Link #44
While reading Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game, you can absolutely feel the author’s positive energy coming from her experience stuttering her very important speech at her graduation ceremony. IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. It’s not so scary after all :)
“All of you deserve to feel a sense [...]
Link #43
Here’s a terrific blog post by medical student, Irvin Bussel, who vividly explains the frustrations of stuttering in dialogue form. I really like his analogy of trying to colour between the lines with your crayons and dealing with your stuttering as you playing with the cards you’re dealt. We really have no choice but [...]
#42
I recently met up with my friend Heather on her business trip to Toronto. She was taking a work-related course and ended up learning a lot more than her curriculum. Heather blogged about her friends’ curiosity about stuttering “after seeing a series of uncomfortable restaurant staff, two icebreaker self introductions and a flat out rude [...]
#41
Listener, Lyla, alerted me that Stuttering Stan Takes A Stand is now available in audio book form for free! It’s a children’s book about a squirrel named Stuttering Stan who deals with bullying and deals with his stuttering. I really like how from the beginning, Stuttering Stan doesn’t try to hide his stutter. The story [...]
#41
CBC, Canada’s public broadcaster, recently aired a documentary about stuttering on their radio network. Unfortunately, I missed it however, fortunately, I have friends who took the time to tell me about it and suggest that I contact the station. I would have never imagined that the following week I’d be at the station recording the [...]
#40
Pam Mertz, the @stutterrockstar, shared a moving explanation and all-too familiar frustration with stuttering by one of her readers, Adam. Adam hits the nail on the head as he describes what it feels like to grow up stuttering. As much as I’m open and positive about my stuttering NOW, before acceptance and all, I wasn’t [...]
Stuttering on your own name will be the theme of my next episode of Stuttering is Cool. Record an mp3 (or any other sound file) of you telling a story about a time when you stuttered on your name. It can be a funny story, a sad story or one of those really, really awkward [...]
#39
My friend Ridwan started up his own blog! I really like the name, Ridwan’s Scribbles. And I really like how he uses my Ti-Ger cartoon for the bookmark icon and I really like what he wrote on his about page:
This is my place to be myself; a place that I love, a place where I [...]
#38
International Stuttering Awareness Day happens every October and it’s an online conference! It’s happening from October 1-22. Here’s more information about this unique event:
Stuttering: More Than a Tangled Tongue is the theme of the twelfth annual International Stuttering Awareness Day online conference, hosted by Judith Kuster, Minnesota State University, Mankato, will open October 1. It [...]
#37
A new forum has popped up recently and it’s called stutteringcommunity.com. Despite it being new, it seems to be quite busy. Among the usual topic areas for stuttering (stuttering, treatments, venting), two which caught my interest are Skype Sessions and Success Stories. I love the success stories. Great idea! And so are the skype sessions [...]
