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.

Hannah Seaman, a person who stutters and the subject of a 2006 documentary about stuttering, has won the crown in a competition for the title of Miss B.C.. A graduate of fine arts and a student of drama, Hannah did not hide her stuttering during the competition, and even did a monologue for the judges during the talent portion.

"I know how alone I used to feel, and no one deserves to feel unworthy or like an outcast because of something they can’t control,” she says. “I just proved to myself what I can do, even with a disability.”

The Canadian band Hello Kelly has won an award from the Stuttering Foundation, an American organization helping those who stutter.

Planning is underway for a 1K/5K Walk event to raise awareness about stuttering, and to raise money for the Speech and Stuttering Institute to provide speech therapy for low-

The Australian Stuttering Research Centre, located at Sydney University, is developing a program to treat social phobia in people who stutter. The developed treatment, a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) program, will include online therapy.

Have you checked out Stutter Social, the google+ web chat room for stutterers that has international participation?

On Saturday June 2, some members of the stuttering community in Toronto made a road trip to Oshawa, Ontario to Stuttering J