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Ottawa Hospital To Close Its Stuttering Treatment Clinic After 43 Years!

Posted on: September 28th, 2015 by David Burton No Comments

In its recent round of funding cuts Dr. Jack Kitts CEO of the Ottawa Hospital announced that the Stuttering Treatment Clinic will close at the end of October 2015.

Reasons given by the Hospital for closing the clinic are that stuttering is not an illness requiring medical expertise and that the Hospital’s mandate is to care for Eastern Ontario’s “sickest” individuals and to not fund services that can be provided in the community.

Members of the Ottawa Association of People Who Stutter (OAPWS) have written to Dr. Kitts requesting a meeting with either him or one of his senior staff to discuss the reasons behind the closure and to suggest a delay in the closing date.

 

How Important Is The Stuttering Treatment Clinic To People Who Stutter? (more…)

ARE YOU A FORMER MEMBER OF SPEECHMASTERS OF OTTAWA?

Posted on: April 28th, 2012 by Tania Kamienski 1 Comment

Are you a former member of Speechmasters of Ottawa the self-help group for people who stutter that was very active in the 1980s and the early 1990s? This was a very large group that met in the Ottawa Rehabïlatation  Centre.  Marie Poulos was the speech therapist at the Stuttering Treatment Clinic at that time.

 

I, along with several other members of the current Ottawa Association of People Who Stutter (OAPWS) was also a member of the Speechmasters group and (more…)