🔤 Description
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Many are afraid of stuttering. Through understanding what we’re afraid of, we can demystify stuttering, reduce stigma and increase healthy courage and social inclusion for all stakeholders.
*SLPs receive a certificate of attendance eligible for 1CMH credit
🎯 Agenda
Who is afraid? Parents, SLPs, Teachers, Children, Teens and Adults
What are we afraid of?
Can we co-create better terms of understanding and relating to stuttering?
What would life/world look like with less stigma and more inclusion.
What would we hear?
What would we feel?
đź’Ş Attendee Take-Aways
The word "gift" has two meaning in the Swedish language: "married" and "poison".
Understand the duality of the "stuttering is a gift"
"Children do as you do, not as you're saying."
Identify practical ways we (Parents, SLPs, Teachers and People Who Stutter) can reframe stuttering.
How to talk about stuttering
How to adapt behavior towards stuttering
Explore the lived experiences, cognitive beliefs and attitudes and emotional feelings school-age children and teens who stutter
​🎤 Presenter
Anita Blom, Keynote Speaker, Award-winning Stuttering Activist and Proud Person Who Stutters, born and raised in the Netherlands, is living in Sweden. She worked as an operation manager for the Workers’ Educational Association. She has been a board member, including chairperson, of stuttering organizations on local, national, European and International level, and an advisory board member of several international stuttering organizations. She was a national and international keynote speaker on stuttering, had her own stuttering consultant company, was one of the Stutter Social hosts, was a project leader of several major stuttering projects, and twice Member of the Year. She was also a leader of national and international children and youth camps for over 20 years. Anita, aka Scatsis, has stuttered since she was 9 and had a troublesome youth because of her stuttering. She went from being silent, to giving stuttering a voice, from pre-school children to the European Parliament, now inspiring people who stutter of all ages, they can make a difference. Do check out her papers to the ISAD online conferences. Due to health issues she now has to take it slow, but is still an inspiration to many, acknowledged by Voice Unearthed on the Wall Of Inspiration, STAMMA, and many others. Her slogan, is used all around the world; “Sure I stutter. What are you good at?”
Anita has been proudly associated with Skaraborgs Stuttering Chapter, Swedish Stuttering Association, Stamily, and the International Stuttering Association, and International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD).
“Inspirational influencer" - Twice awarded as "Member of the year" Video here.
Awarded as "Inspiration of the Year" for starting a swimming school for women.
We are grateful to Anita for her contributions on the Advisory Team at Transcending Stuttering and significant contributions to the eBook and so much more.