Stutterer Interrupted

Stutterer Interrupted
Author: Nina G.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 163152643X

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Nina G bills herself as “The San Francisco Bay Area’s Only Female Stuttering Comedian.” On stage, she encounters the occasional heckler, but off stage she is often confronted with people’s comments toward her stuttering; listeners completing her sentences, inquiring, “Did you forget your name?” and giving unwanted advice like “slow down and breathe” are common. (As if she never thought about slowing down and breathing in her over thirty years of stuttering!) When Nina started comedy nearly ten years ago, she was the only woman in the world of stand-up who stuttered—not a surprise, since men outnumber women four to one amongst those who stutter and comedy is a male-dominated profession. Nina’s brand of comedy reflects the experience of many people with disabilities in that the problem with disability isn’t in the person with it but in a society that isn’t always accessible or inclusive.

Self-therapy for the Stutterer

Self-therapy for the Stutterer
Author: Malcolm Fraser
Publisher: The Stuttering Foundation
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0933388454

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Malcolm Fraser knew from personal experience what the person who stutters is up against. His introduction to stuttering corrective procedures first came at the age of fifteen under the direction of Frederick Martin, M.D., who at that time was Superintendent of Speech Correction for the New York City schools. A few years later, he worked with J. Stanley Smith, L.L.D., a stutterer and philanthropist, who, for altruistic reasons, founded the Kingsley Clubs in Philadelphia and New York that were named after the English author, Charles Kingsley, who also stuttered. The Kingsley Clubs were small groups of adult stutterers who met one night a week to try out treatment ideas then in effect. In fact, they were actually practicing group therapy as they talked about their experiences and exchanged ideas. This exchange gave each of the members a better understanding of the problem. The founder often led the discussions at both clubs. In 1928 Malcolm Fraser joined his older brother Carlyle who founded the NAPA-Genuine Parts Company that year in Atlanta, Georgia. He became an important leader in the company and was particularly outstanding in training others for leadership roles. In 1947, with a successful career under way, he founded the Stuttering Foundation of America. In subsequent years, he added generously to the endowment so that at the present time, endowment income covers over fifty percent of the operating budget. In 1984, Malcolm Fraser received the fourth annual National Council on Communicative Disorders' Distinguished Service Award. The NCCD, a council of 32 national organizations, recognized the Foundation's efforts in "adding to stutterers', parents', clinicians', and the public's awareness and ability to deal constructively with stuttering." Book jacket.

Advice to Those who Stutter

Advice to Those who Stutter
Author: Stuttering Foundation of America
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780933388390

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This publication has articles written by men and women who stutter themselves and who are now or have been speech pathologists.

Bay Area Stand-Up Comedy

Bay Area Stand-Up Comedy
Author: Nina G
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2022-02-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439674469

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Comedians of the San Francisco Bay Area changed comedy forever. From visiting acts like Richard Pryor, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg to local favorites who still maintain their following and legacy, the Bay Area has long been a place for comedians to develop their voice and hone their stand-up skills. Popular spots included Cobb's, the Purple Onion, Brainwash, and the holy grail of San Francisco comedy during the 1980s boom, the Holy City Zoo. For over seventy years, these iconic venues and others fostered talent like Ali Wong, Moshe Kasher and the Smothers Brothers, introducing them to local crowds and the world beyond. Join comedians Nina G and OJ Patterson on a hilarious and thoughtful tour through the history of Bay Area comedy.

A Guide to Managing Atypical Communication in Healthcare

A Guide to Managing Atypical Communication in Healthcare
Author: Riya Elizabeth George
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2023-04-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1000838536

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This book presents a supportive and practical guide for healthcare professionals ​and trainees in a way that considers a wide spectrum of atypical communication conditions, their impact on everyday healthcare interactions, and the social and cultural contexts in which interactions with atypical communicators take place. A growing number of patients have been reporting atypical capacity for communication, creating unique challenges for healthcare professionals and patients in forming meaningful clinical interactions. In this book, leading international scholars from a range of healthcare professions provide insight into optimal management for those with atypical communication conditions. This includes speech, language, and hearing impairments. Chapters provide optimal management strategies, case examples, clinical recommendations, and recommended resources relevant for a range of healthcare professionals. The first collection of its kind, this book supports inter-professional practices and serves as a useful guide for those with an interest in clinical communication, and communication and diversity. This book will be a valuable resource for health and mental healthcare professionals as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in healthcare and allied healthcare courses. It can be included as recommended reading material in clinical communication curricula.

A Handbook on Stuttering, Seventh Edition

A Handbook on Stuttering, Seventh Edition
Author: Oliver Bloodstein
Publisher: Plural Publishing
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1635503183

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The revised edition of A Handbook on Stuttering continues its remarkable role as the authoritative, first-line resource for researchers and clinicians who work in the field of fluency and stuttering. Now in its seventh edition, this unique book goes beyond merely updating the text to include coverage of roughly 1,000 articles related to stuttering research and practice that have been published since 2008. This extended coverage integrates the more traditional body of research with evolving views of stuttering as a multi-factorial, dynamic disorder. Comprehensive, clear, and accurate, this text provides evidence-based, practical information critical to understanding stuttering. By thoroughly examining the intricacies of the disorder, A Handbook on Stuttering, Seventh Edition lays the foundation needed before considering assessment and treatment. New to the Seventh Edition: * A completely reorganized table of contents, including two new chapters. * The deletion of approximately 1,000 non-peer-reviewed references from the previous edition to assure discussion of the highest quality evidence on stuttering. * New content on the development of stuttering across the lifespan and assessment. * Given the Handbook’s historic role as a primary reference for allied professionals, a new chapter that addresses myths and misconceptions about stuttering * Expanded coverage on the role of temperament in childhood stuttering * Expanded coverage of brain-based research, genetics, and treatment findings. * A thoroughly updated chapter on conditions under which stuttering fluctuates * Brief tutorial overviews of critical concepts in genetics, neuroimaging, language analysis and other relevant constructs, to better enable reader appreciation of research findings. * A greater selection of conceptual illustrations of basic concepts and findings than in prior editions * Integrated cross-referencing to content across chapters

Getting Unstuck

Getting Unstuck
Author: Cheri Jensen
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2010-09-20
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1452036519

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Finally... a fluency technique that actually works. The author wanted to share her discovery with other adults who stutter. While approaching adults who stutter, she realized that adults do not want to discuss their speech with others, even when being offered something that would help. So she decided to write a book, to give adults a private format in which to deal with their stuttering. This book helps to demystify stuttering, and gives simple directions for using a fluency technique that actually works and is easy to use. It is written in nontechnical terms, so it is easy to navagate. It gives you the possibility of changing your life.

Stammering Resources for Adults and Teenagers

Stammering Resources for Adults and Teenagers
Author: Trudy Stewart
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2020-07-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429558864

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This comprehensive and practical resource is a second volume to the highly influential Dysfluency Resource Book (2010). It brings together the very latest developments in the field of stammering and dysfluency in adults and teenagers and builds upon some of the approaches explored in the Dysfluency Resource Book. The book draws on the expert knowledge of contributors from a wide range of fields, such as specialist speech and language therapy, education, psychology and youth work, with a focus on presenting practical guidance for those working in this complex area. This valuable resource: • Has chapters exploring the latest clinical developments, such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and narrative therapy. • Provides in-depth discussion of some established therapeutic practices, including avoidance-reduction therapy and group work. • Offers concrete application to theory, both the social and medical models, guiding the reader on how to integrate new evidence into clinical practice. • Provides a wealth of activities and photocopiable handouts that can be used in practice. Designed for clinicians and students working with teenagers and adults who stammer, this flexible and practical book embeds an ethos of reflection and adaptation. The detailed overview of therapeutic approaches allows the reader to explore a wide range of techniques, building a strong foundation of knowledge from which to tailor and develop their own practice.

Tremulous Hinge

Tremulous Hinge
Author: Adam Giannelli
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2017-04-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1609384865

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Rain intermits, bus windows steam up, loved ones suffer from dementia—in the constantly shifting, metaphoric world of Tremulous Hinge, figures struggle to remain standing and speaking against forces of gravity, time, and language. In these visually porous poems, boundaries waver and reconfigure along the rumbling shoreline of Rockaway or during the intermediary hours that an insomniac undergoes between darkness and dawn. Through a series of self-portraits, elegies, and Eros-tinged meditations, this hovering never subsides but offers, among the fragments, momentary constellations: “moths all swarming the / same light bulb.” From the difficulties of stuttering to teetering attempts at love, from struggling to order a hamburger to tracing the deckled edge of a hydrangea, these poems tumble and hum, revealing a hinge between word and world. Ultimately, among lofting waves, collapsing hands, and darkening skies, words themselves—a stutterer's maneuvers through speech, a deceased grandfather’s use of punctuation—become forms of consolation. From its initial turbulence to its final surprising solace, this debut collection mesmerizes.