We recently had someone on Twitter ask us if an app could be a replacement for a Speech Easy device. Here's what our resident Speech-Language Pathologist (and fellow stutterer) Casey Kennedy had to say.
Can the Speech Easy be replaced by an app?
Stuttering as Honest Speech
Quebec PWS launch Francophone website
Artist who stutters creates beautiful children's book
Raising awareness of stuttering in Africa
Talking to Children about Stuttering
CSA One-Day Conference Recap
International Stuttering Awareness Day October 22
Thursday is International Stuttering Awareness Day, and the annual online conference, featuring papers written about stuttering and other speech disorders, is in full swing.
Being able to say anything whatever, wherever and whenever you want
Ottawa Hospital to close its Stuttering Treatment Clinic after 43 Years
In its recent round of funding cuts Dr. Jack Kitts, CEO of the Ottawa Hospital, announced that the Stuttering Treatment Clinic will close at the end of October 2015.
Reasons given by the Hospital for closing the clinic are: stuttering is not an illness requiring medical expertise, and the Hospital’s mandate is to care for Eastern Ontario’s “sickest” individuals and to not fund services that can be provided in the community.