Jack Nicholas

Thinking about perceptions of stammering and new ways of working. Part of Community Navigator Services, a community interest company that promotes co-production, challenges inequality, and explores the intersection of language and power. Partner at Nicholas Allen Partnership. Freelance writer. Volunteer at STAMMA.
Writes infrequently for stamma.org and sporadically at jacknicholas.substack.com
Using hey.world for notes incomplete and inconsequential.

August 26, 2021

Gobbet and peroration

Depressed words of the day. Gobbet and peroration. Much of the time, I feel I am writing gobbets of a peroration. My definitions: - Peroration: a rhetorical speech, probably overlong, bombastic, hectoring. - Gobbet: a small piece often from a larger mass or work, often unpleasant or indigestible as often was the larger work.The negativ...

August 25, 2021

No pylons! Don't ruin the glen.

SSEN (Scottish & Southern Electricity Network) are planning an act of lazy and wilful vandalism on a rare and outstandingly beautiful glen on the Scotland west coast. Watch the video, sign the petition here: http://dontruintheglen.co.uk/ SSEN want to put a line of massive pylons along the remote, unspoilt Glen Arroch. There is an exist...

August 21, 2021

Testing image alt text

Is there alt text if I add an image? No. It seems not. Add your own caption perhaps. Feminist indexing via Twitter. The alt text is set to the file name. So the only option, it seems, is to rename the image with an expressive name. Thanks to Pietro Bortoletto, MD on Twitter https://twitter.com/BortolettoMD/status/1140634455716978688

April 8, 2021

Pseudostuttering as a teaching aid for SLT students?

Started to think about this following this tweet from STAMMA https://twitter.com/stammer/status/1379071865633800197?s=21 St John's University New York proposed that SLT (speech and language therapy) students should practice pseudostuttering in public to get an idea of what it felt like to be a person who stammers. However, the students...

March 9, 2021

Some things you don't question

Brought up in a non-conformist family. Expected to stand up for equality, independence, speaking for self and others, and questioning status quo. Never questioned medical model of stammer or assumptions that disfluency was an acceptable barrier to activities.

March 9, 2021

Notes on reflection and reflective models

Reflective models Kolb - concrete experience - reflective observation - abstract conceptualisation - active experimentation Gibbs - description - feelings - evaluation - analysis - conclusion - action plan ERA - Experience - Reflection - Action Driscoll - What? - So what? - Now what? Schön Reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action ...

March 8, 2021

Attention

Some random notes Writing as close attention see Craig Mod and https://blog.cbs.dk/inframethodology/ Same site also mentions official style that uses attention as path to living prose Close reading is creative attention. Close and diffuse attention as Chatter book. Interleaving and linking and metaphors are forms of paired attention. T...

March 8, 2021

You write to...

You write to think. You publish to test that thinking. You do not write and publish to persuade. You write to feel. You publish to test that feeling. You do not write and publish to flatter, cajole, bully, or trap.

March 5, 2021

Uses for world.hey

Hey. Note book. Scrapbook. RSS no Twitter forwarding. Public but personal Twitter is Twitter Micro notes garden and longer form and micro posts all forwarded to Twitter and perhaps medium. Can you forward micro to hey? CNS company pages and posts.

March 4, 2021

elevator pitches and zoom introductions

Jason Fried in his piece Ditch the elevator pitch explains why he thinks we don’t need elevator pitches and should abandon their restrictions and distortions. Two of his reasons: • You can’t explain complex and new ideas in thirty seconds. • What you want to say changes with the needs of your audience. Learning these needs form part of...