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Category: Personal Stories
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Published: Friday, 07 August 2015 00:42
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Written by CSA Admin
In honour of the upcoming one-day Canadian Stuttering Association conference, CSA board member Daniele Rossi is featuring interviews with attendees from our events in the past.
Kicking off our series is long-time conference attendee and presenter Mary Wood. Mary recently gave a number of workshops at the National Stuttering Association in Baltimore, one of which on forgiveness. In the video at the end of this article we chat briefly about her workshop and what forgiveness means to a PWS. Let’s get to know a little more about Mary...
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Category: Book Reviews
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Published: Wednesday, 01 July 2015 16:53
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Written by Lisa Wilder
A review of Chris Eagle's book Dysfluencies: On Speech Disorders in Modern Literature
Ken Kesey’s 1963 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – made into an award-winning movie – is perhaps the best known example featured in a new book titled Dysfluencies. Researcher Chris Eagle’s topic is “the ways in which disorders of speech and language are understood by modern writers and represented in modern literature” and discusses works of fiction and poetry that depict characters with stuttering, aphasia, and Tourette’s syndrome.
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Category: Personal Stories
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Published: Friday, 10 April 2015 17:40
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Written by Dylan Madeley
Dylan Madeley
I recently had an interesting experience attending part of a Canadian Stuttering Association board meeting. Although I have been stuttering since around the age of five, I first experienced a meeting of so many people who directly understood what this was like at age twenty-nine.
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Category: Personal Stories
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Published: Saturday, 25 July 2015 12:50
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Written by Jaan Pill
It all began with a problem. The problem was that, fifty years ago, I stuttered so badly there were times I could not get out any words at all. Fortunately, I found a way to address this problem – by attending the ISTAR (Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research) clinic in Edmonton in 1987. After that, I was able to speak more or less fluently even to large audiences.
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Category: Book Reviews
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Published: Monday, 04 May 2015 15:19
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Written by Lisa Wilder
Jordan Scott
Jordan Scott might be a person who stutters, yet an avoider of difficult words he is not. In fact, his second book of poetry, Blert, published in 2009, was deliberately written to be as difficult for him to speak as possible. Originally from Coquitlam, British Columbia, Jordan is fascinated by the linguistic implications of stuttering as it relates to human communication and sees his work as "a desire to explore stuttering poetically". A reading tour followed the publication of Blert in which Jordan put his stuttering on display in all its glory. The Music Gallery in Toronto featured him that year in performance along with the Elemental Choir.
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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Tuesday, 17 March 2015 00:43
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Written by By Jean-François Ferry
I’m fidgeting in my chair. The room is cold – not just the air – but also the room itself. I wait as the next speaker walks without haste to the front of the room. I’m at a work all-staff meeting, an annual event intended to have all of us sit together for a day to team-build.
When the speaker talks, I immediately notice the very slow deliberate tempo of his speech. Listening more intently, I start to pick out fluency techniques. He is good. No disfluency. “He is a fellow stutterer”, I think to myself. And smile.
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