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Category: News Items
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Published: Monday, 01 October 2018 23:20
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Written by CSA Admin
The Canadian Stuttering Association (CSA) is excited to announce that on October 22, the awe-inspiring CN Tower in Toronto will light up in sea foam green in honour of International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD)! If you happen to be in Toronto tonight, see the lights! There will be a group meeting at Olympic Park near the CN Tower at 8 pm. They will have green glow sticks to identify themselves! We hope to capture some nice photos of how Toronto is lighting up to bring awareness to stuttering!
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Category: Personal Stories
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Published: Wednesday, 26 September 2018 09:51
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Written by Shaun Ghulam
My name is Zishan Ghulam, but people call me Shaun as it’s easier to pronounce. I am 35 years old and I am in the 1% of the worlds population who stutters. It runs in my family as my brother also stutters. I had it worse, but believe it or not I am happy I did, because it has taught me so much.
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Category: News Items
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Published: Wednesday, 19 September 2018 22:39
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Written by CSA Admin
The Canadian Stuttering Association is proud to publish the agenda for our upcoming one-day conference on October 20th. Our conference is for people who stutter, family and friends of people who stutter, speech-language pathologists and students of speech-language pathology, and this year's promises to be our best yet!
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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Saturday, 15 September 2018 01:21
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Written by Joshua Etienne
This is a republishing of Joshua's article written two years ago, about how much he got out of attending the CSA conference. Information about the upcoming 2018 Conference on October 20th is available here.
When my mom told me that I was going to the Canadian Stuttering Association (CSA) conference, I wasn’t excited at all. I thought it would be one of those stereotypical conventions - just talking and boring games, but it wasn’t.
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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Saturday, 15 September 2018 01:15
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Written by Ryan Cowley
Ryan Cowley
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a very visual person. While there isn’t anything wrong with that, it has provided me with one major setback. Due to my stuttering, if I'm speaking with someone, I need their visual attention. So, if someone I’m speaking to is looking at a computer screen, looking through cupboards or sitting in the front seat of a car while I’m sitting in the backseat, getting even just a few words out can be a daunting task. Since I can’t see who I’m speaking to on the phone, it makes speaking even more difficult.
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Category: Book Reviews
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Published: Friday, 14 September 2018 14:40
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Written by Lisa Wilder
This is a review of Stutter, by Marc Shell, published 2005 by Harvard University Press. Part one of three parts
The familiar saying “you can’t judge a book by it’s cover” has never been more true than when applied to Marc Shell’s Stutter. A photo of the author as a small child wearing a cowboy outfit graces the book jacket, his innocent face both quizzical and apprehensive.
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