National Stuttering Awareness Week Press Conference in SF Today

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The Bay Area stuttering community is thrilled to celebrate the SF Board of Supervisors formally recognizing the second week of May as National Stuttering Awareness Week! The celebration kicks off TODAY (Tuesday, May 3rd) at 10am with a press conference to note the signing of the annual awareness week. The press conference will take place in front of San Francisco City Hall!

We are thrilled to partner with the podcast Proud Stutter to honor the week of stuttering awareness and are excited to share the community happenings to increases awareness of stuttering in the SF community! And if you haven’t yet checked out the Proud Stutter podcast, make sure to give it a listen here.

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Jody Vaynshtok

Jody is a California-licensed speech language pathologist with eight years of industry and clinical experience. She has worked with both adult and pediatric populations during her time at private practice, birth-to-three, and hospital facilities. She is experienced in the assessment and treatment of a variety of communication and cognitive disorders. In addition, Jody has a passion for working with adults looking to achieve clearer communication. Jody received her BS in Speech and Hearing Sciences and MS in Medical Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Washington. She was a part of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford’s cleft and craniofacial clinic participating in the multidisciplinary assessment and treatment of children born with craniofacial abnormalities. She holds a staff position at UCSF and is the lead speech language pathologist for the department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery’s Hearing Loss Clinic. When she's not busy having fun with her clients Jody enjoys spending time with her husband, Anton, friends and family. And if she's not headed out somewhere fun for dinner, you might find her at Bar Method working out!