5. Looking back, looking forward with Sam Simpson

Show Notes

Hosts Patrick Campbell and Maria Stewart are joined by Conor Foran and Sam Simpson to discuss Sam’s article Looking Back, Looking Forward from the book Stammering Pride and Prejudice: Difference not Defect. Sam’s article speaks to the frustration but also the hope of change in how stuttering is considered within the speech therapy profession. Together, they discuss topics like the power of the social model of disability, how people who stammer can make choices when it comes to different therapies, and how narratives around advancements in neuroscience may be damaging to stuttering and other disability movements.

Links

• Stammering Pride and Prejudice edited by Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino, Sam Simpson (2019)
• “Stammering activism and speech-language therapy: An inside view” by Sam Simpson (2016)
• “A social model of stammering” by Sam Simpson and Carolyn Cheasman (2000)
• Did I Stutter?
• Mustn’t Grumble: Writing by Disabled Women by Lois Keith (1994)
• Stuttering Commons
• The disabling nature of hope in discovering a biological explanation of stuttering by Prabhat, Ellen Rombouts and Pascal Borry (2022)
• The Stammering Collective
• “Stuttering and the social model” by Christopher Constantino, Patrick Campbell, and Sam Simpson (2022)
• Action for Stammering Children
• Beyond Aphasia: Therapies For Living With Communication Disability, by Carole Pound, Susie Parr, Jayne Lindsay, Celia Woolf (2000)

Sam Simpson is a Southwest London-based speech and language therapist, person-centered counsellor, supervisor, trainer, and stammering ally. 

Conor Foran is a London-based Irish artist and designer who stutters.