When one of the directors of the school district I work for asked me to “speak up more” during meetings, I got defensive. At one meeting, he even forgot I was there and skipped over me when it was my turn to present. I’m a quiet person, but I speak with intention. As a school-based … read more…
In Patrick Campbell’s previous blog, he talks about the “common language we hear in and around speech and language therapy” and the “language of childhood therapy.” As the parent of a now-23-year-old who stutters, I never questioned what a therapist meant when they talked of “speech therapy.” This is a topic now on my mind … read more…
Re-visiting stammering therapy from the perspective of the social model and stammering pride.
The Redefining Stammering blog, co-ordinated with the support of Patrick Campbell, aims to open up dialogue within the stammering community in order to extend the way stammering and stammering therapy is talked about and understood.