Show Notes

Hosts Patrick Campbell and Maria Stewart are joined by Conor Foran and Sam Simpson to discuss Sam’s article Looking Back, Looking Forward from the book Stammering Pride and Prejudice: Difference not Defect. Sam’s article speaks to the frustration but also the hope of change in how stuttering is considered within the speech therapy profession. Together, they discuss topics like the power of the social model of disability, how people who stammer can make choices when it comes to different therapies, and how narratives around advancements in neuroscience may be damaging to stuttering and other disability movements.

Links

• Stammering Pride and Prejudice edited by Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino, Sam Simpson (2019)
• “Stammering activism and speech-language therapy: An inside view” by Sam Simpson (2016)
• “A social model of stammering” by Sam Simpson and Carolyn Cheasman (2000)
• Did I Stutter?
• Mustn’t Grumble: Writing by Disabled Women by Lois Keith (1994)
• Stuttering Commons
• The disabling nature of hope in discovering a biological explanation of stuttering by Prabhat, Ellen Rombouts and Pascal Borry (2022)
• The Stammering Collective
• “Stuttering and the social model” by Christopher Constantino, Patrick Campbell, and Sam Simpson (2022)
• Action for Stammering Children
• Beyond Aphasia: Therapies For Living With Communication Disability, by Carole Pound, Susie Parr, Jayne Lindsay, Celia Woolf (2000)

Sam Simpson is a Southwest London-based speech and language therapist, person-centered counsellor, supervisor, trainer, and stammering ally.

Conor Foran is a London-based Irish artist and designer who stutters.

How should stuttering look in text? Can representations of stuttering in written form reflect its spontaneity and variety? Host Patrick Campbell is joined by Chris Constantino and artist Conor Foran to discuss how Conor’s final project in art school led him to a decade-long project in creating a typeface, Dysfluent Mono, that represents stuttering. Conor explains how the font tries to escape stereotypical references of stuttering and his journey to publishing the magazine Dysfluent, which uses the font.

Links

• Conor Foran
• Dysfluent magazine
  • ‘Making Waves’ stuttering pride flag - Dysfluent magazine
  • Stuttering Can Create Time billboard by People Who Stutter Create collective
  • Stuttering Foundation of America
  • Portraits of people stammering - Paul Aston
  • JJJJJerome Ellis

• Willemijn Bolks
• Stutterology - Ezra Horak
• The Clearing - JJJJJerome Ellis

Chris Constantino is a stutterer and speech language pathologist at Florida State University who teaches stuttering and counselling to graduate students, and supervises therapy. Chris researches how we can make the experience of stuttering better.

Conor Foran is a London-based Irish artist who stutters. He is the founder of Dysfluent magazine, was a collaborator on the ‘making waves’ stuttering pride flag, and most recently collaborated with the People Who Stutter Create collective to create the Stuttering Can Create Time billboard.

What does it mean to be proud of one’s stutter? What does one gain from their stutter? Hosts Patrick, Maria, and Josh are joined by Chris Constantino to discuss his radical essay Stuttering Gain and dive into the world of stuttering pride. In this episode, they talk about the unique experience of stuttering and how we can find benefit in stuttering, as opposed to only thinking about stuttering as a lack of fluency. While the experience of stuttering is difficult, Chris argues that this doesn’t mean there is nothing we have to gain or be proud of.

Links

• Stuttering Gain by Chris Constantino (2016)
• Difference in Itself’: Validating Disabled People's Lived Experience by James Overboe (1999)
• The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning by Tanya Titchkosky (2011)
• Honest Speech by Erin Shick
  • Two access options: Youtube (no text version but video has captions, better audio); Voicemail Poems (with text, lower audio quality)
• Stammering Pride and Prejudice edited by Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino, Sam Simpson (2019)
• Forced Intimacy: An Ableist Norm by Mia Mingus (2017)
• Access Intimacy: The Missing Link by Mia Mingus (2011)
• Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error by Michael Davidson (2022)
• The Case for Conserving Disability by Rosemary Garland-Thomson (2012)
• The Gift of Stuttering by Ian Wilkie for TEDxFrensham (2022)
• On the Negative Possibility of Suffering: Adorno, Feminist Philosophy, and the Transfigured Crip To Come by Kelly Fritsch (2013)
• Conor Foran
• JJJJJerome Ellis

Chris Constantino is a stutterer and speech language pathologist at Florida State University who teaches stuttering and counselling to graduate students, and supervises therapy. Chris researches how we can make the experience of stuttering better.