Stuttering Management Workshop at EWU

Eastern Washington University hosts a Stuttering Management Workshop, an intensive summer workshop for people working to manage a stuttering disorder at the University Hearing and Speech Clinic on the EWU Spokane Campus. Developed and utilized for more than 35 years at Eastern, the Successful Stuttering Management Program (SSMP) has helped hundreds of clients learn the tools needed to gain control and confidence in their daily interactions with others.

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Sat., July 22, 2017

Charly Olson smiles at her reflection in a two-way mirror Friday during a speech therapy session on Friday, July 14, 2017, at Eastern Washington University’s Health Science Building. Working with her, from left in foreground, are clinicians Braeden Boast, Sarah Naglich and Siarah Myron.

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Tim Kinkaid reads a letter he wrote about the challenges of being a stutterer to clinician Bailey Bergdahl on Friday, July 14, 2017, at Eastern Washington University’s Health Science Building.
This is part of a letter Tim Kinkaid wrote about the challenges of being a stutterer. He read it to clinician Bailey Bergdahl on Friday, July 14, 2017, at Eastern Washington University’s Health Science Building.

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Kunal Mahajan, a banker from New York City who participated in an Eastern Washington University program to work on his stuttering problem, leaps from a swaying platform to a trapeze bar at Adventure Dynamics, a ropes course near Riverside State Park, as part of a confidence-building exercise on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

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Kunal Mahajan, a banker from New York City, wears a smile as Angel Candido, a speech pathology graduate student from Washington State University, unbuckles him from a support rope at Adventure Dynamics, a ropes course near Riverside State Park, on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Mahajan participated in an Eastern Washington University program to work on his stuttering problem.

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Travis Althouse leaps for a trapeze bar Wednesday, July 12, 2017, at Adventure Dynamics, a ropes course near Riverside State Park. Althouse is a stutterer and was in the Spokane area for a two-week speech therapy program offered through Eastern Washington University.

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