James Hayden is a New Orleans Saints fan, a Survivor superfan, HLA technologist, writer, and a person who stutters from the New Orleans area. James is the author of Dear World, I Stutter: A Series of Open Letters from a Person Who Stutters. His work has been published by The Mighty, The Stuttering Foundation, Stamma, Yahoo, and MSN. James has also appeared on several podcasts and was a speaker at TEDxOchsner 2019. He also serves as the chapter leader for the New Orleans chapter for the National Stuttering Association.

0:00-11:20: Opening comments, career, stuttering pill and the evolving choice

11:20-20:00: The role of speech therapy and community

20:00-40:00: Becoming a writer, author and public speaker

40:00-1:04:25: TEDx Talk, how I write and future bucket list hopes

RESOURCES AND LINKS

• Dear World, I Stutter

• The Mighty Articles

• We Stutter

• The Stuttering Foundation Articles

• Stamma Articles

• Stuttered Blog by James Hayden

HOST BIO

Uri Schneider, M.A. CCC -SLP is co-founder and leader at Schneider Speech; creator of Transcending Stuttering Academy and faculty at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.