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Serious Concerns about Speech Therapy for People Who Stutter in the Public Schools (Ep. 484)

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Taro Alexander joins Peter Reitzes to discuss serious concerns about speech therapy for people who stutter in the public schools. Mr. Alexander is asked about a very upsetting presentation he recently attended in the schools in which speech-language pathologists were “trained” to encourage students to change words, to use starter or filler sounds sounds such as “um” to postpone stuttering and shown to use words like “yucky” when discussing stuttering and speech tools with students.

TARO ALEXANDER, is Founder and Director of SAY: The Stuttering Association for the Young, formerly Our Time. Mr. Alexander founded SAY 14 years ago. He is an accomplished performer, teacher, and director who has stuttered since the age of five. SAY is guided by the belief that a young person who stutters has a voice that matters and it is a voice that deserves to be heard. SAY’s programming includes their Building Confident Voices programs after school and on weekends, speech therapy and an annual summer camp in North Carolina.

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    Story Time: How I Got to Now (Ep. 482)

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    Taro Alexander joins Peter Reitzes for this Story Time episode to discuss How I Got to Now.

    Story Time is a new kind of StutterTalk episode in which the host “gets out of the way” while the guest tells his or her story.

    TARO ALEXANDER, is Founder and Director of SAY: The Stuttering Association for the Young, formerly Our Time. Mr. Alexander founded SAY 14 years ago. He is an accomplished performer, teacher, and director who has stuttered since the age of five. SAY is guided by the belief that a young person who stutters has a voice that matters and it is a voice that deserves to be heard. SAY’s programming includes their Building Confident Voices programs after school and on weekends, speech therapy and an annual summer camp in North Carolina.

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      SAY: The Stuttering Association for the Young (Ep. 445)

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      SAYTaro Alexander joins Peter Reitzes to discuss SAY: The Stuttering Association for the Young. Mr. Alexander also discusses what he has done and continues to do to face stuttering.

      During today’s episode Taro shared, “We are here to help you say the things that shouldn’t go unsaid. I think that can be the real tragedy of stuttering. When you see kids not saying what they want and keeping all these things inside.”

      TARO ALEXANDER, is Founder and Director of SAY: The Stuttering Association for the Young, formerly Our Time. Mr. Alexander founded SAY 13 years ago. He is an accomplished performer, teacher, and director who has stuttered since the age of five.

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        Bike/Hike 670: Raising Stuttering Awareness and Funds for Camp Our Time (Ep. 415)

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        stuttering, StutterTalkCorey Caporale joins Peter Reitzes to discuss Bike/Hike 670 which is raising both stuttering awareness and funds for Camp Our Time scholarships. Corey has embarked upon a 670 mile biking and hiking adventure from Chicago, Illinois, to Camp Our Time, in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

        COREY CAPORALE serves on Our Time Theatre’s Board of Directors, created Bike/Hike 670 which is a fundraising initiative for Camp Our Time scholarships, and works and lives in Chicago with his wife and two kids. Corey is a person who stutters and over time has learned to embrace his speech rather than fight it.

        During this episode, Peter mentions Stutter Across America which was “a mobile stuttering awareness tour and mobile support group” that facilitated 8 workshops in 2002 across the United States. Peter was one of the co-faciltators.

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          Our Time: Arts, Speech Therapy and Exciting New Programs (Ep. 407)

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          Taro Alexander and Caryn Herring join Peter Reitzes to discuss the programming at Our Time. Our Time is a highly respected organization which has been helping kids who stutter since 2001. Taro and Caryn are asked about Our Time’s services which includes arts programs, a summer camp in North Carolina, speech therapy and the October 2013 planned launch of new programs in Westchester, Long Island and New Jersey.

          TARO ALEXANDER, Founder and Director of Our Time, is an accomplished performer, teacher, and director who has stuttered since the age of five.

          CARYN HERRING is a person who stutters, Our Time’s resident Speech-Language Pathologist and hosts the StutterTalk B Team with Joel Korte and Roisin McManus.

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            Camp Our Time Wrap Up with Caryn and Joel (363)

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            CARYN HERRING and JOEL KORTE (of the “Stuttertalk B Team”) discuss stuttering and their recent experiences at Camp Our Time.  This is the final of three episodes Caryn and Joel recorded about camp. Joel was a camp counselor during the 10 day sleep away camp and Caryn’s duties centered around her work as Our Time’s resident Speech-Language Pathologist.  They discuss the absence of shame associated with stuttering at camp, the changes the kids experience at camp, and the camp’s ability to allow people to be themselves.

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              The Awesomeness of Camp Our Time (359)

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              Caryn Herring and Joel Korte are at Camp Our Time and are joined by Dylan Reid and Danny Litwack to discuss stuttering fun, the camp and much more.

              CARYN HERRING and JOEL KORTE (of the “Stuttertalk B Team”) discuss the awesomeness of Camp Our Time and are later joined by DYLAN REID, DANNY LITWACK and others. This episode offers a “behind the scenes” peak at Camp Our Time and StutterTalk while the staff eagerly awaits the arrival of the children and teens.This is the first episode of hopefully several that Joel and Caryn are recording from Camp Our Time. Join the conversation at the StutterTalk Facebook page or Send a voice message.

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                Camp Our Time: Stuttering Brings Courage (296)

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                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.

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                  Stuttering: The Gift of Empathy (294)

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                  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).

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                    Camp Our Time: Stuttering, Courage and Respect (Ep. 293)

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                    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.

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