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Connect with the Valley of the Sun Spasmodic Dysphonia Support Group for a multi-state Zoom meeting on Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 9:00 AM PST/AZ.

We are having a special presentation by Sara Davis, SLP from Banner Health. Sara will be discussing and demonstrating speech techniques from prepared handouts.

Please join us!

About Our Group | The Valley of the Sun Spasmodic Dysphonia Support Group provides a comfortable place to talk. You will hear how people cope, gain new information, and establish contacts. Discussions can be informative for the newly diagnosed as well as those who have been dealing with spasmodic dysphonia or other related voice conditions for many years.

Please make sure you note the time for your time zone since this is a multi-state meeting with three different time zones.

JOINING IS EASY! Register HERE
You’ll receive a confirmation email containing a link to join the meeting at its scheduled time.

WHEN
Saturday, October 2, 2021

TIME
9:00 am AZ/PT | 10:00 am MT | 11:00 am CT
Sign-in a few minutes prior to the meeting to make sure video and audio is working properly.

HOSTS
Valley of the Sun Four State Support Group Leaders
Esther Zack | estherzack9@gmail.com
Vicki Orazem | vorazem@gmail.com

Please join us on Zoom for a combined meeting of our three Northern California SD Support Groups on Saturday, Oct. 2, at 4:00 pm.  The meeting should last about an hour. 

With all the ups and downs of the Covid crisis, I had to cancel our backyard picnic this summer.  This online meeting will just be a quick catch-up, including our support for the recently-announced NSDA Walk-for-Talk.  We will also be talking about a new book by former NSDA President and current board member, Dot Sowerby, Speechless No More, which I think you will find inspirational and can be bought from the NSDA website for $15.  We hope lots of you will read it because we want to have a follow-up meeting online in December and invite Dot to come to talk about the book.  (I’m attaching a letter Dot put together for purchasers of the book to give you a feel for it.)

Even if you can’t make it on Oct. 2, please consider making a contribution to the Walk-for-Talk (donations are matched by an anonymous donor and this is our big event to support SD research) and also buying Dot’s book (which I’m very familiar with because I helped edit it and which makes a great gift for friends or family who don’t really “get” what we go through with SD).

To contribute to Walk-for-Talk:  Go to https://www.givesignup.org/WalkforTalk and click on “Donate,” then on “Top Fundraising Teams.”  Look for the team called “Northern California Goes for the Gold” (that’s us) and click the “View” button below that name to donate.

To buy Speechless No More:  Go to https://nsda.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/nsda/giftstore.jsp (the NSDA store).  You can order the book there.

Hope everybody is well and hope to see many of you on Oct. 2 on Zoom.  I’ll resend this link before the meeting, but we will be at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7433128666?pwd=eitXNVRxQjFPbThvOHhWKzF4WlBkdz09

Marcia Sterling

Marcia Kemp Sterling
(650) 494-1498
mks@sonic.net
www.MarciaKempSterling.com

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Please join the next virtual meeting hosted by the NSDA North Carolina Spasmodic Dysphonia Support Groups on Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 10am Eastern Time.

Area Contact Leader from NC, Bonnie Simpson, will serve as Guest Speaker. She will talk about how she has fully embraced her vocal image in the past 5-6 years of her 20+ year journey with SD. Bonnie wrote a compelling essay, Point of Voice Return, which was published in our “Celebrating Our Voice” collection. She also did a video for the NSDA for World Voice Day 2021 which is on our website (dysphonia.org).

Please join us!

About Our Group | The North Carolina Spasmodic Dysphonia Support Groups provides a comfortable place to talk. You will hear how people cope, gain new information, and establish contacts. Discussions can be informative for the newly diagnosed as well as those who have been dealing with spasmodic dysphonia or other related voice conditions for many years.

WHEN
Saturday, October 16, 2021

TIME
10:00 AM ET

Joining is easy! Register HERE
Please join a few minutes prior to the meeting to make sure video and audio are working.

This virtual session will be hosted utilizing Zoom, an online meeting platform. You can participate via video or audio. This meeting is password protected to ensure your privacy.

We hope to “see” you there!

HOSTS
Spasmodic Dysphonia Support Group of Charlotte, NC
Mary Bifaro | pbifaro@carolina.rr.com

Greensboro NC Spasmodic Dysphonia Support Group
Rev. Dr. Rebecca Cole-Turner | rebeccact@gmail.com