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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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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Friday, 06 March 2015 10:32
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Written by K. Casey Kennedy
Joshua Patlik
Josh Patlik is a second year law student at York University in Toronto. He is also a person who stutters. Josh recently met with a class of SLP graduate students at the University of Toronto for a conversation about his experiences, his perspectives, and his life as a stutterer.
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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: Tuesday, 10 March 2015 01:01
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Written by CSA Admin
This video is from 2011, and contains some good information about stuttering, speech therapy, and how to listen to a person who stutters. Jaan Pill is one of the co-founders of the CSA (originally the Canadian Association for People Who Stutter). He is also a co-founder of the Estonian Stuttering Association and of the International Fluency Association. For more information about Jaan, see his website.
Stuttering – A listener’s guide from Jaan Pill on Vimeo.
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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Saturday, 28 February 2015 14:41
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Written by Lisa Wilder
Heather GrossmanHeather Grossman is the clinical director of the American Institute for Stuttering. She has worked for over 25 years as a speech pathologist for both children and adults. She recently gave a interview with Peter Reitzes of Stuttertalk and spoke about her career, working with people who stutter and the way speech therapy has changed over the decades.
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