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Published: Wednesday, 25 November 2020 12:59
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Written by Lisa Wilder
Jordan Scott is an award winning, world-renowned Canadian poet who has stuttered his whole life. His first book of poetry published in 2006, Silt, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. His second body of work, Blert in 2008, directly addresses the experience of stuttering and language. He is also the author of Night & Ox, among other works.
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Published: Wednesday, 02 September 2020 06:58
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Written by Lisa Wilder
In 1936, a statuesque 20-year-old named Mary Dowell was hired as a dancing girl for an extravagant Texas Centennial celebration in her home town of Fort Worth. Until then she had been, in her own words, “looked upon as a sort of freak” due to her height and pronounced stutter. “When I walked down the street people would look at me and grin, like I was the town idiot. I was the unhappiest girl in Texas.”
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Published: Friday, 07 August 2020 09:31
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Written by CSA Admin
Mike Wilson has dealt with stuttering all his life, and is active at conferences and in the stuttering community, including interviewing people who stutter on his podcast, Stuttering with Confidence.
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Published: Monday, 12 October 2020 12:49
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Written by Nathan Rattansey
For people who stutter (PWS), the following scenario — or some variation of it — is all too familiar. You are standing in line at Starbucks. You know exactly what you’re going to order: Pumpkin Spice Latte. Grande.
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Published: Monday, 31 August 2020 14:54
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Written by Lisa Wilder
Dr. Bob G Bodenhamer is a clinician and a certified trainer of Neurolinguistic Processing, or NLP, who applies its principles to the treatment of stuttering. His books on the subject are I Have a Voice: How to Stop Stuttering and Mastering Blocking and Stuttering: A Cognitive Approach to Fluency.
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Published: Tuesday, 09 June 2020 10:12
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Written by CSA Admin
Do you have an idea for a workshop? Our November conference will be a chance to meet and socialize and learn together once again. Due to the success of our one-day conferences that we have been holding for the past six years, 2020 will be a big year as we expand the event and move the conference venue to beautiful Niagara Falls!
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