Yelena Averbukh, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, an Academic Teaching Hospitalist at Montefiore Medical Center and a person who stutters. During today’s episode Yelena and Peter explore her ideas on a Multidisciplinary Treatment Approach for People Who Stutter and much more.
Caryn Herring, Joel Korte, and Roisin McManus (the Stuttertalk “B Team”) have submitted their monthly episode for April. The B Team kicks off the show by paying homage to former Stuttertalk co-host and co-founder Eric Jackson by sharing a few memorable stories. Later, they talk about how it can be surprising when speech tools actually work and follow that with an extended discussion on what makes a good communicator. They wrap up the show by discussing “worrying about what others think” when it comes to stuttering.
John Campbell is a British political writer and biographer. His works include 2010’s Pistols at Dawn and biographies of Aneurin Bevan, Edward Heath, and Margaret Thatcher. Mr. Campbell has written two volumes on Margaret Thatcher The Grocer’s Daughter and its sequel The Iron Lady. John Campbell was awarded the NCR Book Award for his biography of Edward Heath. Most recently, Mr. Campbell’s book The Iron Lady has been turned into a film starring Meryl Streep who stars as the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Robert “The Expert” Quesal and Caryn Herring join Peter Reitzes to discuss graduate students who stutter in speech-language pathology, changing stop consonants to continuant sounds to manage stuttering, lucky fluency, how to respond to questions such as What do I do with children who stutter? and much more. This is StutterTalk’s third episode in a series focusing on graduate students and speech-language pathologists who stutter.
Dorvan H. Breitenfeldt, Professor Emeritus at Eastern Washington University, joins Peter Reitzes to discuss his life with stuttering, stuttering in the military, advertising stuttering, voluntary stuttering, the Successful Stuttering Management Program (SSMP), the importance of having a sense of humor about stuttering, tough love in therapy, facing obstacles such as discrimination, fluency as not the goal, lifestyle changes to coincide with therapy, eye contact, when to introduce handling techniques in therapy, the King’s Speech and much more.
Natalie Bragan joins Peter Reitzes to discuss her life as a person who stutters, covert stuttering, speech therapy, her interest in trying voluntary stuttering, stuttering accomplices, how faith has supported her in life and with stuttering, how stuttering and avoidance can be tiring, her great appreciation of the recent B Team episode and much more.
NATALIE BRAGAN graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Maine in Orono in May 2008 and is currently working as a Staff Accountant for the State of Maine. Ms. Bragen is an active member, treasurer, and song leader of her church in Newport, ME, married in June of 2008 and started her job with the state in the same month.
Natalie has recently been attending monthly meetings of the Maine Chapter of the National Stuttering Association (NSA) lead by Marybeth Allen, M.A., CCC- SLP. For more information on the Maine NSA chapter, contact Ms. Allen at mbslp@roadrunner.com.
During the show Natalie shares that speech tools have helped her greatly reduce stuttering behaviors, but accepting her own stuttering is still a major challenge. Natalie discusses three speakings strategies she uses: slowing down (pausing), enunciation and being conscious of how the articulators are moving.
StutterTalk® is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to talking openly about stuttering. StutterTalk is the first and longest running podcast on stuttering. Since 2007 we have published more than 700 podcasts which are heard in 180 countries.
Caryn Herring, Joel Korte, and Roisin McManus (the Stuttertalk “B Team”) have submitted their monthly episode for April. The B Team kicks off the show by paying homage to former Stuttertalk co-host and co-founder Eric Jackson by sharing a few memorable stories. Later, they talk about how it can be surprising when speech tools actually work and follow that with an extended discussion on what makes a good communicator. They wrap up the show by discussing “worrying about what others think” when it comes to stuttering.
24 Apr 2011
A Multidisciplinary Treatment Approach for People Who Stutter (273)
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Yelena Averbukh, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, an Academic Teaching Hospitalist at Montefiore Medical Center and a person who stutters. During today’s episode Yelena and Peter explore her ideas on a Multidisciplinary Treatment Approach for People Who Stutter and much more.