LET’S STUTTER is a Campaign by which fellow
stutterer will boost their confidence so they can
stutter freely without any hesitation. The campaign
aims to provide practices and make stutterer feel
normal and confident while stuttering, this will
help reducing stuttering hence reduction in
anxiety and depression.
2. IT’S OKAY TO
STUTTER
LET’S STUTTER is a Campaign by which fellow
stutterer will boost their confidence so they can
stutter freely without any hesitation. The campaign
aims to provide practices and make stutterer feel
normal and confident while stuttering, this will
help reducing stuttering hence reduction in
anxiety and depression.
3. DESIGNBRIEF
For this study, correlational research design was used in which the
researcher will assess the difficulties faced by patients having
Childhood-Onset Fluency Disorder and design awareness campaign and an
application to solve those difficulties.
Research Design
National Stuttering Association
The Client
~ Book for stuttering individuals including practices to reduce the stuttering
~ Animation that shows experience of how a stutterer struggles
~ Website for campaign including Stuttering Community
The Task
4. ~ Create awareness and acknowledgement to the society of speech disorders.
~ Provide practices to Stutterers that will help reduce/avoid Stuttering.
~ Show the ones who suffer the positive side of speech disorder and take it
positively in order to reduce it.
~ An online platform where Stutterers get motivated by stories of fellow
stutterers.
The Purpose of the Design
~ Parents of children suffering from speech disorders
~ 3-24 aged individuals suffering from speech disorders
Target market
Every Stutterer has been bullied more than once, this campaign aims to let
the stutterer feel normal and confident even when he/she stutters. This will
allow stutterers to reduce stuttering by some basic practices. A website for
stutteres that will help them intract with stutterers and listen to their stories.
Making stuttering normal to the stutterer will help in reducing and will help
in ending anxiety and depression.
Aim and Objective
5. 70Million
People
About 60% of this population ignore
the fact that one should need no
treatment as this is curse that person
is born with.
About 32% of this population use
ways that aren’t medically
recommended, in many cases the
condition becomes worse.
The remaining 18% of this population
consult speech therapist. Most of
these are adults which due to which
reduction in stuttering is minimal.
50%
32%
18%
Surveys
6. Have you been teased/bullied about
your stuttering since the summer
holidays started?
How often during the summer
holidays were you teased/bullied
about your stuttering?
How often in the last year at school
were you teased/bullied about your
stuttering?
Survey by Marilyn Langevin
Have you been teased/bullied about
your stuttering at school?
How much did the teasing/bullying
about your stuttering at school bother
or upset you?
61%
61%
77%
75%
69%
7. All these practices are choosen with
consultation of a licensed Speech
Language Pathologist with a
background in pediatric therapy
named Tiffani Kittilstved. An online
meeting was arranged to discuss
about my concerns regarding this
thesis.
Practices Stuttering
11. ANIMATION
Animation that will show the struggles a Stutterer
faces in this society and how he is bullied by our
society. How he gathers courage to face the world
and how he builds his career regardless of him
being a Stutterer. This Animation aims to tell us
Stutterers that nothing can stop you until you stop
yourself. Remaining steadfast and not giving up
will allow Stutterer to Stutter less and Stutter freely
without any fear. The Animation will allow
Stutterers to get confidence and face the bullies in
our society.
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16. Why Isometric?
Common behaviour in Stutterers:
1. Repeated Movements
2. Fixed Postures
3. Superfluous Behaviors
Three genes found in Stutterers:
1. GNPTAB
2. GNPTG
3. NAGPA
18. BOOK
Booklet consisting of 16 pages is designed which
include various practices that will help reduce or
avoid stuttering with some easily carried tasks.
These practices are self-explanatory and are used
with professional guidance. These practices won’t
require any professional personal i.e. Speech
Therapist, Speech Language Pathologist. These are
universal practices with will help most of the
Developmental Stutterers.
23. WEBSITE
Website will be made for this Campaign, explaining
what the campaign is, providing stories of various
Stutterers, the Practices for Reducing Stuttering as
shown in the book. This website will allow to ask
their quires regarding Stuttering which will be
answered by Professional Speech Therapists. All the
products made for this Thesis will be present on
this website.
