What we as audiologists and speech-language pathologists believe about ourselves, others, and the world around us influences our work at least as much as our knowledge of audiology and communication sciences and disorders, according to speech-language pathologist Ellen-Marie Silverman, Ph.D. A Fellow of the American Speech-Hearing-Language Association, she believes the more clearly we as practitioners perceive our personal core beliefs, which reside below the level of casual awareness, the more effective we can be meeting clients' and caregivers' concerns. In "Mind Matters," she introduces a...

A compact resource "Relief From Stuttering" offers direction and support to individuals working on their own or in support groups to speak with greater ease and information to share with family, friends, and acquaintances to help them understand more fully what it can mean to have a stuttering problem and what can be involved resolving one. "Relief From Stuttering" reminds us we are more likely to experience ease by embracing what we fear than by resisting it. Inspirational in tone, practical in application these 12 papers presented at International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conferences...

In "attuning mind," thoughts and feelings become morsels to sample. Stacked up, three per page, the haiku offered here invite us to consider life and the living of it as a new adventure or to dive more deeply into an already lived one. Refreshing, provoking, amusing, stimulating, soothing, these verbal concoctions invite respite from same-old, same-old by cuing us to consider what else, what more, and why not for each of us singly and collectively. In this, her first volume of poetry, Ellen-Marie Silverman shares 108 haiku written from 2008 to 2015 about subjects ranging from loving to...

Jason Loring, about to enter high school, yearns to succeed. The stutter that darkened his life no longer overwhelms him. By his reckoning, he has "kicked stuttering to the side of the road" and won. The year has been one of searching for a way to withstand the chaos, loneliness, and brutality of family life and to rebound from the aftermath of a hate crime. A circle of friends, "The Fresh Air Five," each of whom faces challenges of his or her own, supports him and each other as they wend their way toward high school and beyond. Jason's story is one of bravery, first love, and the refinement...

Two critical events change Jason Loring's life. We witness him step onto a path both unfamiliar and well known to him to claim the dream that is his own. A stand-alone tale, "SheGate" completes The Jason Loring Trilogy that begins with "Jason's Secret" in which Jason is 10 and desperate to hide his stuttering. It continues in "winning" where at 13-14 he searches for a place for himself beyond the town in which he lives. And in "SheGate," we notice he has become comfortable with himself even at his grittiest and that stuttering holds no more importance to him than the red hair growing on his...

Jason Loring is beginning fifth grade in a new school. He hopes this time, this one time, he will fit in. He is smart. He dresses cool. And he's good at chess. But whenever he starts to talk, he never knows whether IT will happen and he will look and sound weird, bad weird. That can make him explode. What happens at the new school, why his father shares his secret, and how Jason changes leads to acceptance at last. "Jason's Secret. Complete Edition" is the first volume of The Jason Loring Trilogy, the story of a life lived and lived with a stuttering problem. "winning: a novel" in which he is...