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Published: Wednesday, 02 September 2020 14:59
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Written by CSA Admin
Are you passionate about the CSA's mission of supporting Canadians who stutter and their families? Do you have excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills and have project management experience? This is an opportunity for you to develop event planning, management, and leadership skills. You will help to raise awareness in stuttering by connecting others through meaningful events and developing much needed programs. Read the position posting here. Send your Resumé or CV and cover letter to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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Published: Tuesday, 01 September 2020 22:03
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Written by CSA Admin
On Thursday, August 27th, the CSA’s fundraising committee organized their first online virtual event to connect with Canadians who stutter and their supporters on Zoom. We had over sixty attendees sign up for this event where they watched a series of thought-provoking films and discussed key topics on stuttering related to self-acceptance, coping, speech therapy, and more.
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Published: Tuesday, 01 September 2020 21:58
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Written by CSA Admin
We’re excited to announce registration for our “Branching Out” Virtual Conference will be open on Monday, October 5, 2020! This year’s conference will be delivered entirely via video conferencing platform Zoom. All of the features you expect from a CSA conference will be here: breakout sessions, networking, and keynotes including comedian and author Nina G!
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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Wednesday, 02 September 2020 10:58
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Written by Lisa Wilder
In 1936, a statuesque 20-year-old named Mary Dowell was hired as a dancing girl for an extravagant Texas Centennial celebration in her home town of Fort Worth. Until then she had been, in her own words, “looked upon as a sort of freak” due to her height and pronounced stutter. “When I walked down the street people would look at me and grin, like I was the town idiot. I was the unhappiest girl in Texas.”
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Category: Book Reviews
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Published: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:54
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Written by Lisa Wilder
Dr. Bob G Bodenhamer is a clinician and a certified trainer of Neurolinguistic Processing, or NLP, who applies its principles to the treatment of stuttering. His books on the subject are I Have a Voice: How to Stop Stuttering and Mastering Blocking and Stuttering: A Cognitive Approach to Fluency.
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Category: Personal Commentary
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Published: Friday, 07 August 2020 13:31
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Written by CSA Admin
Mike Wilson has dealt with stuttering all his life, and is active at conferences and in the stuttering community, including interviewing people who stutter on his podcast, Stuttering with Confidence.
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