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Without Hesitation: Speaking to the Silence and the Science of Stuttering |
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Written by Lisa Wilder
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011 17:49 |
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This article is a review of Gerald Maguire's Without Hesitation: Speaking to the Silence and the Science of Stuttering first appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of CSA Voices.
 Gerald A. Maguire is an Associate Pressor of Clinical Psychiatry, and Senior Associate Dean of Educational Affairs, at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. He is also the director of the Kirkup Center for the Medical Treatment of Stuttering. This is the only research centre in the world dedicated exclusively to this field of study – the treatment of stuttering through medicine.
Gerald Maguire is a person who stutters, as well as being a clinician and researcher. Without Hesitation is written not for pathologists or other doctors but for people who do not have a scientific background.
During his education and career, Maguire found that even among his professional, well-educated peers there existed “a shocking lack of knowledge about stuttering.” He is extremely dedicated to educating people and to helping those who stutter. He also knows that some people are uncomfortable about the idea of taking drugs for stuttering.
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Written by Teresa Hughes
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 This article first appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of CSA Voices.
Theresa's father, Mike Hughes, published the Speak Easy newsletter out of his home in New Brunswick for many years. He died in September of 2010.
When Dad started Speak Easy in 1984 I was 20, my brother Scot was 14 and the baby of the family, Brian, was 13. We were introduced to readers in his Speak Easy Newsletter articles: “Daddy’s Girl”, “Watching Scottie Grow” and “Brian’s World,” and he wrote about mom in “Marriage Vows”.
You may not know this, but Dad was involved in helping others challenged with speech long before the inception of Speak Easy.
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Mike Hughes, a Canadian pioneer for stuttering support and self-help |
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Written by Carla Di Domenicantonio
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This article was originally published in the Winter 2011 issue of CSAVoices.
 I reacted with numbing sadness and disbelief when news arrived that Mike Hughes had passed away on September 22nd, 2010.
Over many years, Mike had been a friend, a supporter and a mentor. We were linked by a common interest in stuttering.
For 22 years Mike Hughes was the Executive Director of Speak Easy Canada Inc., Canada’s first, charitable organization for people who stutter, which he founded in 1984. Based in Saint John, New Brunswick, Mike was already involved in helping those who, like him, stuttered.
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