#45 The Invisibility of Stuttering with Dr. Hope Gerlach

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Hope Gerlach, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is an assistant professor at Western Michigan University. Her research focuses on identifying and reducing disparities in quality of life between people who stutter and typically fluent speakers. Currently, she is studying the role of stigma and identity constructs in psychological distress among adults who stutter. She has been actively involved in support organizations for people who stutter and has worked as a speech-language pathologist at several summer camps for youth who stutter.

Timestamps: 0:00-8:40: Introductions

8:40- 14:00: Story of the term neurological glitch, invisible disabilities, losing control when you are about to stutter

14:00-19:07: measuring stuttering, impact of it being invisible

19:26-28:29: SLP @ Western Mich; methods of stuttering; stuttering tax analogy (all the work that is going on behind the scenes and what it does/ what it costs you)

28:29-33:09: More on the stuttering tax and managing the stigma

34:00- 42:40: concealment and severity

42:55- 55:16: Vanderbilt research (explicit and implicit biases from SLPs about stuttering), may be a hardwired way of thinking that fluent speech is better

55:42- End: being an ally, invisible component, not everyone is struggling, closing remarks

Uri Schneider, M.A. CCC -SLP is co-founder and leader at Schneider Speech; creator of Transcending Stuttering Academy and faculty at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.

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