Ep. 2: Conversation with Katie Gore

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August 3, 2020 • 134 mins

This episode is a conversation with Katie Gore—a speech language pathologist, an entrepreneur, a communications educator, and a friend. The conversation begins with Katie's origin story as an American growing up in Canada. We then discuss various topics, including the intersection of class and stuttering (and other disabilities), as well as the challenges of discussing politics in a culture in which the words most often used in our political discourse lack shared or agreed-upon meanings.

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Katie is the founder of speech IRL, a Chicago-based company that provides speech therapy for persons who stutter, as well as a variety of other speech- and communications-related therapies, classes, and consultations.
Check out speech IRL here: www.speechIRL.com
@speechIRL (Facebook / Insta / Twitter)

Katie is also the Community Outreach Chair of Shared Voices, a Chicago-based non-profit with the mission of creating a shared community for people impacted by stuttering, through programming, resources, education, and outreach.
Check out Shared Voices here: www.sharedvoiceschicago.org
@sharedvoiceschicago

The National Stuttering Association (NSA) is the largest non-profit organization in the world dedicated to bringing hope and empowerment to children and adults who stutter, their families, and professionals, through support, education, advocacy, and research.
Check out the NSA here: www.westutter.org

Katie recently wrote a blog post "for anyone who gets overwhelmed by headlines, Instagram stories, and tweets that use all kinds of social terms you aren't familiar with. You want to ask questions, but are afraid of saying something wrong in the process."
Check out that blog post here: https://www.speechirl.com/how-to-speak-2020

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Photograph by yours truly.

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