Friday, November 4, 2016

Orange County National Stuttering Association October 27, 2016 Meeting Update.



Hello all. I’m sorry to report there were only two members present at this meeting, including myself. This group has been together for about five years now. I don’t know why this happens.

The other member & myself decided to have the meeting anyway & we stayed the whole time. We had an interesting talk about different aspects of stuttering. The other member has developed a system of speaking that works very well for him.  He’s even written a book about it available on Amazon. Go here: 


(If this link doesn’t work, the name of the book is: Stuttering: Cause & Cure by T. C. Cascio)

His system involves what he calls “running the gauntlet” which is a way of doing away with secondary actions that have nothing to do with what you’re trying to say.

We also talked a little about the recent movie that was shown at Cal State Fullerton several weeks ago, “The Way We Talk”. I saw the movie & thought it was excellent. If you haven’t seen it, I strongly advise that you do. You can rent it or buy it on Vimeo.com.  It’s being shown again at Cal State San Marcos on December 2nd. Go here for more details:   http://www.thewaywetalk.org

The movie presents a couple of takes on stuttering  that I think are out of the ordinary.

That’s all for now. The next meeting is this coming Thursday, November 10. Let’s hope there’s more than two people there.