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
Caryn Herring
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.
CARYN HERRING, ROISIN MCMANUS, and JOEL KORTE (the “Stuttertalk B Team“) begin the show by talking about Roisin’s recent wedding speech. Later, Joel talks about his wonderful experience at the University of Minnesota Kids Who Stutter Camp that he took part in last week. This evolves into a conversation about the B Team’s thoughts on how parents can support their children who stutter.
StutterTalk host Barry Yeoman is joined by Martin Seefeld to discuss how the stuttering self-help movement can stay relevant in the 21st century. This is the fifth and final StutterTalk episode from Lunteren, The Netherlands at the 10th World Congress for People Who Stutter. All five episodes are archived here.
MARTIN SEEFELD, 26, is a Ph.D. candidate in neuroscience at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
BARRY YEOMAN is a respected journalist, a person who stutters, a StutterTalk advisor and a long-time participant in self-help organizations for people who stutter. Barry advises StutterTalk on issues pertaining to ethics in journalism, reporting and much more. Read Mr. Yeoman’s entire bio here. Mr. Yeoman has been featured several times on StutterTalk – those episodes are archived here.
StutterTalk host Barry Yeoman is joined by Elaine Robin and Stefan Hoffmann in Lunteren, The Netherlands at the 10th World Congress for People Who Stutter. Both Elaine and Stefan are Westerners who have lived in China. Barry asks them about the emerging stuttering self-help movement in China. Check back tomorrow at StutterTalk.com for our fifth and final episode from the Netherlands.
Elaine Robin
Barry Yeoman
Stefan Hoffman
ELAINE ROBIN is a speech-language pathologist and a person who stutters. She lives in the Seattle area.
STEFAN HOFFMAN is the former vice chair of the International Stuttering Association (ISA). He lives in Ingolstadt, Germany.
BARRY YEOMAN is a respected journalist, a person who stutters, a StutterTalk advisor and a long-time participant in self-help organizations for people who stutter. Barry advises StutterTalk on issues pertaining to ethics in journalism, reporting and much more. Read Mr. Yeoman’s entire bio here. Mr. Yeoman has been featured several times on StutterTalk – those episodes are archived here.
StutterTalk host Barry Yeoman is joined by Adeyemi Akintunde in Lunteren, The Netherlands at the 10th World Congress for People Who Stutter. Mr. Akintunde talks about living in a country where people who stutter can’t even hail taxis, much less find employment.
StutterTalk hopes to quick-publish several more daily episodes from the 10th World Congress. Check back at StutterTalk.com for updates.
ADEYEMI AKINTUNDE, 29, is a founder of the Stuttering Association of Nigeria. He studied accounting at Osun State Polytechnic and economics at Bowen University in Iwo, Osun State. He now manages a family business.
BARRY YEOMAN is a respected journalist, a person who stutters, a StutterTalk advisor and a long-time participant in self-help organizations for people who stutter. Barry advises StutterTalk on issues pertaining to ethics in journalism, reporting and much more. Read Mr. Yeoman’s entire bio here. Mr. Yeoman has been featured several times on StutterTalk – those episodes are archived here.
StutterTalk host Barry Yeoman is joined by David Mitchell and Harry Dhillon in Lunteren, The Netherlands at the 10th World Congress for People Who Stutter. Mr. Dhillon explains how he stopped seeing himself as a victim and began taking responsibility for making changes. Mr. Mitchell encourages people who stutter to be more engaged in the political process and explains why people who stammer are “empathy generators.” StutterTalk plans to quick-publish several more daily episodes from the 10th World Congress. Check back at StutterTalk.com for updates.
David Mitchell
Barry Yeoman
Harry Dhillon
DAVID MITCHELL is a widely respected, award winning novelist from England. His novels include Ghostwritten, Number9Dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green and the Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. David Mitchell is a person who stutters and a patron of the British Stammering Association.
HARRY DHILLON is president of a London Toastmasters club, works in information technology, is a real estate investor and is active in the stuttering scene in the United Kingdom.
BARRY YEOMAN is a respected journalist, a person who stutters, a StutterTalk advisor and a long-time participant in self-help organizations for people who stutter. Barry advises StutterTalk on issues pertaining to ethics in journalism, reporting and much more. Read Mr. Yeoman’s entire bio here. Mr. Yeoman has been featured several times on StutterTalk – those episodes are archived here.
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26 Jun 2013
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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