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What Is Stuttering?
- 1. Scientist Isaac Newton President TheodoreRoosevelt Actress Emily Blunt Golfer Tiger Woods VP Joe Biden Newscaster John Stossel They All Have Something in Common
- 3. What Is Stuttering? •A speech condition • Impacts about 3 million people in the U.S.
- 4. • Instead ofsaying what they want to say, a person who stutters might… –Repeat letters or parts of words –Draw out words –Not be able to start or complete a word What Is Stuttering?
- 5. It Impacts PeopleDifferently • In some, stuttering is more pronounced than in others • Each person who stutters will have good days and bad days
- 6. What Causes Stuttering? •Still somewhat of a mystery • Genetics (family history) • Four times more common in males than in females
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- 12. “God’s gift tome was my stuttering. Time and time again, my parents taught me that being different is no barrier to success.”
- 13. “I took mystruggles with speech as a sign from God that communication would play a major part in my life.”
- 14. Can Stuttering BeOvercome? • Clearly, yes • No miracle cures • Effective therapies • Great speech therapists
- 15. What I’m Doing •Working with speech therapist Mrs. Mitchell • Working with stuttering specialist Kristin Chmela
- 16. My Most ImportantLessons • Stuttering is just something I do sometimes; it isn’t who I am • What a person has to say is more important than how they say it
- 17. What You CanDo • Give people who stutter time to finish what they’re saying • Don’t finish their sentences for them • As with everybody, treat someone who stutters how you’d like to be treated