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Hi, everybody.

Welcome to the Canstutter Canadian Stuttering Association.

Settling Association podcast.

I'm here today with a man I think needs no introduction.

And also as well as the stuttering awareness piece.

Well,

isn't there a university in the States that uses your book, Stuttering is Cool, as a textbook in their therapy book, training

Rebbe told him, strengthen your trust in Hashem.

Stuttering comes from nervousness.

The more you trust in Hashem, the less you'll stutter.

By trusting in Hashem, you won't stutter.

But it's a different thing to facilitate that.

So with, as you know, I've got a stammer.

And we did a whole campaign with Stammer a few years back, the British stammering organisation, about the lack of representation.

And like Ofcom looked at it all and said, yeah, there's a huge, it's being left behind in the representation of disability, of gender, of all these different things.

Stammering really isn't there.

They did like a YouGov survey, and I think one in 20 people could name a character in TV or film who stammers, and less than that could name more than one.

And when they did the top five characters who stammer, Rain Man and Forrest Gump were in there who stammered.

place of real authenticity.

Hi, everyone, and welcome to the Stuttering Foundation podcast.

This is Sarah McIntyre recording from Philly, and I am welcomed by return guest Susan Hamilton Burley.

Hi, Susan.

Well, it's always fun.

So last time we chatted, and listeners, I'll put a link in the description to our past episode, we had this idea for what we hope to be a mini-series.

We had this idea of taking some of the Stuttering Foundation practical resources and activities specifically from the School-Age Child Who Stutters Attitudes and Emotions workbook and and talking through how over the years we've evolved some of those activities or how they've inspired activities or conversations to support the school-aged child who stutters.

And so our last episode, which was our first one, is available and today we are going to follow suit in that trend and we're going to talk through the problem-solving plan within the workbook and we'll talk about it in general and some of the various uses and then we're going to zoom in and go through a role play where I'll be playing the student who stutters and we'll be talking through how we might go through that.

But before we kick off with that, I'm going to formally introduce Susan.

I used to be stammered.

I still stammer, but not...

Stammer, stammer, like...

I can have a conversation.

That's what we have in there.

Cork Today on C103.

Now, this week marks National Stuttering Awareness Week.

It's a time dedicated to challenging misconceptions, promoting empathy, and making sure that everyone in our community feels heard.

Around 50,000 people across Ireland live with a stutter.

For many- Everyday moments, anything from ordering a coffee, answering a question in class, or going for a job interview, can bring overwhelming anxiety.

But organizations like Stuttering Awareness Mental Wellbeing Ireland are working hard to change that narrative, reminding us that having a stutter should never mean having less of a voice.

Joining me on the line today is Cork's Hilary O'Callaghan, a member of the group, to share her own personal journey and to talk about the vital work that the organization does.

And I'm delighted to welcome Hilary to the program.

And they rejected it.

It was like 20 points from the things that I'm talking about now, like the Dewey, the Stammer, things like this.

And they just said, and there wasn't any fourth.

We were both out of front of each other.