Sister Charleen Bloom, CSJ, in 1974
One night a year, individuals who stutter stand before a group of people to explain how Sister Charleen Bloom and her students gave them the courage and the skills to address them. The occasion is the intensive weekend workshop, Saint Rose Council for Effective Communication and Weekend Workshop for People Who Stutter, she started at Saint Rose in the mid-1970s.
âWhen the (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association) site visitors were here … they would say, âI have never seen this before. That is groundbreaking,â and it was something that Char did 20 years ago,âsaid Dr. Dave DeBonis, a professor of communication sciences and disorders at Saint Rose and one of Bloomâs former students. âWe would laugh.â