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Streaming Video Library6 Tips For Speaking With Someone Who Stutters
Stuttering may look like an easy problem that can be solved with some simple advice, but for many adults, it can be a chronic life-long disorder. Here are some ways that you, the listener, can help.
1. Don’t make remarks like: “Slow down,” “Take a breath,” or “Relax.” Such simplistic advice can be felt as demeaning and is not helpful.
Stuttering Foundation President Jane Fraser and Vice-President Joe Fulcher joined therapists, supporters, and trustees of the Association for Research into Stammering in Childhood, ARSC, and staff of the Michael Palin Centre on Sept. 20 to celebrate the opening of the newly-refurbished facility, which includes a high-tech room named for Malcolm Fraser.
Kirk and John Tarver and their Memphis-based Shelby Railroad Service Inc. raised a record $7,800 to help those who stutter at their Annual Tin Cup Tournament and Bar-B-Que held October 6 at the Wedgewood Golf Club in Olive Branch, Miss.
Now a fixture on the ladies pro golf circuit for nearly 18 years, the public at large is unaware that Sophie Gustafson deals with the issue of stuttering every day of her life.
Stuttering Foundation 2011 Western workshopper Katarzyna Wesierska translated the book Stuttering: Straight Talk for Teachers into Polish.
By June Campbell, M.A., CCC-SLP, BRSFD
In August 2011, 60 speech-language pathologists, graduate students and young people who stutter (ages 8-16) attended the inaugural session of Camp Shout Out held at Pioneer Trails Camp on Big Blue Lake near Muskegon, Michigan. Camp Shout Out is an intensive speech therapy and recreation program for young people who stutter and a hands-on CEU training opportunity for speech-language pathologists and graduate students.
February marked 50 years since John Glenn blasted off to orbit the Earth. Glenn, one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, is an American hero. But he has his own hero — his wife, Annie.
Lead singer for the rock band Hello Kelly, Francois “Francy” Goudreault, Jr., was also honored by the Stuttering Foundation. In Hello Kelly’s song Communication Breakdown, Francy and his bandmates have set to music the struggles 65 million people around the world live each day. Francy’s message and achievement amplify hope for a new generation of people who stutter. Hello Kelly is a feisty alt-rock band from Orangeville, ON.
“In his book V-V-Voice: A Stutterer’s Odyssey, Scott Damian explores his own personal struggles with stuttering while reminding us through his multitalented career how those obstacles can be overcome,” noted Jane Fraser at the gala. “He is an inspiration.”
Sept. 2011 — St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, was the perfect setting for numerous outstanding presentations by experts in the field.
A Limerick About the Western Workshop
Jane Fraser, president of the Stuttering Foundation, represented the stuttering community May 9 at the prestigious Monte Cristo Awards dinner honoring legendary actor James Earl Jones.
My name is Glenn Weybright. I am a speech-language pathologist in Portland, Oregon, and a person who stutters. In late April, 2011, I spent 8 days with a medical team helping treat Haitian children and adults in a primary care medical clinic in the village of Gramothe, Haiti, about 15 miles south of Port Au Prince.
“Thanks to The King’s Speech, the sheer volume of articles and interviews on stuttering made this year’s choice very difficult,” said Jane Fraser, president of the Foundation. “This film has raised awareness of stuttering beyond any level we could ever have imagined and, in turn, was the force behind all other entries.”