[Image-1] PAXnorth church has nine steps leading up to its front doors, and no ramp. That’s why some community members were upset when the venue, at 5568 Cunard Street, was chosen for the Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia’s annual memorial. “It came as a total surprise,” says Claudia Jahn, program facilitator at AHANS. She […]
Leah Collins Lipsett
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Getting the word out
Casey Kennedy began stuttering when he was seven. He knew right away what was happening—but no one else did. “I would cry myself to sleep,” he says. ”I remember saying to my mom, ‘I can’t talk. Why can’t I talk?’” Even as a child, Kennedy would instinctively use techniques like avoidance—not saying words he knew […]