Possible Cancellation of January Meeting and "The King's Speech"

The NC Triad chapter of the National Stuttering Association is scheduled to meet next Tuesday 1/11/11 from 7-9pm in the Benbow Room on the ground floor of Elliott University Center on the campus of UNCG. However, the potential winter weather may cancel our meeting. If you are on our chapter listserve, you will get an email on Tuesday if the meeting is cancelled. An announcement will also be posted on this webpage.

On a separate note, if you haven't gotten a chance to go see the movie "The King's Speech" it is playing at Carousel Cinemas (www.carouselbattleground.com) off Battleground. I highly recommend it!

September Meeting Agenda

The NC Triad chapter of the National Stuttering Association will be meeting next Tuesday September 14th from 7-9pm in the Benbow room on the ground floor of Elliott University Center on the campus of UNCG. We will be watching the video from the closing ceremony of this year's NSA conference and talk about our first stuttering therapy technique in our series on various techniques taught in stuttering therapy. Additionally, we will be talking about an exciting opportunity that will happen in October. Come to the meeting (or email me at nsagso at yahoo dot com) to find out more about how you can meet some NSA VIPs!

June Meeting Agenda

The NC Triad chapter of the National Stuttering Association will meet next Tuesday June 8th from 7-9pm in the Benbow Room on the ground floor of Elliott University Center on the campus of UNCG. We will be discussing a study from the NSA about the benefits of support group participation for stutterers, the latest genetics research findings (there is a great link to a video about it below), and a roundtable discussion on techniques taught in speech therapy. Hope you can join us!

March Meeting Agenda

The NC Triad chapter of the National Stuttering Association will meet next Tuesday March 9th from 7-9pm in the Benbow Room on the ground floor of the Elliot Center at UNCG. We'll be discussing the upcoming national conference in Cleveland, Ohio, the NIH announcement about their genetics study, and neurosemantics as applied to stuttering. For the last item, you can go to http://www.neurosemantics.com/Stuttering/ to read more.

Also, we will be meeting socially from 2-4pm on Sunday March 28th at Panera off of Wendover in Greensboro. We hope to see you at one or both!

CNN clip with update from NIH about genes and stuttering

Here is a clip from CNN presenting new findings from the National Institutes of Health's research about the role genetics plays in stuttering. Here is a link to an article that is posted with the clip. http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/10/stuttering.genes.cell/

December Meeting Recap

The NC Triad chapter of the National Stuttering Association met Tuesday December 8th from 7-9pm in the Benbow Room in the Elliott Center on the campus of UNCG. There were 5 people in attendance (4 people who stutter and 1 chapter leader/SLP). The meeting started with a round robin reading of the welcome words. Then, each person shared their favorite holiday memory or holiday tradition. The chapter leader relayed a discussion that had been held on the chapter leader's list-serve about if the concept of being called a support group or self-help group deterred people from attending for the first time. The consensus of the group was that self-help denotes the idea of practicing our speech and support group denotes discussing how stuttering is affecting our lives. Many in the group liked the idea of devoting some of our meeting's time to practicing speaking.

This started a great discussion about the purpose and future plans of our own chapter. One point that was brought up is that our chapter's website and entry on the NSA's local chapter list makes it seem at first that the chapter is only for students of UNCG because we meet on the campus. Another attendee reported that they felt more comfortable and prepared about what to expect from reading the meeting recaps on our website (nsagso.blogspot.com). The discussion naturally turned to what lies ahead for the chapter next year. At the next meeting, flyers will be handed out for people to post around town. We'll try to host a social event at a restaurant or coffee place on a non-meeting day to hopefully meet new people. We'll also start putting the meetings back up on local community calendars. The rest of the meeting was about having some fun, so we played the party game Apples to Apples. The closing words were read to end the meeting. Our next meeting will be Tuesday January 12th from 7-9pm in the Benbow Room on the ground/bottom floor of the Elliott Center on the campus of UNCG. I hope that everyone has a happy and safe holiday and enjoys our winter weather!

10/13 Meeting Agenda

The NC Triad chapter of the National Stuttering Association will meet next Tuesday 10/13 from 7-9pm in the Benbow room on the ground floor of Elliott University Center on the campus of UNCG. We will be discussing the online International Stuttering Awareness Day conference. If you'd like to look at the site ahead of time, it can be found at http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad12/isadcon12.html. The theme this year is "Stuttering: More than a Tangled Tongue." Please let me know if you have any questions about the meeting or the chapter. Hope to see you there!