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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Friday, 05 April 2013 14:35
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Written by Mary Rose S. Labandelo
Mary Rose
I am a stutterer and I have accepted my speech. In the past, I have experienced ridicule from individuals and groups. I felt self conscious, inferior and did not see the purpose of my speech challenge. I attended therapy with brief fluency. The turning point in my life occurred when I started the Vancouver Support Group for Stutterers in 1997 and became involved with the stuttering community.
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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Sunday, 13 January 2013 04:22
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Written by Lisa Wilder
Two years ago, the Stuttering Foundation awarded the 1974 Bachman-Turner Overdrive tune You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet an award for being the "most unique" of all the songs that feature stuttering. It stood out because it is about a real person: Randy Bachman's brother, Glen, who stuttered. Randy performed a version of the song with stuttering in the chorus as a tribute to him, never intending it to be released. But the band's manager thought the stuttering version had more character, and it ended up being used for the album.
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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Thursday, 29 November 2012 07:03
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Written by Super User
In this amusing article featured in the Australian newspaper the Age, noted author Kate Forsyth relates her battles with speech difficulties and memories of her childhood. Has anyone else ever heard of "spoonerisms"?
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Fuddling up my mucking words
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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Sunday, 17 February 2013 12:11
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Written by Lisa Wilder
This is a continuation of our series on Disability Studies as it relates to stuttering. Carolina Ayala's thesis research paper, Myself As I am, Not as Others See Me: Stuttering, Identity and Acceptance was submitted to the Graduate Program in Critical Disability Studies at York University in 2009.
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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:21
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Written by Lisa Wilder
Disability Studies is a relatively recent field in academia, yet today almost all of Canada's major universities have degree programs in this area. In what will be the first of a series, this article will summarize a paper by a student in a Disabilities Studies program who has specialized in the topic of stuttering. The student featured here is Joshua St. Pierre, an MA candidate in philosophy at the University of Alberta. His paper is entitled "The Construction of the Disabled Speaker: Locating Stuttering in Disability Studies."
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Published: Wednesday, 21 November 2012 16:16
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Written by Samuel Dunsiger
For people who stutter, picking up a telephone to make a call can be like picking up a live cobra – only the phone is worse. Stutterers often share the agony of having to speak on the phone.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about why this is so. And here’s what I’ve come up with. Someone once told me about that about 70 per cent of the meaning we get from dialogue comes from non-verbal communication. The rest comes from verbal communication.
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