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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Tuesday, 13 March 2012 02:32
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Written by Daniele Rossi
Dan Rossi
This article was originally published in the Winter 2011 edition of CSAVoices.
I found myself laid off quite unexpectedly last year. My workplace of the last 9 years no longer needed my skills. As thoughts of what new adventure awaits ran around inside my head, I was also starting to worry about stuttering in job interviews. A worry I haven’t had for a decade.
Would employers discriminate against my stuttering? Would they think the usual myths about stuttering? That I am a person of weak character or low intelligence?
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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Sunday, 18 September 2011 11:05
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Written by Lisa Wilder
We are used to seeing some pretty ridiculous stuff on the internet, including more than a few outlandish get-rich-quick marketing schemes. It is easy to dismiss much of it as harmless, thinking, “who would fall for that?” But a closer analysis of how these marketing schemes work, and who benefits and who suffers, might stir different reactions – such as anger towards the insidious nature of unethical internet marketing. There are a few dubious offers on the internet about “cures” for stuttering. The most prevalent is the Kill Your Stutter offer, a program that guarantees to cure stuttering in ten minutes upon the purchase of an e-book.
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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Tuesday, 23 August 2011 17:58
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Written by Richard Lutman
This article first appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of CSA Voices.
So often, we pass judgments on people by our first impressions of them, often without giving it a second thought. But how often do we take the time to look beyond our first impressions of someone? How often do we make the effort to engage with someone even after the first impression of them may not have been what we expected or desired?
Most of the time we don’t give people we meet that opportunity, and yet those few times that we do, we can risk seeing something in someone we did not know existed. As stutterers we often put ourselves in that scenario, where we hope people will take a second glance to look beyond a less than desirable first impression, as we struggle to get the words out.
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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Saturday, 25 February 2012 05:53
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Written by Lisa Wilder
The CSA website has featured articles about the Kill Your Stutter website, a money-making scheme that makes an offer to eliminate stuttering in 10 minutes by following instructions in an e-book. If you are not familiar with this controversy, there are articles about it here and here.
It is the position of most of the stuttering community that this product is being sold by unethical means, by making unsubstantiated claims and preying on the weaknesses and desperation of people who stutter. The product offers a "guarantee" and those who purchase are allowed to return the product within sixty days. However, in the past five months the cost of this product has risen from $67 to $97, indicating that profits are indeed being made on this item, and those who purchase are not returning the product even after their disappointment at the lack of results.
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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Tuesday, 23 August 2011 18:04
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Written by Jaan Pill
This article first appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of CSA Voices. Photos by John G. Meadows.
A panel at the conference
Daniele Rossi of Toronto has recently joined the CSA board of directors. For several years he’s been involved with social media as a podcaster, web designer, and artist. It was his involvement with social media that had led him to accept his stuttering.
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Published: Tuesday, 23 August 2011 06:29
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Written by Lisa Wilder
Collage
The CSA conference that took place August 19th-20th was a success.
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