Reflect offers you a creative way to explore your relationship with stuttering. It aims to deepen your understanding of stuttering and how you story stuttering in your life. Reflect aspires to strengthen more empowering understandings of stuttering and support you to live the life you want to lead.
Through colour and shape, your unique image will uncover what stuttering can teach you about yourself and the world. It is hoped that this will open up different future possibilities and new stories. You can also track change over time.
There are two versions of Reflect: one for people 16 years and above and one for young people 15 years and below. You will be given the version that matches the age bracket you select.
For an optimal experience, Google Chrome web browser is recommended when using Reflect.
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Data collection
Reflect is a collaboration between speech and language therapists, academics, artists and designers through Stuttering Commons. Drawing on Positive Psychology and the concept of flourishing, Reflect offers a dynamic way of creating new understandings and stories of stuttering. Reflect may be used on your own to support self-reflection or together with a speech and language therapist to explore directions of travel in therapy.
To develop Reflect, you can agree to your answers being kept securely for future research by Christopher Constantino at Florida State University. This will be done anonymously, which means your answers will not be linked to your name. If you are under 18, a parent or legal guardian must give permission for your data to be used in future research.
You are free to choose whether you would like to share your responses and can change your mind at any time. To withdraw consent, you can email Sam Simpson at sam@redefiningstammering.co.uk. You can still use Reflect if you do not want to share your answers.
Contributors
Sam Simpson (she/her) is a speech and language therapist, person-centred counsellor, supervisor and trainer living outside London, England. Sam has a particular interest in critical disability studies, stammering activism and what stammering can teach us about ourselves and the world. Sam actively promotes stammering-affirming therapy practices and culture. Together with Patrick Campbell and Chris Constantino, Sam co-edited Stammering Pride and Prejudice: Difference not Defect in 2019.
Bart Rzeznik (he/him) is a London-based designer and project manager by day, and a dedicated stammering ally by night. Alongside Conor Foran, he runs Take Courage, a creative practice committed to supporting Stuttering Commons by translating and sharing stammering knowledge. When not designing, Bart lectures part-time on project management and design thinking at Kingston University’s Department of Creative and Cultural Industries.
Conor Foran (he/him) is an Irish artist and designer based in London. He runs a socially engaged design practice with his partner Bart Rzeznik called Take Courage. They combine creativity, technology and strong relationships with their collaborators to design printed matter, develop websites and manage projects for education, care and culture—including Stuttering Commons. As a proud person who stammers, Conor is interested in how disability intersects with creativity and how art and design can instigate social change. He leads a collaborative, creative practice about stammering called Dysfluent.
Christopher Constantino (he/him) lives in Tallahassee with his wife, Megan, and three sons, Augustine, Sebastian and Maximilian. He is a speech-language pathologist and assistant professor at Florida State University. He works clinically with people who stutter, supervises graduate student clinicians, teaches classes on stuttering and counseling, and researches ways to improve the experience of stuttering. He is the Professional Development Manager for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Special Interest Group for Counseling (SIG 20). He co-edited the book Stammering Pride & Prejudice with Patrick Campbell and Sam Simpson. Chris enjoys riding his bicycle.