You don't have to be a sports fan to appreciate Ryan Cowley's memoir about his life so far. It's a story about a young man who has been dealt his share of challenges and setbacks - stuttering being one of them - yet his positive outlook towards life wins out.
As someone who only began reaching out to the stuttering community in recent years, I wonder what took me so long. Then again, as the old adage goes, better late than never.
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.
Disability Visibility: First Person stories from the Twenty-First Century, is a collection of essays by and about disabled people. Editor Alice Wong is an award-winning writer and activist for disability rights.
Jordan Scott is an award winning, world-renowned Canadian poet who has stuttered his whole life. His first book of poetry published in 2006, Silt, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. His second body of work, Blert in 2008, directly addresses the experience of stuttering and language. He is also the author of Night & Ox, among other works.
This is the third and final part of a review and analysis of Marc Shell’s 2005 text, Stutter. (Read Part 1 and Part 2). Shell is a Montreal-born professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard. He explores the significance of stuttering in an unusually broad scope of history, society, human evolution and culture.