Tiffani Kittilstved is a Speech-Language Pathologist, PhD student, and a person who stutters. She lives in Seattle, Washington and is actively involved with the NSA and Friends, leading the NSA Bellevue Adult Chapter, the Seattle Family Chapter, and serving as an RCC for the NSA nationally, and organizing regional Friends conferences annually. Tiffani loves meeting people who stutter and believes that connecting with others who share similar stories and experiences can be not only meaningful but also healing.
Reuben Schuff is a person who stutters, aerospace engineer, juggler, traveler and speaker. He lives in Los Angeles and actively participates with the stuttering community, including NSA, FRIENDS, and the StutterTalk Podcast. He believes that communication is intended to be a joyful part of the journey and works to spread this message through workshops, writing and speaking.
Sam Gennuso joins Reuben Schuff to discuss being healthy people who stutter.
Sam Gennuso is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and recovery coach, an advocate for difference, and a person who stutters. She specializes in communication evolution and self-care as a radical political statement. She holds masters’ degrees in Clinical Psychology and Communication Studies, which shape her understanding of how people communicate and move through the world. Her background in psychology, the Bhakti yoga tradition, and addiction recovery inform her work as an integrative and holistic therapist. Her work centers around cultivating true self-compassion through healing shame, active recovery from trauma, and uncovering true wishes and dreams by letting our inner voices be as wild as they want to be.
Loryn McGil joins Reuben Schuff to discus social communication and how to keep social and be productive with stuttering in a quarantined world.
Loryn McGill M.S. CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist who specializes in treating people who stutter in her private practice, OC Fluency Center located in Costa Mesa, California.She is adjunct faculty at Chapman University where she teaches the graduate course in fluency disorders.She is the co-developer of the Childhood Stuttering Screening for Physicians (CSS-P) and involved with various stuttering self-help organizations.
Reuben Schuff is a person who stutters, aerospace engineer, juggler, traveler and speaker. He lives in Los Angeles and actively participates with the stuttering community, including NSA, FRIENDS, and the StutterTalk Podcast. He believes that communication is intended to be a joyful part of the journey and works to spread this message through workshops, writing and speaking.
Chris Constantino and Rob Dellinger join Reuben Schuff at the 2019 FRIENDS one day conference in Raleigh, NC to discuss taking control of the “um,” returning choice to the stuttering community, and it is always okay to talk.
Reuben Schuff is an author and roving host for StutterTalk. By profession and passion he is an aerospace engineer, and also, a traveler, a juggler, a Toastmaster, and a person who stutters. He is a workshop presenter for the National Stuttering Association annual conference and is the co-founder of the Raleigh Teens Who Stutter (TWST) chapter of the NSA. Reuben also facilitates and presents with FRIENDS: the National Organization for Young People who Stutter. Reuben is author of the chapter Fluency: My Untrustworthy Friend in the StutterTalk book: Stuttering: Inspiring Stories and Professional Wisdom.
Christopher Constantino is a person who stutters, a speech-language pathologist and earned his Phd in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Memphis in 2018.
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.
Taro Alexander, SAY’s Founder & President, created and heads all SAY programs since the organization’s inception in 2001. Taro established Camp SAY in 2008, and in addition to camp, Taro has led SAY’s Confident Voices program, teaching writing, dance, acting, directing, and music to children, 8-18. Taro has directed more than 1,000 original plays with music written and performed by kids who stutter. Prior to SAY, Taro worked as a professional actor, and was a cast member of STOMP. Taro enjoys spending time with his family – his talented wife Leigh, and their three children.
Loryn McGill, M.S. CCC-SLP, was one of the Camp SAY West Coast 2018 Leadership coordinators and is a speech-language pathologist and founder of her private practice OC Fluency Center. Additionally she is faculty at Chapman University as well as part of a multidisciplinary team at UC Riverside working on stuttering. She presents and organizes one-day conferences for FRIENDS, speaks at national and international workshops on stuttering, is a NSA family chapter co-leader, and educates school districts on stuttering intervention. When she is not chasing around her toddler, she can be found snowboarding and sailing.
Reuben Schuff is an author and roving host for StutterTalk. By profession and passion he is an aerospace engineer, and also, a traveler, a juggler, a Toastmaster, and a person who stutters. He is a workshop presenter for the National Stuttering Association annual conference and is the co-founder of the Raleigh Teens Who Stutter (TWST) chapter of the NSA. Reuben also facilitates and presents with FRIENDS: the National Organization for Young People who Stutter. Reuben is author of the chapter Fluency: My Untrustworthy Friend in the StutterTalk book: Stuttering: Inspiring Stories and Professional Wisdom.
Chaya Goldstein joins Reuben Schuff at the 34th annual National Stuttering Association (NSA) conference in Dallas, Texas. They discuss following your dreams, changing the way the world views stuttering, the importance of stuttering advocacy and much more.
Chaya Goldstein is a PWS, SLP, teacher, dancer, nature-lover, and overall life-enthusiast. She incorporates multi-sensory instruction and movement into her teaching and therapy and engages in mindfulness and meditation. Chaya works as a SLP in a charter school in Queens, NY, and teaches the course on stuttering at Long Island University. She is co-leader of the NSA Midtown Chapter.
Reuben Schuff is an author and roving host for StutterTalk. By profession and passion he is an aerospace engineer, and also, a traveler, a juggler, a Toastmaster, and a person who stutters. He is a workshop presenter for the National Stuttering Association’s annual conference and is the co-founder of the Raleigh Teens Who Stutter (TWST) chapter of the NSA. Reuben also facilitates and presents with FRIENDS (the National Organization for Young People who Stutter). Reuben is author of the chapter Fluency: My Untrustworthy Friend in the StutterTalk book: Stuttering: Inspiring Stories and Professional Wisdom.
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.
6 Apr 2020
Connecting in the Stuttering World (Ep. 682)
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Tiffani Kittilstved joins Reuben Schuff to discuss connecting in the stuttering world.
Ms. Kittilstved reports that 48 chapters of the National Stuttering Association have hosted online meetings with more to come.
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Tiffani Kittilstved is a Speech-Language Pathologist, PhD student, and a person who stutters. She lives in Seattle, Washington and is actively involved with the NSA and Friends, leading the NSA Bellevue Adult Chapter, the Seattle Family Chapter, and serving as an RCC for the NSA nationally, and organizing regional Friends conferences annually. Tiffani loves meeting people who stutter and believes that connecting with others who share similar stories and experiences can be not only meaningful but also healing.
Reuben Schuff is a person who stutters, aerospace engineer, juggler, traveler and speaker. He lives in Los Angeles and actively participates with the stuttering community, including NSA, FRIENDS, and the StutterTalk Podcast. He believes that communication is intended to be a joyful part of the journey and works to spread this message through workshops, writing and speaking.