Jack Nicholas

Fascinating City Lit event tomorrow discussing disfluency, intersectionality, and dysfluent art. citylit.ac.uk/courses/stamme… International range of speakers including @jackrnicholas from CNS.

@ClaireBullShef Have stammered in my head when reading / preparing presentation. Don’t think has happened with normal reading without expectation of speaking.

Stammering when reading to yourself…is this a thing people experience often? I’ve had a couple of clients tell me they stammer in their head when reading. Any thoughts Twitter friends?

@PuntonRobert @YouTube Hoped you would like it. Great singer. Great song.

Peggy Seeger - The Invisible Woman youtu.be/_q5IUAWP3jQ via @YouTube @jackrnicholas Found her; love it

@PuntonRobert @clentonF @EllenClifford1 @paulapeters2 @PoetryRjp Start now and we might just be ready for 2023!

@jackrnicholas @clentonF @EllenClifford1 @paulapeters2 @PoetryRjp We should organise something next year to mark celebrate day

@EllenClifford1 @clentonF @jackrnicholas @paulapeters2 @PoetryRjp Is it me or has the Disabled Day of Disabled People (3rd December) disappeared from the callendar?!

@clentonF @PuntonRobert I am intrigued by Post as a possible twitter alternative. Be interested to see what you think. I am currently 36203 on wait list, but if you use this link to try it out, I might get on faster! post.news/?r=Z8N4E

@PuntonRobert @clentonF @CNS_save Extra-special mince pies, I hope!

@jackrnicholas @clentonF @CNS_save Just accepted an invite from the Lord Lieutenant of West Midlands to a special Carol Service for services to our community

@TonyMillett @stutterverse I have 2 copies! one on Kindle so I can highlight savagely while not destroying paper version. No spoilers but half way through and enjoying every page...

Do please check out my new book. @jackrnicholas too! Avble Amazon & browndogbooks.uk

@stutterverse Wow! Well, that’s spurred me on to try and do some more! Thank you.

@jackrnicholas I do love your writing Jack especially this one. Thank You 🙏jacknicholas.substack.com/p/a-quaker-wed…

#notsofluentfriday When using language to describe the experience of stuttering, one must be mindful, are you really being descriptive of the experience or are you adding to the stigma that many who stutter experience #stutteringawareness #stammeringawareness

@stammastriders — Reading this post by @craigmod about walking and talking with others as you walk. So naturally, thought of you... "You feel changed by the walk and changed by the people you walk beside. The world yawns in new ways." craigmod.com/roden/073/

@redefinestammer This series of guided discussions is just so good. Lovely people and great conversations. Recommend for anyone interested in new thinking / writing / talking about stammering.

Do you stammer & are you interested in discussing new perspectives on stammering & therapy together with your peers & speech & language therapists? Check out: redefiningstammering.co.uk/services/discu… for an opportunity to stretch others thinking & be stretched in a supportive learning environment

@AliAbdaal Proof reading

What’s something you’re good at that you find really satisfying / rewarding, even though your friends / family have no idea how something so boring-looking could actually be satisfying? (looking for a nice example to quote in my book hehe)

@Patrick1992C Community

👋 a few of us are working on a stammering pride related project. We'd like to create a word cloud related to stammering pride. Would be grateful if people could comment below single words they associate with stammering pride to make it. 1 each please. Repetitions welcome 🙏

1 in 5 of us will experience suicidal thoughts in our lifetime. Make yourself suicide-aware this #WorldSuicidePreventionDay and learn how to ask directly about suicide if you're worried about someone. Find free resources and training on our website: stopsuicidepledge.org

@TupsTweets This is a triple challenge: 1. Assumptions around “good” presentations are deep rooted. 2. Even well-intentioned people often need help cutting through myths and misconceptions around stammering. And then, 3. The whole “time is money” mindset — where do you start with that?!

@TupsTweets How do we challenge the format? Can we propose absurd counter "reasonable adjustments": - 90 seconds as Dylan & cards youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIB… - presenting in BSL with organisers providing an interpreter? - a PWS pausing stopwatch during overt disfluency?

In a great blog ow.ly/hsAb50KAofs for @stammer, @kirsten_howells talks about feeling an imposter when asking for help and saying "I stammer". I wonder if this is a common feeling, and that part of being a community is countering any hierarchy of stammering.

@Hope_G_H Hi Hope, I think you have to follow me before I can private message you (what a great way of getting more followers!)

@Hope_G_H @ClaireBullShef Many thanks, Hope, I will DM you. I enjoyed your and Kristel's workshop at StammaFest, not least the opening remark that school is the one place you have to return to — that so resonated with me! Thanks to Claire for reminding me about the club and you for contact.

@kirsten_howells @StephFBurgess @ClaireBullShef Thank you for this moving and thoughtful post. You've moved fast - I am still processing StammaFest! I do like the idea that professional documentation and analysis can empower a PWS and validate their experience. For me, a different and useful take on community building.

@StephFBurgess @ClaireBullShef Here's my tuppen'orth on the topic: stamma.org/news-features/…

Back at work today and trying hard to to avoid shouting out to clients “you need to find a tribe! You need to go to #STAMMAFestGlobal2022 !” We’ll get there I’m sure…