The American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology has chosen a “Peer Responses to Stuttering in the Preschool Setting,” a research report by Marilyn Langevin, Ann Packman, and Mark Onslow as the recipient of an ASHA (American Speech-Language Hearing Association) Editor’s Award for 2009.
Marilyn Langevin is a researcher and speech-language pathologist at the Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research (ISTAR) in Alberta.
David Shield’s novel, Dead Languages, is an intensely personal narrative about the life of Jeremy Zorn, growing up in San Francisco in the 60s and 70s
The annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience has released information about studies that show how
This article highlights four well-rehearsed presentations at a Teachers and Students Who Stutter workshop at the CSA national conference in August 2007. The workshop took place in Toronto on August 17, 2007.
The zebra finch is a rare bird in that its full genome has been mapped by geneticists. Remarkably, this has led to advances in stuttering research.
The Indian Stammering Association is protesting a new Bombay-produced movie, called "Golmaal 3". The movie features a person who stammers/stutters as an object of ridicule. According to Dr Satyendra Srivastava, the Coordinator of the ISA,
The movie repeatedly makes fun of people who stammer, and by doing so, humiliates them, and portrays a disability in a negative light, in the name of cheap humor. It promotes the stereotype that persons who stammer are mentally deficient and are incompetent.
Karen Hollett, CSA member, author of "Hooray for Aiden" and Northwest Territories resident, informs us that members of the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) Legislative Assembly will speak
