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24 Jul 2016

The Roller Coaster Ride of Stuttering (Ep. 587)

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stuttering, StutterTalkRoisin McManus, Caryn Herring and Joel Korte of the StutterTalk B Team discuss the roller coaster ride of stuttering.

While Joel and Roisin report not having the “emotional capital” or need to worry about stuttering at the moment, Caryn shares some recent, hard stuttering challenges she is facing. The B Team then discusses the recent National Stuttering Association and International Stuttering Association joint conference and a discussion on wether stuttering should be considered a disorder or a difference.

As always, be sure and stick around until the very end of the episode when Joel shares a story about a news reporter who appeared to uninvite him from a television appearance because of his stuttering.

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.

Roisin McManus lives in New York City and has co-led the Brooklyn Chapter of the National Stuttering Association for the past 5 years. She is an occasional StutterTalk host, was the lead planner of the 20-Something’s Program for the NSA/ISA World Congress in Atlanta 2016 and doesn’t mind being referred to as a “stutterer.” She works as an emergency room nurse and recently graduated from New York University as an acute care & palliative care nurse practitioner.

Joel Korte is an electrical engineer, speech-language pathologist, and a person who stutters. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology in 2013, and earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of St. Thomas in 2007.  Joel is the co-leader of the Minneapolis chapters of both the adult and teen (TWST) support groups through the National Stuttering Association. Joel is the owner of the Chase Bliss Audio, a guitar effects pedal company, and is a musician in a Minneapolis.

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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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20 Jun 2016

Not About Me Without Me (Ep. 583)

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stuttering, StutterTalkBob Quesal and Joe Klein join Peter Reitzes to respond to Joshua St. Pierre’s criticism of the National Stuttering Association (NSA). Pierre’s criticism stems, in part, from a StutterTalk interview with the NSA’s Chairman, Gerald Maguire, titled The Future of the National Stuttering Association. 

Bob, Joe and Peter discuss a number of topics including stuttering, acceptance, treatment, the search for a cure, eugenics, the role of the National Stuttering Association, Did I Stutter?, responses from people who stutter to Josh’s post and much more. In response to Josh’s post and to the work of Did I Stutter?, it is pointed out that the very folks preaching some version of “not about me without me” are perhaps in need of the very same reminder.

Robert Quesal, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a professor emeritus of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Illinois University, a person who stutters, a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and a retired Board Certified Specialist in Fluency and Fluency Disorders.

Joe Klein, Ph.D, CCC-SLP is a person who stutters and an assistant professor in Appalachian State University’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Links:

  • Barry Yeoman’s keynote address from the Past, Present and Future of Stuttering Conference (video/text)
  • Dean William’s A Point of View about Stuttering (abstract/partial view)
  • A Tribute to Dean Williams by Robert Quesal
  • The Construction of the Disabled Speaker: Locating Stuttering in Disability Studies by Joshua St. Pierrre (full text)
  • Stuttering, Activism, Disability, Ableism and Informed Consent (StutterTalk Ep. 483)
  • Honest Speech and Stuttering Hospitably (StutterTalk Ep. 488)
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11 Jun 2016

The Physical Exhaustion of Stuttering (Ep. 582)

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Sarah Berkowitz

Sarah Berkowitz joins Peter Reitzes to discuss the physical exhaustion of stuttering.

This conversation stems from a post Ms. Berkowitz made at Stuttering Arena in which she said, “Does anyone else ever feel physically exhausted from their stutter? Sometimes I feel like I just ran a marathon.”

Other topics include how and why telling your teacher about stuttering may be helpful, an amazing idea Ms. Berkowitz has to raise stuttering awareness by offering people who stutter the option to have stuttering listed on driver’s licenses and identification cards, her work with the The Stuttering Association for the Young (SAY), how she uses “phrasing” to help manage stuttering and so much more.

When discussing the physical exhaustion of stuttering, Ms. Berkowitz is asked about the following statement from Did I Stutter?

“Stuttering is only a problem—in fact is only abnormal—because our culture places so much value on efficiency and self-mastery. Stuttering breaks communication only because ableist notions have already decided how fast and smooth a person must speak to be heard and taken seriously.”

Ms. Berkowitz responded:

“I completely disagree with that statement. Stuttering is a problem in itself. We know stuttering is a real diagnosable disorder with a cause and that is not caused by society’s pressure to decide how fast or slow a stutterer should speak. Stuttering itself is separate from what society believes someone should sound like…That makes me feel like people are denying that stuttering is a real problem.”

Sarah Berkowitz is a 17 year old senior at Adlai E Stevenson High School. Sarah aims for a career working with children with special needs. She is one of the founding Board members of The Stuttering Association For the Young’s Chicago chapter. Recently Sarah performed at SAY’s 14th annual benefit gala and is one of the authors of SAY: Storytellers Vol. 1.

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