Stuttering Foundation

12 Feb 2017

Finding Love When You Stutter (Ep. 612)

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Emily Anderson

Jane Fraser and Emily Anderson join Peter Reitzes to discuss finding love when you stutter. Ms. Anderson shares her experience as a young woman who stutters who is challenging herself to face stuttering professionally and personally. Ms. Fraser, President of the Stuttering Foundation, draws upon her decades of experience to discuss productive ways to face stuttering.

Emily Anderson is an Environmental Outreach Coordinator for a conservation nonprofit organization and also works as a server at a steakhouse, a job she has held for almost ten years. She is the author of the article Seeing the Gift in My Stutter on Good and Bad Days recently published in the Mighty.

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Jane Fraser, President, Stuttering Foundation

Jane Fraser is president of The Stuttering Foundation, has run the Foundation for more than 35 years, and is co-author of If Your Child Stutters: A Guide for Parents now in its 8th edition.

Stuttering Foundation inks discussed on this episode:

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27 Aug 2013

On the Frontline with The Stuttering Foundation (Ep. 418)

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TheTeacherWhoMadeADifferenceJane Fraser joins Peter Reitzes to discuss the Stuttering Foundation’s new book The Teacher Who Made a Difference. Jane is asked about the Stuttering Foundation’s ambitious new initiative to provide pediatricians with copies of the Foundation’s just published 16 minute DVD titled 7 Tips for Talking with the Child Who Stutters (watch the video below).

JANE FRASER is president of The Stuttering Foundation, has run the Foundation for more than 30 years and is co-author of If Your Child Stutters: A Guide for Parents now in its 8th edition. Ms. Fraser’s StutterTalk interviews are archived here.

Yesterday, The Stuttering Foundation published this press release – A Blunder from Down Under: Stuttering Foundation Warns Parents Not To Be Misled By Headlines Surrounding Australian Study on Preschoolers’ Stuttering.

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17 Jul 2012

Gaining Confidence with the Stuttering Foundation (350)

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front: Vivian Sisskin, Dr. Lisa Scott, Jane Fraser, Dr. Joseph Donaher

Stuttering Foundation presenters Dr. Joseph Donaher and Vivian Sisskin and workshop participants join Peter Reitzes to discuss the Foundation’s weeklong workshop for speech-language pathologists, Treating Children and Adolescents Who Stutter, held this past week in Philadelphia.

Presenters Donaher and Sisskin are joined by workshop participants Beth Brant, Gail Dunn and Amanda Wells. Participants discuss the confidence, knowledge and skills they gained. Participants also discuss their great appreciation for the Foundation’s focus on current research and evidence and their problem solving approach to individualized speech therapy.

JOSEPH DONAHER, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, coordinates the Stuttering Program at the Center for Childhood Communication at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is a Board Recognized Specialist in Fluency Disorders and is the presenter in the Stuttering Foundation’s new film titled ADHD & Children Who Stutter.

VIVIAN SISSKIN, M.S., CCC-SLP, is an instructor and clinical supervisor in the department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland and a Board Recognized Specialist in Fluency Disorders.

Speech-language pathologists interested in attending a Stuttering Foundation workshop, click here. People who stutter looking for a speech-language pathologist, check out the Foundation’s referral list.

If you have attended a Stuttering Foundation workshop and want to stay in touch with other participants, check out this SFAWorkshopAlumni Yahoo group administered by past StutterTalk guest Voon Pang.

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8 Apr 2012

Celebrating the Stuttering Foundation’s 65th Anniversary (328)

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Jane Fraser, President of the Stuttering Foundation, joins Peter Reitzes to celebrate the Foundation’s 65th anniversary and to discuss the Foundation’s past, present and future.

Jane Fraser is president of The Stuttering Foundation, has run the Foundation for more than 30 years and is co-author of If Your Child Stutters : A Guide for Parents now in its 8th edition. Ms. Fraser is asked to discuss some of her favorite Foundation materials, the Foundation’s Workshops for professionals, how technology has helped the Foundation reach the public, how the King’s Speech has changed the stuttering landscape, will the Foundation publish materials on Lidcombe treatment and much, much more.

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16 Sep 2010

Touching the Hot Stove: Remembering Malcolm Fraser with Jane Fraser (Episode 229)

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Jane Fraser, President of the Stuttering Foundation, joins Peter Reitzes to discuss Self-Therapy for the Stutterer by Malcolm Fraser. Ms. Fraser is asked about the history of the Stuttering Foundation, past leaders in the field including Charles Van Riper and Hal Starbuck, some of her favorite Stuttering Foundation materials and much more.

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