for 1999
What's New from 1997
What's New from 1998
This is a history of what was added in 1999 - all external links from this page have been disconnected. External links that are still functioning are still part of the Stuttering Home Page. Most of the internal additions made to the Stuttering Home Page are still functioning from this page.
December
Ann Vallack Dewar added to "Remembering the contributions of those who have passed on."
http://www.stutteringhomepage.com domain name purchased for the Stuttering Home Page
Is There a Genetic Basis for Stuttering? by John C. Harrison
The Pebble and the Penguin, I, Claudius, and Billy Budd added to movies that portray stuttering.
Remembering Scatman John - a threaded discussion for posting memories or feelings.
Examples of a remediational folk myth and an etiological folk myth added to Folk Myths about Stuttering.
Therapy idea added to Suggestions for Treating Cluttering
An example of cooperation between ASHA and the National Council on Stuttering to get a poster pulled from the market.
Loss of Innocence by Michael Hughes
The Rage by Michael Hughes
Marriage Vows by Michael Hughes
C-C-C-Cold Enough For You? by Michael Hughes
Fear Therapy? by Michael Hughes
57 new entries added to Annotated Bibliography on Stuttering
Information about the video Danny and the Scatman
Review by Ken St. Louis of The Adventures of Phil Carrot: The Forest of Discord by Michael Sugarman and Kim Swain
NJ Youth Day: Celebrating Me/Taming The Speech Monster by Lucy Reed.
Links established to:
- On Screen: Stuttering voice Jones conquered comes in handy for
his latest role news article by Jack Garner, Gannett News Service.
- Website about Jake Eberts - film producer who stutters.
- Website about Jack Harold Paar - former talkshow host and comedian who stutters.
- Sometimes I Just Stutter by Eelco de Geus who lives in the Netherlands and translated by Elisabeth Versteegh-Vermeij, is a book written especially for children who stutter and put online by the Stuttering Foundation of America.
- The Retz Approach - an outcome-based therapy for the treatment of stuttering.
November
Diane Parris, MS Boston University, stuttering course syllabus
Patrick Canning remembers Shady Trails
Added a Clinical Nugget from Vol 9 No. 3 Special Interest Division 4 Newsletter.
Links established to
- British Columbia Clinics and Private Practices that provide therapy for stuttering, listed by language.
- Stuttering still mystifies medical doctors, psychologists and those who have it November 16, 1999, Detroit Free Press.
- From the Stuttering Center of Western Pennsylvania
- Helping Children Who Stutter Develop Healthy Communication Attitudes
- Information for Parents of Disfluent Children
- Icelandic Teachers' Attitudes towards Stuttering and Classroom Decision Making, by Louise B. Heite. A poster session at the ASHA convention, November 1999, San Francisco, CA.
October
International Stuttering Awareness Day 1999 Online Conference
Stuttering: A team approach workshop, Toronto, CA, October 23, 1999
On Being Different by John C. Harrison.
Sad by Shiran Israel
Submission to Experiences in School - some good and some not so good from Sally Butcher
Some good examples to show your friends contains a few sound and video clips especially for kids.
Fragile Speak an original poem by John T. Solomon
Reports from the European League of Stuttering Associations Conference Vienna, Austria, 1998
A few pictures taken by Gretchen Fifer after the Celebration of Life Memorial Service.
Niccolo Fontana, nicknamed Tartaglia(stammerer) because of his speech added to Famous People Who Stuttered - an Italian mathematician famous for his algebraic solution of cubic equations. Read about what caused his speech problems and decide for yourself if he stuttered or not.
October 22 is International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD) - article in the Badger Herald by Paul Engelman
Kenneth E. Boulding - economist, added to Famous People Who Stutter
Links established to
- Course syllabus from John A. Tetnowski - University of Louisiana-Lafayette
- Unscrambling the Stuttering Hexagon by John C. Harrison, workshop - December 11th 1999, Columbus, Ohio
- BreathMaker is a piece of shareware ($30) which claims to provide real-time auditory and visual feedback (spectrum control and DAF - delayed auditory feedback). The developer in Moscow, Russia, states that it works under WINDOWS95/98/NT with any full duplex sound cards.
- Mario D'hont from Ghent, Belgium - in both English and Dutch.
September
Cheers episode added to Stuttering in Television
Notes about Charles Van Riper from a former graduate assistant, William Shearer
A memory shared by Kay Bulter, added to the Van Riper page Things Remembered
Experiences in School - some good and some not so good- shared for others to learn.
A mailing list called STAM-L for people speaking Swedish,
Norwegian or Danish added to discussion forums about stuttering.
Urban Legend added to Movies about Stuttering.
My Story by Michael Susca added to Personal Paths Toward Recovery
Information about new mailing lists, SLPSWHOSTUTTER, a closed list for SLPs active in the stuttering community or SLP students who stutter and STUTTER, an open list for people who stutter, added to Discussion forums about stuttering
Information about Spoonerisms
Blow And Bluster by Charles James added to PWS Speak for Themselves.
College students who stutter and public speaking assignments
Stuttering begins at age 15and What I Think Caused My Stuttering added to Case Studies.
Oliver Bloodstein and Marty Jezer added to Awards and Recognition
A memory shared by Gary Sparage, added to the Joseph Sheehan page Things Remembered
Links established to:
- Information about a conference,
Intervention and Support for Individuals Who Stutter Akron, Ohio, October 1-2. 1999.
- Carlos A. Vegh's Stuttering: Theory (or lack thereof) and Practice (lots of it)
- OnLine Health's archive of their live online interviews contains Overcoming Stuttering with Barry Guitar. Links are provided to access the interview with Windows Media Player or Real Media Player.
- Reviews of some therapy programs from the British Stammering Association
- An evaluation of a computerised fluency shaping programme By Dr. Trudy Stewart and Monica Bray.
- The David McGuire Courses for People Who Stammer - reviewed by Claire McNeil and Dr. Trudy Stewart.
- The Lidcombe Programme - information and reviews.
- Therapie-Sommercamp fuer stotternde Kinder and Jugendliche sponsored by the Oesterreich-Selbsthilfe-Initiative Stottern.
- Finding Little Bear is a story about a little girl named Ursula, who happens to stutter. It was written by a student in college, Amanda Pitchford, as an assignment.
- Information about stuttering - Russian
- The New Scientist Magazine has published some articles about stuttering that may be of interest.
- Brain regions stutter to a halt By Alison Motluk From New Scientist, 13 July 1996
- Cutting out stuttering Brain surgery was once kept for devastating disorders. Now it may become a treatment for a speech defect. From New Scientist, 1 February 1997
- Twinning techniques to map the mind From New Scientist, 10 May 1997
- The right strokes for some folks
- Joe Kalinowski's graduate course syllabus.
August
Stuttering and Parkinson's Disease
An announcement page was added to announce ISAD99 events. Two events were announced - the ISAD99 Online conference and "Walk and Talk around the World."
Bibliography related to Neurogenic Stuttering by Patrick Coppens
Nan Ratner's updated course syllabus.
Workshop Day for Kids/Teens Who Stutter, Their Families and Their SLPs Saturday, Oct. 16, 8:30 - 3:30, Payson-Smith Hall, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
The Power of Observation by John C. Harrison.
Two suggestions added to Folk Myths about Stuttering
The Hawthorne Effect And It's Relationship To Stuttering by John C. Harrison
Steve Hood's updated course syllabus.
Proclamation for ISAD98 City of Pittsburgh
Just for Kids revised and updated, adding several new sections.
Information added to Stuttering portrayed on television and Stuttering portrayed in the movies
Links established to:
- Howard Schwartz's Institute for Communicative Disorders
- Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech
July
How My Stuttering Ended by Miriam Mondlin
Sign by William T. Evetts
Beginnings of a Bibliography of Bryng Bryngelson's work
Post by John Wade added to discussion of the Giving up - or just facing reality about career choices and stuttering.
Updated and expanded article of Speaking Circles by John C. Harrison.
More information about Shady Trails added by Rod Abbott
Edited and expandedRuss Hicks "Another Path Toward Recovery."
Vicki Benson Schutter's contribution to "On the Lighter Side."
Marty Leisner added Edison: Wizard of Light (1998, HBO) and CSS Hunley (TNT, 1999) to the made for TV movie database that portrays stuttering in the media.
New book by Marcel Wingate added to the Bookstore
"Our World" added to Letters from a father to his 10 year old daughter who stutters.
Kurt Vonnegut's Jailbird added to books that portray a person who stutters.
Information on Annie Glenn added to Famous People Who Stutter
Letter from Charles Van Riper to Andreas Starke
A Grafted Tongue by John Montague, a Northern Irish poet, essayist and story writer, added to Creative Expression.
Links established to:
- Stutt-L archives
- Speak Easy of Canada has an Electronic Newletter Digest and information on how to receive new copies via email on their home page.
- Lee Glickstein's Speaking Circles, International
- ABC/CAPS National Conference - August 19-21, 1999
- The Starfish Project, in the United Kingdom.
- Pictures from the 1999 NSP/NSA convention, Seattle, WA.
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Marty Leisner's
- Russ Hick's
- All Japan GeNyukai Association - information about stuttering, in Japanese.
- Ajit Harisinghani's The Speech Foundation, India, in Pune, India.
- Ann Landers' column, June 17, 1998
June
Online examples of what stuttering sounds, looks and feels like
Online Student Journal of Fluency Disorders, and paper by Ian Roth & Deryk Beal, Teasing And Bullying Of Children Who Stutter
You Can Call Me by Vicki Schutter.
Links established to:
- News Unlimited: The Guardian article Stammerers targeted by school bullies by John Carvel, Education Editor Friday June 4, 1999
May
Several songs depicting stuttering added.
On Charles Van Riper by Bob Erickson
The Van Ripers remember Bryng Bryngelson
Other Late-life Thoughts of Dr. Charles Van Riper from Hospice News.
Added two of the Clinical Nuggets from Vol 9 No. 2 Special Interest Division 4 Newsletter.
Links established to
- Online Transcription Training Course for stuttering and fluent speech includes 8 Examples of Transcription of Stuttering, with audio.
- Kidscape, a site that deals with bullying of children.
- Art Therapy
- Ludo Max's Orofacial Motor Control Lab contains information and links to related to stuttering and oral motor control.
- Stuttering: A First-Hand Account by Sonia Kunkle and a related article Resources for Stuttering from AmericasDoctor Online, May 13 and14, 1999.
- Clinicians Comments about Neurofeedback
- Links to >Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center by Duncan C. Kinder
- Irish Stammering Association
- The Land of Fluency by Darrell Dodge
April
Subscription information for Speak Easy's new e-pubication added to Discussion Forums and Electronic Publications about stuttering.
The Space Inside My Name by Jesse Loesberg, added to Creative Expression.
A discussion from Stutt-L about Giving up - or just facing reality.
Shady Trails - remembering a speech camp in Michigan.
Several additions made to Famous People Who Stutter
Stuttering in the Visual Arts
Folk Myths about etiology and treatment for stuttering.
Bryng Bryngelson added to Hall of Fame.
Added six citations to the Joseph Sheehan bibliography
A Presentation for my Class by Cate, age 10, added to Just for Kids.
Lessons Learned from Rock Climbing by Brad, 8th grade, added to Just for Teens.
Three additional books about stuttering were added to Bookstore
Guest Editorial: To our Clinicians by Charles Van Riper
Teacher Checklist-Fluency designed by Nina Reardon for clinicians to use to facilitate information sharing and consultation with the teacher of a child who stutters.
International Stuttering Awareness Day, 1999 announcement
The JPEGs of a 5 page ASHA Convention Speech by Charles Van Riper. Also available as straight text.
Three items added to Van Riper "journal."
Van Riper Tribute and a Joseph Sheehan story from Gretchen Guck Fifer, WMU 1954, University of South Carolina 1979
Several new fun links added to Some great places to visit (and other "good stuff") on the Just for Kids Page.
Links established to
- Michael Gruzuk's real audio, "Why Do You Talk Like This? Beyond the Stuttering Voice": Part One | Part Two | Part Three
- The Development of Confident Speech by Noel Trimming.
- Learning to live with stuttering from The Hampshire Daily Gazette.
- Web page for the mailing list STOT-ML
- Fluency Master home page
- Speak Easy of New Jersey
- Stuttering As A Disability Under The Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 by William D. Parry.
- Einer Boberg's Contribution to the Self-Help Movement by Jaan Pill, from the CAPS site.
March
Looking for a Little Hope by Christopher Kessler, age 16.
Don't You Know by Sergio Torres.
Touched by an Angel episode featuring a person who stutters, added to stuttering portrayed on TV
Added two new books (It and The Beans of Egypt, Maine) to Stuttering in Contemporary Literature
When I Stutter, by Blake, age 8, added to Just for Kids.
Additions to Clinical Nuggets
"Getting an A+ - for a school SPEAKING presentation?! by Gina Waggott
My Toastmasters Experience by Tom Scharstein,
Links established to
- Two current research projects - looking for participation.
- Questionnaire looking at the relationship between bilingualism and stuttering, a study by a research group at University College London, sent by Nicole Charles .
- Questionnaire looking at "Le Petit Mort", a study by Lou Heite, Temple University.
- Association des jeunes begues du Quebec, for young people who stutter between the ages of 2 and 25.
- Down Syndrome And Stuttering, a brochure originally produced by the BSA and placed online by the SFA.
- Information about stuttering in the Welsh language.
- Norway's Norsk Interesseforening for Stamme
- Stuttering Center of Western Pennsylvania
- ERIC digest article, >Bullying in Schools by Ron Banks.
- Tourette Disorder by Internet Mental Health
- ASHA's Special Interest Division #4, Fluency and Fluency Disorders.
- Vzw BeSt - Belgium self-help organization.
- International Fluency Association home page.
- Information about the 3rd World Congress, scheduled for August 7-11, 2000, Nyborg, Denmark.
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Fourth Annual Stuttering And Fluency Bibliography from the International Fluency Association.
February
Wendell Johnson And Charles Van Riper: A Remembrance of Them and Their Era by Dave Williams
FRIENDS Stuttering Presentation Guide by John Ahlbach.
Clinical Nuggets from the Special Interest Division#4 Newsletter.
Information about Anthony Caruso's CDROM added to the Bookstore
Addition to On the lighter side by Robert Morschel
Links established to
- Dallas NSP Chapter homepage.
- Materials from the British Stammering Association
- BSA members investigate the Del Ferro Institute which claims a cure for stammering and A Dutch correspondent advises caution.
- Facing the Authorities by Stuart Ford, Ron Kennedy and Carl Robison.
- Latest issue of CAPS NEWS January 1999
- Stutter by Joshua Morse
- Stuttering Therapy- two sides of the coin, by Hugo Gregory
- Stuttering and Teasing by Gail Wilson Lew.
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Stuttering: A Brief Review by Michael Lawrence, M.D. and David Barclay III, M.D., M.P.H. published in American Family
Physician, May 1, 1998
- "Stuttering," >an article on stuttering from a physician's view by Ralph Gemelli, MD
January
Added four new books that feature people who stutter, to Stuttering in Contemporary Literature
Information on how to download A Hypercard Program about Stuttering made by Tim to educate his classmates about stuttering.
Mis-Step by Emily added to Creative Expression.
A Wonderful Card by Russ Hicks, added to People Who Stutter Speak for Themselves.
Information about Botox (Botulinum toxin) used in the treatment of stuttering.
Yukio Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Vintage Books (1994) and a short review added to Stuttering in Popular Literature
Enjo (1958), based on The Pavilion of the Golden Temple a novel by Yukio Mishima added to Movies that portray people who stutter.
Trois Vies et Une Seule Mort (Three Lives & Only One Death) added to Movies that portray people who stutter.
Anecdote from Bonnie Weiss added to "On The Lighter Side."
Murder in a Small Town, a made-for-TV movie, added to Television Portrayals of People Who Stutter
The lyrics to "Stutter Rap (No sleep till bedtime)" by Morris Minor & the Majors added to Songs About Stuttering
New course syllabus from Dr. Robert Quesal.
Organizing Your Workshop a practical guide to organizing a local or regional workshop for Children Who Stutter, compiled by Michael Sugarman.
Par Barker's Regeneration trilogy, composed of three novels Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road and Terry Prachett's Equal Rites added to Stuttering in Contemporary Literature, along with brief reviews by the individuals who suggested adding them.
The entire fifth edition (minus appendix and footnotes) of Self-Therapy for the Stutterer, by Malcolm Fraser. (This is in one large file of 138K)
Dates and contact information added to conference page about SID4 Leadership Conference (San Diego, CA), Speak Easy of New Jersey Symposium (Montvale, New Jersey), Canadian Stuttering Conference, FRIENDS Annual Convention (Boston, USA), Bundesvereinigung Stotterer-Selbsthilfe e.V Annual Congress, Australian Speak Easy Association National Convention, and 3rd World Congress on Fluency Disorders (Nyborg, Denmark), 5th British Stammering Association National Conference in Manchester from 8-10 October 1999.
Added a book review by Sarah, of a book for ages 9-13 to the suggested books for kids to read. Hansen, Joyce, I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly - The Reconstruction Era Diary of Patsy (Dear America), Scholastic Trade, 1997.
Links established to
- Information about NSP's 16th Annual Convention in Seattle, WA.
- The Combined Health Information Database which has over 150 abstracts to articles about stuttering.
- Stuck for words? Word Retrieval Difficulties in Children by Caroline Bowen, provides several activities that may be suitable for children whose disfluencies reflect word-finding problems.
- Gina Waggott's Scatman Webpage
- The Chicago Stuttering Society, an independent nonprofit self-help group created to provide information, advocacy.
- One Voice, January 1999, the newsletter of the International Stuttering Associations
- Erlon Bailey's information about the Telephone Voice Changer, an inexpensive electronic device that he says "can be easily converted into an inexpensive anti-stuttering device."
last modified Decebmer 18, 1999
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