by Stephen Goedhart I have been a person who stutters my whole life. Many people who know me will probably be surprised to learn about this. It is because I use my speech targets – also known as skills – while I speak and thus will come across as speaking fluently. I went through a […]
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2015 Ottawa Race Weekend: Remembering Norm McEwen and Marie Poulos
The Ottawa Race Weekend is one of Canada’s premier race events and takes place every year near the end of May. The above photo shows Norm McEwen with some of the 2012 team members from the Stuttering Treatment Clinic. Standing tall as always among others, Norm was a long time advocate for people who […]
The First Time I Met Norm
As many of you know, Norm McEwen died unexpectedly last fall. This year the “Talking About Stuttering” team at the Stuttering Treatment Clinic in Ottawa is fundraising in the 2015 Ottawa Race Weekend in memory of Norm. I will always remember the first time I met Norm. Not an auspicious encounter for what later became […]
OAPWS Talks to First Year U of Ottawa Speech-Language Pathology Students
I had the pleasure (and public speaking now is a pleasure, believe it or not) to be a part of the threesome from the OAPWS that spoke to the first-year speech-language pathology students at the University of Ottawa. For the third year, Mrs. Lynn Metthe, who not only instructs and advises the first-year speech-language students, […]
SUPPORT PEOPLE WHO STUTTER BY SPONSORING OUR TEAM IN THE 2013 OTTAWA RACE WEEKEND
Members of OAPWS are participating in the 2013 Ottawa Race Weekend to raise money to enable teens and adults who stutter attend semi-intensive and intensive speech therapy programs at the Stuttering Treatment Clinic Centre.
Ottawa Library Presentation: Talking About Stuttering
Ottawa Public Library will hold a presentation on Talking About Stuttering at their Nepean Centrepointe Branch on April 27, 2013