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Stuttering, history and popular culture

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Category: Book Reviews

Published: Friday, 14 September 2018 14:40

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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A Boy and a Jaguar: the life of Alan Rabinowitz

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Category: Book Reviews

Published: Saturday, 11 August 2018 17:44

Written by Lisa Wilder

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.

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New brain-computer interface technology to help people who stutter

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Category: Research

Published: Sunday, 10 June 2018 15:21

Written by CSA Admin

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. 

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If you are talking to someone who stutters

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Category: Personal Stories

Published: Tuesday, 04 September 2018 10:26

Written by Vikesh Anand

Vvvikesh here, no I didn’t forget my name, I just have a stutter. For more than half my life I never spoke about my stuttering with anyone and I think it was fear of being judged but also guilt. I felt guilty that I was speaking the wrong way and that fluency was the only right way.

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How stand-up comedy alleviated my stutter

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Category: Personal Stories

Published: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:52

Written by Ryan Cowley

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.

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Joze Piranian's award-winning Tedx talk

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Category: Personal Commentary

Published: Saturday, 21 April 2018 19:48

Written by CSA Admin

Lifelong stutterer and award-winning Speaker and Comedian Joze Piranian shares his ongoing journey of confronting fear to motivate others to overcome their own obstacles (their "inner stutter") and fulfill their true potential.

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