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5 Nov 2010

The King’s Speech with Taro Alexander:Two Thumbs Up (Ep. 238)

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Taro Alexander

Taro Alexander joins Peter Reitzes to discuss the wonderful film The King’s Speech.

TARO ALEXANDER is a person who stutters, a professional actor and Founder and Artistic Director of the Our Time Theatre Company in New York City – “An artistic home for young people who stutter.” Taro also founded Camp Our Time – an annual summer camp for young people who stutter and their siblings and friends between the ages of 8-18.  In 2002 Taro was honored by the National Council on Communicative Disorders at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where he received the Charles Van Riper Award. Alexander performed for 4 years in the successful Off-Broadway production of STOMP. Check out this great article by Taro describing Our Time and this great article by some of the Our Time actors.

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31 Oct 2010

Welcome to Holland: Stuttering and Acceptance (236)

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Lee Caggiano, MA CCC-SLP joins Peter Reitzes and Eric Jackson to discuss acceptance.

During this episode Lee is asked to discuss acceptance from the viewpoint of the mother of a person who stutters and from her experience as a speech-language pathologist and director of a stuttering self-help organization. Lee is a Board Recognized Fluency Specialist and Mentor in Fluency Disorders, Director of the Stuttering Therapy and Resource Center of Long Island, is the co-founder and director of FRIENDS: The Association for Young People Who Stutter and an adjunct professor at New York University, Queens College and Long Island University.

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24 Oct 2010

60+ Years of Stuttering with Dr. Eugene B. Cooper (Ep. 235)

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Dr. Eugene Cooper

Eugene B. Cooper, Ed.D takes a break from retirement to join Peter Reitzes to discuss more than 60 years of studying stuttering, working with people who stutter and training speech-language pathologists.

During this episode Dr. Cooper discusses Chronic Perseverative Stuttering Snydrome, the frequency fallacy, the importance of the relationship between the client and clinician, choosing a therapist, his thoughts on specialty recognition for stuttering, a conversation with Bob Quesal (parts 1 and 2) and so much more. Dr. Eugene B. Cooper is a Professor and Chair Emeritus of the University of Alabama’s Department of Communicative Disorders and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Nova Southeastern University’s Program in Speech Language Pathology. Dr. Cooper is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and received the Honors of the association. He and his wife Crystal are the authors of over 150 publications primarily in the area of stuttering and professional issues.

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17 Oct 2010

Acceptance with the B Team (234)

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Caryn Herring, Joel Korte and Roisin McManus (the Stuttertalk “B Team”) have submitted their monthly episode which is the first of a two part series on acceptance.

Caryn, Joel and Roisin explore the many facets of stuttering acceptance from the “B Team” perspective.  They attempt to break apart what aspects of stuttering are the easiest and most difficult to accept. Roisin has some good news to report on her job hunt as well. During this episode the crew references StutterTalk episode 104 (the Jack Welch episode) and episode 231 (the Charlie Osborne episode). In the coming weeks, Peter and Eric (the “A Team”) plan on discussing acceptance with a special guest.

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11 Oct 2010

What Exactly is Mild Stuttering with Dr. Bob Quesal (233)

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Bob Quesal

Bob Quesal, Ph.D., joins Peter Reitzes and Eric Jackson to moderate a discussion on the topics of mild stuttering and do some people stutter more than others?

Dr. Robert Quesal is a frequent guest on StutterTalk – this was Bob’s first time moderating the discussion and StutterTalk wishes to thank Dr. Quesal for putting up with and guiding our arguments discussion. Dr. Quesal is a Board Recognized Fluency Specialist, a professor at Western Illinois University, co-author of the Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering (OASES) and one of StutterTalk’s “go to” experts on stuttering and therapy.

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4 Oct 2010

What Does it Take to Understand the Experience of Stuttering (Ep. 191)

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Eric, Bob and Joe

Dr. Bob Quesal (center) and Dr. Joe Klein (right) join Eric Jackson to discuss how some people in our field “get” the experience of stuttering, and some people just don’t. This episode was recorded in Albany, NY during the 35th annual Weekend Workshop for People Who Stutter. Thanks to Dr. Joe Klein for hosting us and the event.

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