Breaking 5 Stuttering Myths
What are the links between communication, leadership, innovation and stuttering?read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - March 28, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katherine Preston Tags: Anxiety Personality Resilience Work Defining success myth-busting stuttering vulnerability Source Type: news
Computer models solve geologic riddle millions of years in the making
An international team of scientists has used computer modeling to reveal, for the first time, how giant swirls form during the collision of tectonic plates -- with subduction zones stuttering and recovering after continental fragments slam into them. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - March 24, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Do Job Hunters Who Stutter Face Bias?
Title: Do Job Hunters Who Stutter Face Bias?Category: Health NewsCreated: 3/14/2014 2:35:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 3/17/2014 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General)
Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General - March 17, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Do Job Hunters Who Stutter Face Bias?
Participants in small British study reported rejection, unsuitable work
Source: HealthDay
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Source: MedlinePlus Health News - March 14, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Widespread discrimination against stammerers by employers
Employers are routinely discriminating against people who stammer, rejecting them because of concerns about possible negative reactions from customers or team members, new research suggests.A study by Dr Clare Butler, of Newcastle University Business School, published in the journal Work, Employment and Society says that people who stammer experience widespread prejudice in the jobs market.Thirty-six men from England and Wales, ranging in age from 21 to 65 years, were interviewed and all reported routine discrimination. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 12, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news
Employers 'routinely discriminating against stammerers'
(SAGE Publications) Employers are routinely discriminating against people who stammer, rejecting them because of concerns about possible negative reactions from customers or team members, new research suggests. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - March 10, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Learn Russian in a day
Tackling Russian in a day looked tricky – but with the aid of memory palaces, anything is possible ...• Learn how to protest in Russian – video• Five memory techniques for learning languagesThe formal "hello" in Russian is a necessary yet wholly unwelcoming word. It's packed with consonants that trip over each other, often within the same syllable. I try it over and over again, and only sound like I'm spitting. "Zdtras-vooy-tyeh." I am starting to hate it.I'm off to see a memory expert to find out if I can learn a language in a day, and I seem to have picked a particularly tricky one. When I arrive at their office,...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 7, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Rebecca Nicholson Tags: The Guardian Russia Language Features Life and style Languages Source Type: news
A dog's life? Readers share their pet stories
We asked Guardian readers to send in stories about how animals had affected their family life. Here's a selectionMurphy's lawless reignI first saw Murphy on the day my dad died. Dad would have loved him. We decided at once that this bundle of black labrador was what we needed to cheer us up. We had always had rescue dogs, but Murphy was the first puppy we ever had. He became my fourth child and was not much bigger than my husband's shoe. From that time of sadness came years of joy.Like all labradors he was driven by food and became adept at stealing it. At Christmas he stole the chocolate gifts hanging on the tree. He woul...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 1, 2014 Category: Science Tags: The Guardian Cats Family Birds Features Life and style Animal behaviour Pets Dogs Source Type: news
AUDIO: Palin helps children who stammer
Michael Palin visited the centre named after him which is dedicated to helping children who stammer. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - December 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The ins and outs of stammering at school
There are certain things that teachers can do to help stammerers simply by changing external factors which can ease the internal struggle, says Fiona Barry (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - December 19, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: The King's Speech Musharaf Asghar stammer speech therapist Fiona Barry stammerer stutter Source Type: news
Woman with cerebral palsy says 'smoking pot makes me a better mother'
Jacqueline Patterson, from Kansas City, Missouri, has a severe stutter and suffers incredible pain. But her symptom relief means she runs the risk of losing her four children. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How I've learned to accept my stutter with help from my stammering fiance
Katherine Preston, 29, from London, travelled to America to see groundbreaking stutter research and treatments – and fell in love with a fellow stutterer on the way. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
AUDIO: Ed Balls 'worried about stammer'
The Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has spoken out about the difficulties of having a stammer. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - November 12, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Retro Report: Hopeful Glimmers in Long War on Cancer
A Retro Report and a medical writer reflect on the grand hopes and stuttering progress of Richard Nixon’s “war on cancer.” (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - November 4, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By GINA KOLATA Tags: National Institutes of Health Women's Health Initiative Nixon, Richard Milhous Hormones Research Smoking and Tobacco Cancer Tests (Medical) Source Type: news
How Channel 4’s Educating Yorkshire Educated Us All
Musharaf Asghar has an acute stutter. He also has a sharp sense of humor and a seemingly boundless amount of courage. Most importantly perhaps, he has thrived in a compassionate school that exalts his triumphs.read more (Source: Psychology Today Personality Center)
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 30, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katherine Preston Tags: Child Development Education Personality Relationships Source Type: news
