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title: "Review: Lainey Feingold: Accessibility Convincing - WebAIM"
date: 2023-01-03 19:30:00
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title: Out with it: How stuttering helped me find my voice
title: "Out with it: How stuttering helped me find my voice"
date: 2024-01-28 19:00:00
tags: stammer book review
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og-desc: A review of the book.
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og-image-alt: Out with it: How stuttering helped me find my voice, by Katherine Preston.

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[![Out with it book, published by Simon & Schuster][cover-image]][pub]
I’ve just finished reading [Out with it: How stuttering helped me find my voice][pub], by [Katherine Preston][kp]. I found it moving and a great read!

I’ve just finished reading [Out with it: How stuttering helped me find my voice][pub], by [Katherine Preston][kp]. And, I loved it!
[![Out with it book, published by Simon & Schuster][cover-image]][pub]

It’s not a new book, but it has aged well, and feels relevant to me today.

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She meets lots of famous and everyday people along the way, and quotes liberally from her interviews.

In the author's journey I see echoes of my own. My formative experience was group speech therapy at the age of 20, at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. The speech therapy was based on the work of [Van Riper][], [Sheehan][] and others. It used a 4-step process:
In the authors journey I see echoes of my own. My formative experience was group speech therapy at the age of 20, at the [old Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham][qe]. The speech therapy was based on the work of [Van Riper][], [Sheehan][] and others. It used a 4-step process:

1. Identification,
2. Open and voluntary stuttering,
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Therapy was tough and lasted an intense 5 months, but with the support of the other young people in the group, ultimately successful in allowing me to accept and reduce my avoidance of stammering.

I heartily recomend Katherine’s book!
I heartily recommend [Katherine’s book][pub]!

[pub]: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Out-With-It/Katherine-Preston/9781451676594
"Out with it book, published by Simon & Schuster"
[kp]: http://katherinepreston.com/
[wp]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Preston
[arch]: https://archive.org/details/outwithithowstut0000pres
"Out with it : how stuttering helped me find my voice, on Archive.org"
"Out with it: how stuttering helped me find my voice, on Archive.org"
[gr]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15803013-out-with-it
"Out with it, book reviews on Goodreads"
[amazon]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Stuttering-Helped-Find-Voice/dp/1451676581
[cover-image]: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91UjuBTh2ML._SY522_.jpg
[van riper]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Van_Riper
[sheehan]: https://www.stutteringhelp.org/message-stutterer
"Message to a Stutterer, by Joseph Sheehan"
[arts]: https://www.sisskinstutteringcenter.com/articles/arts-therapy-overview
"Avoidance Reduction Therapy for Stuttering (ARTS®): An Overview"

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[qe]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Hospital_Birmingham_(1933%E2%80%932010)
"Original Queen Elizabeth Hospital, on Wikipedia"

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