Dr. Alan Rabinowitz passed away last month at age 65 after a prolonged struggle with leukemia. A distinguished zoologist and preservationist, he co-founded an organization, Panthera, to help preserve endangered big cats in their natural habitats.
In it's seventh year and now expanding to Eastern Canada, the annual Walk/Run fundraiser is fast approaching! In Toronto it is on September 23 in the east end (Betty Sutherland Trail).
Since I was seven years old, I have had a stutter. I never know what to say when curious minds asked how it started, though.
I was always a sensitive, nervous kid with a tendency to worry about things that never ended up happening. In any case, stuttering has been a cog, if you will, for much of my life. That’s not to say, however, that it defines me.
A team of researchers and graduate students at the University of Texas at San Atonio have been awarded a grant to create brain-computer interface technology that will study brain activity patterns of people who stutter.
Disability Credit Canada has recently published a new, comprehensive guide about the Disability Tax Credit, the Child tax credit and the CPP that can take a lot of the anxiety and uncertainty from the process and help disabled Canadians receive a tax refund.
You can register for our conference using the secure and reliable Eventbrite site here. This conference, entitled Voices Rising: a Day to Talk about Stuttering, will feature the same high calibre content that has been offered at the previous Toronto conferences. 2018 is the fifth anniversary of the "reboot" of the CSA event, and the twenty-eighth year continuing the tradition of CSA conferences. More information is available here.