30 Oct 2016
You Don’t Need to Be Fluent (Ep. 602)
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Dori Holte joins Peter Reitzes for a lively discussion of her book Voice Unearthed: Hope, Help and a Wake Up Call for the Parents of Children Who Stutter.
But first, Jesse VanderWeide comes on air so Peter can thank him for hosting a fundraiser for StutterTalk. Jesse shares how StutterTalk has taught him that “you don’t need to be fluent” and discusses how StutterTalk has provided him a “sense of peace.”
Doreen Lenz Holte is a professional writer, the mother of a child who stutters, a contributor at DidIStutter and the author of Voice Unearthed.
Jesse VanderWeide is a person who stutters and lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A lifelong musician, he teaches private guitar and drum lessons at Schmitt Music in Sioux Falls.
Links:
- Fact Checking Voice Unearthed (StutterTalk Ep. 601)
- The Monster Study (StutterTalk Ep. 280)
- Listen to Those Voices – Episode 136 of the Make Room for The Stuttering Podcast
- 2004 National Stuttering Association List of Workshops
- Classroom Presentation from the National Stuttering Association
- Voice Unearthed blog
- StutterTalk Costal Breathing Series
13 Nov 2016
Hipster Stuttering: What Should We Call Stuttering? (Ep. 603)
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Robert Dellinger joins Peter Reitzes to discuss what should we call fluency and what should we call stuttering?
Other topics include the challenge of explaining the full experience of stuttering to others, how stuttering more (not less) may be a sign of progress and success for some, the power of meeting other people who stutter, Rob’s love/hate relationship with fluency, comparing stuttering treatment to conversation therapy. feeling oppressed and misunderstood by well meaning people in speech therapy and disability rights and much more.
Robert Dellinger, M.S., CCC-SLP is a school-based speech-language pathologist in Raleigh, N.C., and a person who stutters. He works in an elementary school and consults with colleagues in complicated fluency disorders cases at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Rob is an active member of the National Stuttering Association chapter in Raleigh and contributes to the local Teens Who Stutter (TWST) group.
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