Outlines a self-therapy program which describes what the person who stutters can and should do to tackle the problem and control stuttering. Often used as a supplement to clinical treatment.
Stuttering affects over 66 milion people world wide… there is one place that is known for overwhelming results…. Hollins Communications Research Institute.
If you feel like laughing at her, imagine first how you would cope with this speech impediment that influences your daily life. I must admit her speech may sound quite unlikely to you if you have never heard a severe stutterer talking. The stuttering has nothing to do with her intelligence or the way she thinks. It’s a neurological condition that makes people stutter. Although I am a moderate stutterer who has times when he speaks absolutely fluent I have still problems dealing with my impediment. I think the most disturbing thing stutterers have to face with are all the people who think of you as a mentally retarded person and turn away from you because of that. Many people do this because they don’t know how to react when their conversational partner starts stuttering. My advice is that you should tell them that you don’t mind their stuttering. Usually this releases their tension and their speech becomes more fluent. I saw some videos on Youtube that make fun of stuttering and I read very malicious comments by people who treat stuttering as a joke. I wonder if those would laugh at people sitting in wheel chairs too. Stuttering is very similar to that because a paraplegic person wants to walk, but is not able to do that and a stutterer wants to talk fluently, but he cannot. So, it’s a pretty frustrating issue and most stutterers have to deal with it for their whole lives. The most difficult challenges stutterers have to take up: 1. Introducing themselves 2. Giving oral …
This film follows the extraordinary story of stuttering children struggling to break out of their isolation and learn to speak. Stuttering, also known as stammering in the United Kingdom, is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases; and involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the stutterer is unable to produce sounds. The term stuttering is most commonly associated with involuntary sound repetition, but it also encompasses the abnormal hesitation or pausing before speech, referred to by stutterers as blocks, and the prolongation of certain sounds, usually vowels. Much of what constitutes “stuttering” cannot be observed by the listener; this includes such things as sound and word fears, situational fears, anxiety, tension, self-pity, stress, shame, and a feeling of “loss of control” during speech. The emotional state of the individual who stutters in response to the stuttering often constitutes the most difficult aspect of the disorder. No single, exclusive cause of stuttering is known.
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