The Barry celebration continues!

Our trusty leader, Barry Guitar, will be receiving ASHA Honors in Denver this year — Go Barry and CONGRATS from Team Stuttering!!

Heard from Mike Turner, a person who stutters and the leader of the Portland, Oregon NSA Chapter. He made a cool documentary about stuttering called “The Way We Talk”, and the Vermont premiere will be Wednesday, November 4th 6:30 PM at the Brattleboro Film Festival!

It would be so cool to have local stuttering groups proudly represented at the screening! Anyone who might know how to get the film screened here in Burlington too – please share your insider tips!

Here’s a trailer for The Way We Talk.

Also, here’s a link to the festival’s website with info about the screening. The film is at the very bottom.

Go Team!

The Stutter Board Game is coming together!  We’re making copies to share with local schools, so let us know if you want to borrow one!

We made up the game pieces, which are photos of famous people who stutter, and all of the game questions.  We thought it would help people who don’t stutter learn more about stuttering and understand why we practice voluntary stuttering as part of the game if we added an “info sheet”. The group is going to come up with their ideas about that next time.

Hope to see folks at our next meeting on October 8th, when we’re going to start a penpal activity with another group and keep working on the game — Go Team!!

We had a terrific group for our first session of the school year! Barry let us borrow his “Stutterers Rock” banner, which was worn for the opening words.

We had two new faces in group, and there was plenty of commiserating about how introducing yourself to a group of people is like a “firing squad”, how ordering food at a restaurant can be more than frustrating (wish pointing at the food pictures would do the trick), and how self-advertising as a person who stutters is terribly difficult, but often means you stutter less and the listener is more patient.

Our take home thought was to come up with a few ways that stuttering is actually  a positive — such as it allows you to be an empathetic and caring listener. Love having newbies!

We’re keen to start up our own Toastmaster’s Group and would love the group’s input.  Check out the King’s Speakers and let us know if you have ideas — Go Team Stuttering!