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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: 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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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Tuesday, 06 January 2015 22:58
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Written by Lisa Wilder
Alan Turing
You may have seen the recent movie, The Imitation Game, about British mathematician Alan Turing. During the Second World War he devised a machine, much like a computer, to break the encrypted "Enigma" code used by the Germans for communication. This gave the Allies a secret advantage and the ability to end the war much earlier than otherwise possible. Turing was not publicly credited for this during his lifetime.
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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 Commentary
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Published: Monday, 16 February 2015 22:44
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Written by Carolina Adriana Ayala
If you receive the disability tax credit you can apply for a government assisted savings plan.
For the longest time, I had a very real struggle. I knew and accepted that I stuttered. It was okay with me because it was a part of me, but not all of me. However, there was always something that nagged me. I hated being treated as different. All I wanted was to be seen as normal. I really disliked the word “stutterer”, even though that is what I am.
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Published: Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:59
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Written by Alexandra D’Agostino
The Canadian Stuttering Association is having a one-day conference this month in Toronto. It will feature a number of speakers giving short presentations on stuttering, from personal stories to scientific research on the causes and treatments for stuttering. For more information, check out the website. Alexandra, a CSA board member, offers advice here for people who have never attended a conference for people who stutter.
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