Back speaking with Christine Tournier on her Exploring Research for Clinical Practice podcast this month and reflecting on key influences in the development of stammer-affirming narratives that could possibly be helpful to the cluttering community. You can listen to the conversation here. Sam Simpson Redefining Stammering
Thank you Christine Tournier for your interest in my recent work developing a stammering-affirming practice framework. You can listen here to our conversation for the Exploring Research for Clinical Practice podcast, in which I give an overview of the development of Reflect in collaboration with Stuttering Commons, an app that visualises stammering with the aim … read more…
Honored to be chosen by Conor Foran to take part in the Disorderly Voices podcast hosted by Patrick Campbell and Maria Stewart to discuss my chapter Looking Back, Looking Forward in the 2019 book Stammering Pride and Prejudice: Difference not Defect, co-edited together with Patrick Campbell and Christopher Constantino. You can listen to our conversation … read more…
As a speech-language therapist, a person who stutters, and a doctoral candidate researching stigma and representation, I often find myself navigating two seemingly distinct worlds: the clinical and the critical. The ‘Bridging Dysfluency Theory and Clinical Practice’ workshop series was the first training I encountered that deliberately built a bridge between these worlds – namely … read more…
I have grown up smothered by a veil of shame, too scared to speak or even open my mouth. My stammer was “crippling” or “disabling” and it defined every inch of my being and my experiences. There was not only a lack of pride (I never dreamt that pride and stammering could be used in … read more…
What is the impact of childhood intervention on those who continue to stutter into adulthood? Many adults have shared their experiences in memoirs, on podcasts, in blogs, etc. and most of those experiences are stories of recovery – not from stuttering, but from the impact of earlier therapy. Parents can benefit from reading these accounts, … read more…