In its recent round of funding cuts Dr. Jack Kitts CEO of the Ottawa Hospital announced that the Stuttering Treatment Clinic will close at the end of October 2015. Reasons given by the Hospital for closing the clinic are that stuttering is not an illness requiring medical expertise and that the Hospital’s mandate is to […]
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2015 Ottawa Race Weekend: Remembering Norm McEwen and Marie Poulos
The Ottawa Race Weekend is one of Canada’s premier race events and takes place every year near the end of May. The above photo shows Norm McEwen with some of the 2012 team members from the Stuttering Treatment Clinic. Standing tall as always among others, Norm was a long time advocate for people who […]
The First Time I Met Norm
As many of you know, Norm McEwen died unexpectedly last fall. This year the “Talking About Stuttering” team at the Stuttering Treatment Clinic in Ottawa is fundraising in the 2015 Ottawa Race Weekend in memory of Norm. I will always remember the first time I met Norm. Not an auspicious encounter for what later became […]
SUPPORT PEOPLE WHO STUTTER BY SPONSORING OUR TEAM IN THE 2013 OTTAWA RACE WEEKEND
Members of OAPWS are participating in the 2013 Ottawa Race Weekend to raise money to enable teens and adults who stutter attend semi-intensive and intensive speech therapy programs at the Stuttering Treatment Clinic Centre.
Ottawa Library Presentation: Talking About Stuttering
Ottawa Public Library will hold a presentation on Talking About Stuttering at their Nepean Centrepointe Branch on April 27, 2013
MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WHO STUTTER: SPONSOR OUR TEAM IN THE 2012 OTTAWA RACE WEEKEND
Members of the Ottawa Association of People Who Stutter are taking part in the 2012 Ottawa Race Weekend