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Stuttering As ArtCreativity and Advocacy with Stutterology Creator Ezra HorakThis week, Madeline talks with Ezra Horak, a stutterer and the founder of Stutterology, an empowering digital content platform that educates about stuttering lived experience through a neurodiverse and trauma-informed lens. Ezra talks about their journey with stuttering, what stuttering feels like, how they express creativity with Stutterology--and more!
Ezra Horak is a stutterer and the founder of Stutterology, an empowering digital content platform that educates about stuttering lived experience through a neurodiverse and trauma-informed lens. They are also Board Co-Chair for SPACE, a non-profit organization, and have volunteered with various stuttering organizations for over 10 years. Ezra has t...
2025-07-0557 min
StutterologyKarli Marx, Stuttering Drag PerformerEzra sits down with Karli Marx (aka E) for a candid conversation about their journey growing up with a stutter and discovering their queerness, and navigating both experiences feeling unseen even eventually within LGBTQ or stuttering communities. They dive into the formation of Karli, Balitmore's stuttering drag performer, hosting their own shows, and how these experiences bleed into building confidence in the rest of their life. Really beautiful story.Guest BioKarli Marx (they/them) is Baltimore’s kooky drag thing who stutters. As the reigning Mx. Mixers 2024, Karli has made a ma...
2025-04-211h 18
StutterologyNeurodiversity Affirming Stuttering Therapy with Matt Maxion, CCC-SLPWhat are the challenges and importance of implementing neurodiversity affirming therapy in school-based settings? Join host Ezra and guest Matt Maxion, a speech therapist who stutters, as they discuss the shift from fluency-focused goals to empowering individuals who stutter to communicate confidently. The two address misconceptions, share personal experiences, and advocate for a more inclusive therapy approach… and Matt shares his answer to “What place do the infamous fluency shaping and stuttering modification ‘techniques’ have in affirming speech therapy”
Guest Bio
Matt Maxion is a CCC-SLP and stutterer who aims to shift our perspec...
2024-05-291h 06
All the Right Words: A Podcast for the Stuttering CommunityEzra HorakIn this episode, I speak with stuttering advocate Ezra Horak who shares their stuttering journey as well as their unique new brand, Stutterology.
2024-03-2253 min
StutterologyAdvocacy Burnout & Rediscovering His Voice with James HaydenWhat happens when you go from never talking about your stutter to being one of the leading voices educating people on acceptance in the span of just a few short years? Is it possible to lose a part of your voice in the process of finding your voice?
Ezra sits down with James Hayden, author of Dear World, I Stutter, and huge Survivor fan. After meeting other people who stutter for the first time in October 2015, he had published his book in December 2017. The book was more popular than James predicted, and before long, "James: The Brand"...
2024-03-071h 45
StutterologyWho Defines Stuttering? How? Why?The definition of stuttering has changed constantly over the years - and the connotations of the definition feel different between people who stutter and those who don't. So what does it actually mean to stutter? Is graduate school always giving up and coming speech therapists an accurate depiction?
Host Ezra Horak, stutterer, and guest Nicole Kulmaczewski, CCC-SLP, push back against traditional medical definitions (like the one found on mayoclinic), and then end up pushing back against one another (but it's OK, they forgive each other). Aiming to approach the implications various definitions may have, the two advocate...
2024-02-201h 35
StutterConversation: The PodcastEpisode 16: Don't overcome a stutter - unmasking a voice in a world of stigma and moving away from fluency: Part TwoHi Everyone,Finally getting to post part 2 of this episode (sorry for the wait, been trying to juggle uni and podcasting and it's gotten a little hectic!).In this episode, Ezra and I talk all about the impact fluency goals has on a child, why we should move away from fluency, Ezra's journey to stutterology and how they created the page and finished it all off with a great game of 2 truths and a lie.Questions asked in this episode:Why do...
2024-02-201h 00
StutterologyCaptain of Her Soul: Silent Film Actress Marion Davies Moved to Sound with her StutterEzra interviews Lara Gabrielle about Marion Davies, an actress who was one of the few to make the transition from silent films to "talkies"... oh, and she stuttered.
Marion Davies (1897-1961), an American actress, screenwriter, producer, and philanthropist was a wonder that many people were captured by. This is impressive by any feat, but even moreso as a woman born in the 1890s. So why don't we know more about her? And what impact did stuttering have on Davies's life?
Lara Gabrielle knew that the life of Marion Davies was a story someone needed to...
2024-01-211h 15
StutterConversation: The PodcastEpisode 16: Don't overcome a stutter - unmasking a voice in a world of stigma and moving away from fluency: Part OneHi everyone! Welcome to 2024! I hope everyone's had a great New Years. Today I am joined by Ezra Horak, the creator of Stutterology. Ezra Horak is the founder of Stutterology, a digital content platform that educates about stuttering through a neurodiverse and trauma-informed lens and empowers people with speech differences by addressing the systemic issues. They are co-chair of the board for SPACE, a new nonprofit for online arts programming for young people who stutter. Additionally, they have volunteered with various stuttering organizations, most frequently the National Stuttering Association, si...
2024-01-1442 min
StutterologyTrump Mocks Biden's Stutter (Yes, in 2024)The journalist response to former President Donald Trump mocking the disability of President Joe Biden is disheartening. This isn't just an exhaustion of Trump - this is a reflection of a society that doesn't think mocking a stutter is "that bad".
The only outcry has come from people who stutter. The only news articles out as of this moment are about Biden "didn't stutter" on the word Trump mocked him for - as if that's the point?! Listen to stuttering voices and do better when you cover the way a former president mocks my disability.
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2024-01-0710 min
StutterologyPart 2: Monster Study - The Stutterer's PerspectiveSecond part of a 2-part episode, Ezra is joined again by guests Nicole (CCC-SLP) and Jenny (PWS) to wrap up their discussion of Wendell Johnson and Mary Tudor's "Monster Study" of 1939, and how it relates to 2023 speech therapy practices.
Is today's speech therapy for stuttering doing what this "monstrous" study did... with a pretty bow on it? The three discuss comments from Mary Tudor in 1939, and then examples from a 2019 'fluency bank' - 80 years later.
Guests:
Nicole Kulmaczewski - CCC-SLP and Deputy Director of MySpeechApp
Jenny McGuire - person who stutters and Executive Director of MySpeechApp
FOOTNOTES:
1. Tudor, M. (1939). An e...
2023-11-201h 15
StutterologyPart 1: Monster Study - The Stutterer's PerspectiveIn this two-part special of "Stutterology," we take a deep dive into the infamous unpublished 1939 experiment at Univesity of Iowa by Wendell Johnson and his graduate student, Mary Tudor, which has been dubbed the "Monster Study."
Join our host Ezra, a person who stutters, and two key guests, including a Speech Language Pathologist as we unravel never-before-discussed insights into the backstory of Wendell Johnson, how it influenced this study, and how it relates to modern-day speech therapy for stutterers.
There is a lot to unpack and explore in this episode, including:
Wendell Johnson being...
2023-10-311h 19
StutterologyWidening the Stuttering Therapy Lens with Nina Reeves, CCC-SLP, BCS-FDGuest Nina Reeves shares her insights and experiences working with children who stutter and offers valuable advice for parents seeking to support their child's communication journey. Her and our host discuss the importance of creating a safe and accepting environment, understanding the child's perspective, and the need to address thoughts and feelings about stuttering. Together, they explore the concept of "easier communication" and emphasize the value of open discussions surrounding stuttering.
About Guest
Nina Reeves, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-FD, F-ASHA, is the co-founder and Vice President of "Stuttering Therapy Resources". She is the author of several books such as Early...
2023-09-1547 min
StutterologyShaping Speech Therapy with Steff Lebsack, CCC-SLPSteff Lebsack (she/her), CCC-SLP based in Colorado and licensed in several states, dives into the challenges that can pop up in traditional speech therapy, especially in school settings. The conversation is diverse - Ezra and Steff discuss challenging traditional speech therapy approaches, the use of speaking strategies when working with kids who stutter, the need for mentorship and support for speech-language pathologists, the wonders of the stuttering community, and Steff’s use of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in the speech therapy setting. Steff also shares lovely stories of working with children who stutter, high...
2023-08-301h 22
StutterologyStuttering IcebergThe full picture of stuttering: what is the "stuttering iceberg" and what makes a person who stutters... someone who stutters? We go beyond the obvious here and talk about Joseph Sheehan's take, Courtney Margulis’s example of how this plays out with SLPs, my own depressing blog post from 2009, Joe Biden's viral tiktok audio, and Nina G's reframing of the iceberg.
FOOTNOTES:
1. Advice to Those Who Stutter, chapter 6 written by Joseph Sheehan: https://www.stutteringhelp.org/message-stutterer
2. Courtney Margulis (formerly Luckman)'s blog post, "Treating 5% of the Disorder": http://courtingcourage.blogspot.com/2016/08/treating-5-o...
2022-08-1534 min
StutterologyWhat Does It Mean To Stutter? [2022]The only thing you can actually know about people who stutter is that we stutter. The personality types and interests of PWS very as much as any other group of people. And while we may know that mentally, media representation only shows stuttering as a nervous habit. Many have been told to “play to their strengths” with the assumption being that public speaking, stage presence, and effective communication are not strengths nor interests.
Many of us, like me, love to talk; the idea that I could not pursue a particular career path because of my speech was more...
2022-08-0548 min
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2022-07-2900 min
StutterologyWhat is Stutterology? [2022 Version]So your child is stuttering - now what? Maybe you've been having people tell you about ways to make stuttering disappear, or you're just so overwhelmed by information overload that you don't know where to begin. Maybe you have read every book or article you can get your hands on, but you're still looking for something... else. What if the goal of speech therapy wasn't about making a stutter go away? What will success look like for your child/you/your loved one? Will they be OK, even if their stuttering never disappears? Let's start here - I...
2022-07-2130 min