Seth MacFarlane plays a drill seargent in this amusing sketch featured on Saturday Night Live last weekend.

Most people seemed to like Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention on September 4.

This article was first printed in the Summer 2012 issue of CSA Voices

This is a review of the article from the Journal of Fluency Disorders, issue 37, 2012, "The experiences of living with a sibling who stutters: a preliminary study", pgs 135-148, Janet M. Beilby, Michelle l.Byrnes, Kate N. Young. This review was originally published in the summer 2012 issue of CSA Voices.

It has been proven in research over the past fifteen years or so that speech therapy can improve the speech of people who stutter.

A 1k/5k Walkathon is being planned by members of the stuttering community in Toronto, to take place in September. This event will raise money for The Speech and Stuttering Institute.

Gage Hankins, 18, was in the movie theatre in Colorado at the time of the shooting last week, and got a bullet in the arm. He was in Colorado to attend a conference for young people who stutter. On Monday, with his family alongside him, he publicly recounted his experience. After coming close to losing his life, facing a room full of cameras and reporters to give a nation-wide press conference might not have seemed so intimidating, even for a person who stutters. Gage does a great job.

Dan Rossi and Sam Dunsiger

CSA members Daniele Rossi and Samuel Dunsiger share what they got out of attending the 2012 National Stuttering Association conference in St. Petersburg, Florida.