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30 Jul 2016

The Best Three Days of My Life at FRIENDS (Ep. 590)

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Juliette and Josette Tugander with Caryn Herring

Josette Tugander, a young woman who stutters, and her mother Juliette Tugander join Caryn Herring at the 2016 annual convention of FRIENDS: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter. They discuss taking down stuttering walls and being aware of the walls we build.

Other topics include the power of stuttering support, how people who stutter inspire each other at FRIENDS to be brave with stuttering and the important stuttering moments which happen outside of the workshops at FRIENDS. Josette and Caryn share how helpful it has been seeing peers and role models who stutter face stuttering challenges.

Josette shares the experience of attending a FRIENDS convention when she was in high school and being inspired by a college student who discussed the importance of telling your roommate about stuttering. Now in college herself, Josette shares how open she is about her own stuttering in college and that her friends and roommates are even in the room sometimes during her Skype speech therapy sessions.

The FRIENDS conference takes place July 28-30 in Columbus. Ohio.

Caryn Herring is a person who stutters and a speech-language pathologist, currently pursuing her PhD at The University of Pittsburgh. Caryn is also an adjunct clinical instructor at Duquesne University, supervising graduate students and teaching the Stuttering Course. She is an active member of numerous stuttering organizations.

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30 Jul 2016

The Struggle to Be Okay with Stuttering (Ep. 589)

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Reuben Schuff and Eddie Samp

Eddie Samp joins Reuben Schuff at the 2016 annual convention of FRIENDS: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter. Mr. Samp discusses his lifelong struggle with “being okay with the way I speak” and how FRIENDS has become a second family.

The FRIENDS conference takes place July 28-30 in Columbus. Ohio.

Eddie Samp is a 26 year old person who stutters, lives in Boston, and works in investment management. Eddie has been involved with FRIENDS since he was 7 years old. Mr. Samp returned this year to the FRIENDS convention to reconnect with friends and to give back support to the stuttering community.

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 (NSA) 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.

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29 Jul 2016

What We Gain By Stuttering Freely at the 2016 FRIENDS Convention (Ep. 588)

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Chris Constantino and Mary McLoughlin at FRIENDS

Mary McLoughlin joins Chris Constantino at the 2016 annual convention of FRIENDS: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter to discuss the power of vulnerability, what we gain by stuttering freely and how stuttering leads to intimate and meaningful relationships with other people. Ms. McLoughlin explains that she keeps returning to FRIENDS conventions because “I couldn’t be in better company.”

Other topics include the value of stuttered communication, stuttering freely and openly, meeting people who stutter with confidence and positivity, taking ownership of stuttering, how stuttering voices create spaces for intimacy and vulnerability, using voluntary stuttering to ground communication and much more.

The FRIENDS conference takes place July 28-30 in Columbus, Ohio.

Mary McLoughlin is from Long Island, New York and will be a student at the University of Dayton starting this fall. She plans on majoring in English. This is her third FRIENDS conference.

Christopher Constantino is a person who stutters, a StutterTalk host and a PhD student in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Memphis. Chris is doing his clinical fellowship in the Shelby County Schools in Memphis and is conducting a research study to understand and contextualize the experiences of passing as fluent for people who covertly stutter.

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21 Jul 2016

Taking the Role of a Person Who Stutters (Ep. 586)

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Marcus Peters

Marcus Peters joins Peter Reitzes to discuss the importance of taking the role of a person who stutters. Mr. Peter’s attributes this perspective and phrase to Vivian Sisskin.

Mr. Peters is asked about attending his first National Stuttering Association Conference and a workshop which challenged him to consider the terms “disordered” vs “different.” Other language discussed today includes acceptance, empowered, stuttering pride, fixed and broken, uniqueness, pathology and value. Mr. Peters advocates using language to challenge society to think differently about stuttering. When asked about the process of change, Mr. Peter’s responded, “It’s pretty remarkable how we can change and how we can grow when we start to hope and when we start to look at things from a different perspective.”

Marcus is asked about stuttering being a blessing, how being Nigerian-American and a person of color impacts his stuttering experience, his current goal of advertising stuttering and much more.

Marcus Peters is a person who stutters in Dallas, Texas, an Information Systems Analyst, and a member of the Dallas Chapter of the National Stuttering Association. Mr. Peters holds a degree in Economics from the University of Maryland and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas.

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9 Jul 2016

Freedom to Speak and Freedom to Stutter at the 2016 NSA Conference (Ep. 585)

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Jia Bin with host Christopher Constantino

Jia Bin joins Christopher Constantino today at the Joint Conference of the National Stuttering Association (NSA) and the International Stuttering Association (ISA) in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Bin shares that in China there is a lot of stigma surrounding disabilities and that many people with disabilities, including people who stutter, feel a need to hide their stuttering in academia and in the workforce. Ms. Bin discusses learning to stutter openly in the United States after feeling trapped with stuttering in China.

Ms. Bin shares, “The more you hide the worse it gets. So for years and years I had to hide every day. Every conversation I had to hide. I had to pretend I could talk like everyone else. That’s a lot of struggle for me. It’s like you are pretending you are somebody else your whole life.” Mr. Constantino discusses with Ms. Bin the consequences of choosing open stuttering.

The joint NSA/ISA conference takes place July 6-10, 2016. This is the NSA’s 33rd annual conference.

Jia Bin is a person who stutters from China living in Michigan. Ms. Bin is a high school Chinese Teacher.

Christopher Constantino is a person who stutters, a StutterTalk host and a PhD student in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Memphis. Chris is doing his clinical fellowship in the Shelby County Schools in Memphis and is conducting a research study to understand and contextualize the experiences of passing as fluent for people who covertly stutter.

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6 Jul 2016

Changing My Story: From the NSA’s 2016 Research Symposium (Ep. 584)

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Anthony DiLollo, PhD

Anthony DiLollo joins Reuben Schuff today at the National Stuttering Association’s 2016 Research Symposium to discuss his presentation Talking Back to Stuttering: A Constructivist Approach to Counseling with Persons Who Stutter. Dr. DiLollo discusses how people who stutter have the ability to tell and live a different story. Dr. DiLollo states, “We underestimate how much control we have over the way we think and feel simply by the stories we tell.”

Today’s StutterTalk episode was recorded at the Joint Conference of the National Stuttering Association (NSA) and the International Stuttering Association (ISA) in Atlanta, Georgia, July 6-10, 2016. This is the NSA’s 33rd annual conference.

Anthony DiLollo, PhD, is an associate professor of speech-language pathology at Wichita State University, specializing in counseling, fluency disorders, interpersonal communication, and qualitative research methods. He has worked as a psychologist and as a speech-language pathologist in clinical and educational settings, as well as 13 years in academia.

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 (NSA) 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.

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