Trusted Resources
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In addition to the information we provide here at SAY: Australia, we also have a list of additional international resources that support people who stutter, their families, and the clinicians who work with them.
FRIENDS: The National Association of Young People Who Stutter
- A national organization based in the USA created to provide a network of support for children and teens who stutter, their families and the professionals who work with them. Their website has some useful resources. Visit friendswhostutter.org
National Stuttering Association (NSA)
- Based in the USA, the NSA is dedicated to bringing hope and empowerment to children and adults who stutter, their families, and professionals through support, education, advocacy and research. Visit westutter.org
StutterTalk®
- Based in the USA, StutterTalk® is the first and longest running podcast on stuttering. Established in 2007, they have published more than 600 episodes featuring people who stutter, researchers, speech-language pathologists, leaders in the self help community, family members, famous people who stutter and others. StutterTalk is heard in more than 170 countries. Episodes have been downloaded or played millions of times. Visit www.stuttertalk.com
OUT WITH IT: How Stuttering helped me find my voice
Katherine Preston.
A vividly powerful memoir of a young woman who fought for years to change who she was until she finally found her voice and learned to embrace her imperfection.
Imagine waking up one day to find your words trapped inside your head, unable to say what you feel, think, want or need. At the age of 7 that happened to Katherine Preston. From that moment, she began battling her stutter and hiding her shame by denying there was anything wrong. Seventeen years later, exhausted and humiliated, she made a life-changing decision: to leave her home in London and spend a year traveling around America meeting hundreds of stutterers, speech therapists, and researchers. What began as a vague search for a cure became a journey that debunked the misconceptions shrouding the condition, and a love story that transformed her conception of what it means to be normal.
Shedding light on an ancient condition that affects approximately 4 million people in the U.S. and 60 million people worldwide, Preston has assembled an anthology of expertise and experience. In addition to specialists in the field, she interviews celebrities, writers, musicians, social workers, psychologists and financiers—men and women of all walks of life battling their difficulties with speech. A heartwarming memoir and a journalistic feat, Out With It is more than a chronicle of one of the most prevalent speech problems in the world; it’s a story about understanding yourself, and learning to embrace the voice within.
For more information about OUT WITH IT visit http://www.katherinepreston.com and watch Katherine briefly discussing her book by clicking here.
And, you can buy the book by clicking HERE!
VOICE UNEARTHED: Hope, Help and a Wake-Up Call for the Parents of Children Who Stutter
Doreen Lenz Holte
The primary message young children get in stuttering therapy is that they can and should manage their speech - in other words, try to not stutter - by utilizing speech tools and techniques.
Doreen Lenz Holte explores the possibilty that the anxiety this causes may create an even greater burden? And if so, can that burden lead to excessive silence and disengagement - a far greater handicap than the stuttering itself?
Through personal narrative and extensive research, Voice Unearthed attempts to answer these questions. Practical guidance that aims to help keep children talking while minimizing everyone’s anxiety around communicating is shared with a reminder to “first do no harm."
Doreen (Dori) Lenz Holte wrote Voice Unearthed: Hope, Help, and a Wake-Up Call for the Parents of Children Who Stutter as the book she wishes she could have read when their family was starting out on this journey with their three-year-old son, Eli, in 1999.
Since the book was published in 2011, and especially after beginning the Facebook group 'Voice Unearthed - Supporting Children Who Stutter' in 2014, Dori has become an international advocate for parents and speech therapists looking for safer ways to treat children. Her focus is on keeping them talking and engaged in the world around them – not fixing their speech. Dori shares her experiences and research with groups of speech language therapists and students of communication disorders, both in person and via Skype.
Visit Dori's website by clicking HERE!
And you can buy the book by clicking HERE!
DEAR WORLD, I STUTTER: A Series Of Open Letters From A Person who Stutters
James Hayden
For most of his life, James has stuttered. As a means of processing his story and accepting his stutter, James decided to write a series of open letters to those who have been or will be on his journey with stuttering. These letters provided an honest and vulnerable look into the heart and mind of a person that stutters.
James Hayden was born, raised, and currently lives in the New Orleans area. He is a New Orleans Saints fan, Survivor superfan, writer, and a person who stutters. James is the author of Dear World, I Stutter: A Series of Open Letters from a Person Who Stutters. His work has been published by The Mighty, The Stuttering Foundation, Yahoo, and MSN. James has also appeared on several podcasts and was a speaker at TEDxOchsner 2019. He also serves as the chapter leader for the New Orleans chapter for the National Stuttering Association.
Check out James's Blog Life & Stuttering: An Honest Look at Stuttering Through the Eyes of a Person Who Stutters.
To Purchase 'Dear World, I Stutter' click HERE!
STAMMERING PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Difference not Defect
Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino, & Sam Simpson
The essays, accounts, research, prose, testimonies, art and poetry in this multidisciplinary anthology will nourish and inform readers who stammer, and readers who don’t, for many years to come. Whether a stammer is a pathology, a quirk to be celebrated, a curse or a blessing, or all these things, Stammering Pride and Prejudice is a gift.
David Mitchell, Award-winning author and person who stammers, provide the book's foreword.
Stammering is typically stigmatized as a character flaw and personal tragedy. We challenge the stereotype that stammering is inherently negative. Instead, we position stammering as a different, valuable and respected way of speaking.
Stammering Pride and Prejudice brings together new, empowering voices and opinions on stammering into one accessible text. Combining personal narrative, art and disability theory, we document how society has historically disabled people who stammer and the diverse ways in which people have created novel and exciting understandings of their speech.
Stammering Pride and Prejudice:
- Is the first published book exploring stammering from a social model perspective written for people who stammer and the general public, as well as professionals
- Represents diverse perspectives on stammering and highlights the attitudinal, environmental and structural barriers in society experienced by people who stammer
- Chronicles newly-developed and undocumented narratives around stammering
- Suggests ways of celebrating and taking pride in stammering so that it is no longer seen as the negative opposite of fluency.
Editors Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino and Sam Simpson say, "Stammering is typically stigmatised as a character flaw. We challenge the stereotype that stammering is inherently negative, instead positioning it as a different, valuable and respected way of speaking."
Learn about the origins of the book by clicking HERE!
You can buy the book by clicking HERE!
Sam Simpson, Christopher Constantino, & Patrick Campbell
WHEN OLIVER SPEAKS
Kimberly Garvin & Saadiq Wicks
A heartfelt story about a young boy who struggles to overcome his stutter while finding the courage to accept it, When Oliver Speaks, is the story of an underdog who learns to rise. The story comes from a place of personal experience in that co-author Saadiq is a person who stutters and has done so for as long as he could speak. Saadiq is also a SAY Alumni!
Kimberly Garvin is a professional speaker and author, with a passion for engaging audiences, connecting people, and bringing out the best in those she encounters on a daily basis. Through her prolific speaking career, as well as her peerless gift for writing, Kimberly has touched thousands of lives, bringing confidence and wisdom to those who are exposed to her way of thinking. Kimberly holds a degree in mass communications from Fairleigh Dickinson University. When she's not on stage or at a book signing, Kimberly loves writing, reading, and spending time with friends and family. She also appears regularly as a guest at special events and radio stations around the country.
Saadiq Wicks is 13 years old and the Founder and Director of Lllet Me Finish, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting young people who stutter. He is also a person who has stuttered for as long as he can remember talking. One of his goals - and he has many - is to raise awareness about stuttering. He also wants to help both kids and adults who stutter to get to a place where they feel okay, better than okay, about their speech and about themselves.
Buy the book by clicking HERE!
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