Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Bios for Greg Snyder, Peter Retizes and Eric Jackson

Greg Snyder is an adult stutterer and is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Mississippi. He earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at East Carolina University. After graduation, Greg and his wife, Courtney, lived in Washington, D.C., where he was assistant professor in the Department of Hearing, Speech, and Language Sciences at Gallaudet University. Upon receiving the news of an expanding family, Greg and Courtney decided to leave the big city, and relocate to a charming southern town in which they can call home and raise a family. Greg, Courtney and Ella Snyder currently reside in Oxford, MS.

Peter Reitzes, MA, CCC-SLP, is an adult stutterer and an ASHA certified, speech-language pathologist working in an elementary school and in private practice in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Reitzes is the author of 50 Great Activities for Children Who Stutter: Lessons, Insights, and Ideas for Therapy Success (PRO-ED), is co-editor of the Journal of Stuttering Therapy, Advocacy and Research (www.JournalOfStuttering.com), is co-host of the Stutter Talk podcast, and is an adjunct professor at St. John’s University and Touro University. Mr. Reitzes may be contacted at StutterNY.com.

Eric Jackson is an adult stutterer and a graduate student in the Speech-Language Pathology program at Brooklyn College in New York. As a Graduate Fellow in that program, he teaches an undergraduate course in public speaking. Eric is 29 years old, and is also a musician in two Brooklyn-based bands.