttering when leading prayers and during confession and grace. Constantino and Reitzes consider issues related to spontaneity of speech, stuttering and “controlling” stuttering.

Christopher Constantino, CCC-SLP, is a person who stutters, a StutterTalk host, and a PhD student in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Memphis. Chris is an ASHA certified, Tennessee licensed, speech-language pathologist at Shelby County Schools in Memphis, TN. His research has sought to understand and contextualize the experiences of passing as fluent for people who covertly stutter. Currently he is studying the subjective experience of stuttering, he is interested in defining and measuring the degree to which communication feels spontaneous, regardless of fluency. Chris’s StutterTalk episodes are known for finding common ground between disability rights and speech-language pathology.

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