NSA videos

CONFERENCE VIDEOS

The following copyrighted DVDs are made available with permission of the presenters and Tammy Flores, the Director of the National Stuttering Association. The DVDs were video-taped and edited by Tom Kuster, Professor of Communication at Bethany Lutheran College, and put online by Judy Kuster, chair of the Education and Resources committee of Division 4, Fluency Disorders of ASHA, and Professor of Communication Disorders at MSU, Mankato. The videos can be used for NSA meetings, for those who teach about stuttering, and for those who want to learn more about stuttering.

The cost for each DVD listed below is $10 ($5 for the materials, mailer, and postage, $2.50 for producing and copying the DVD, and $2.50 will be sent to the NSA).

To order, contact Judy Kuster.

Additional videos will be included below as soon as they are ready.

2004 NSA Convention - Baltimore, MD

Short clip from Senator Biden's keynote address (the entire DVD is about 2 hours long)

DVD: Keynote address: Senator Joseph Biden
In 2004, then Senator Biden agreed to be a keynote speaker at the NSA annual convention. He was scheduled for about 15 minutes but stayed for nearly two hours, addressing the convention and then responding to many questions from the audience. He talked freely about his struggles with stuttering while he was growing up and entertained the audience with many interesting stories. The DVD contains the entire address and question period.

DVD: Attitude is Everything
A 43 minute panel presentation by Junior (8 minutes), Vikesh (10 minutes), David (11 minutes), Bob (7 minutes) and Dale (6 minutes) sharing information about the importance of addressing attitudes and feelings about stuttering. Each individual presentation could be used as a discussion starter for an NSA meeting or in a class about stuttering. There are also four "discussion topics" provided on the DVD.

Covert Stuttering - 2004 and 2009 NSA conventions

DVD: Covert Stuttering Exposed

A single, nearly 2-hour DVD of panels on covert stuttering from the 2004 and 2009 NSA Conventions.

Covert Stuttering Exposed! - 2004 NSA convention
Covert Stuttering Exposed! - 2009 NSA convention

2009 NSA Convention - Scottsdale, AZ

DVD: Keynote address - McGraw Milhaven

A very entertaining 30 minute keynote and 20 minutes of responding to questions from the audience that would serve well for an NSA meeting or as part of any workshop about stuttering. Suitable for children and adults.

Information about the speaker from the NSA conference program:

Stuttering since he began talking, McGraw Milhaven hasn't let that stop him. After five years of sports talk and news talk at KFAB in Oaha, McGraw Milhaven moved to St. Louis and joined 'The Voice of St. Louis' KMOX. Shortly after leaving KMOX, Milhaven moved across town to the Big 550. . . . His nationally recognized talk talents have established McGraw Milhaven as a household name from the halls of the White House to kitchen tables all over the region. . . . Talkers Magazine has named him one of the country's best talk show hosts. . . . Milhaven's accomplishments are as lengthy as they are diverse, from broadcasting on the White House lawn, to being an embedded reporter with full access to the St. Louis Cardinals, from Super Bowls and Olympics, to air-to-air refueling missions on KC-135s with the Missouri National Guard, Milhaven not only tells the story, but brings you along for the experience.

DVD: Research Symposium

The research symposium provides scientific information about the latest developments in stuttering research on the treatment of stuttering from some of the nations' leading experts.

Larry Molt, Ph.D., CCC-SLP/A, BRFS, Associate Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Auburn University in Alabama and Director of the university's Neuroprocesses Research Laboratory. Dr. Molt's topic was assistive devices used to enhance fluency.
Dennis Drayna, Ph.D. is a Senior Investigator and Section Chief at the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Dr. Drayna's topic focused on the genetic aspects of stuttering.
Vivian Sisskin, MS, CCC/SLP, BRS-FD, is a clinical instructor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland. Ms. Sisskin focused on stuttering and concomitant disorders.
Gerald Maguire, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Kirkup Endowed Chair in Stuttering Treatment in the Department of Psychiatry and Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine. Dr. Maguire's topic was an update on potential pharmacological treatments.
Walt Manning, Ph.D., CCC/SLP, BRFS, Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Memphis. Dr. Manning provided insight into behavioral therapy for stuttering.

Each speaker was given about 12 minutes and the presentation has been divided up so that one of the presenters could be featured and discussed at an individual NSA meeting or in a course about stuttering. Three of the presenters also provide their PowerPoints which can be downloaded from a private URL which will be sent with the DVD.

last updated August 1, 2009