Stuttering

Fun Facts: You may think that the Grease history might be boring, but it isn’t. It’s really fascinating, even just for a person like Aristotle. Did you know that Aristotle was considered the most intelligent person who had ever walked on Earth? Well, it says it on the Internet and said by historic authors, so you have to believe it! Also, during at the age of 17, he was living in the richest and largest city of Grease! It was called Athens, he lived there almost his entire life! I guess it was…

A strange day in July As Edda and Oskar crept forward onto the fickle ocean shore, the tide tickled their feet with feathers of seaweed and sand. It was a sleepy morning in Iceland, the sky was painted in shades of violets and gold. This created a horizon that softly embraced the rocky terrain of the coastline. Oskar, as an imaginative child, who marveled at the marriage of sky and land. “ I do wonder, sometimes, if we are both part of land and sky.” “ Well, we must, for we touch both…

the easier it became to talk with other workers and with the plethora of customers I had to face everyday. The way I threw myself into conversing with all these people was my way of forcing myself to conquer my irrational fears. The thought of stuttering during a conversation used to make my palms sweat, but after months of interacting with large amounts of people, the fear in the back of my mind gradually dissipated. Even if I did end up screwing up while they order, I discovered most people…

As children, we fantasized about the five “major” careers known to be doctors, scientists, movie stars, teachers, and veterinarians. For whatever reason we aspired to obtain one of these dream jobs. For some, these careers resonated with us while for others, they are a distant memory. Growing up, many people go into a field that they are not prepared for due to the lack of available resources given to them prior to college. This is where extra-curricular activities come into play. In high school…

differences. Heather Peak Hooper plays Truvy, a hair stylist in the play. Hooper did a wonderful job in voice, body, emotions, facial expressions, and projection. Her voice was loud and clear, her words were pronounced correctly, with the exception of stuttering on a few words. She kept the upbeat and bubbly tempo of Truvy, and the audience always laughed at her witty comments. Her expressions helped with her dialogue…

beauty that surrounded me, I looked up to my left and the excitement inside of me grew when I seen something that I thought was impossible. My heart was racing, my eyes were huge, the words coming out of my mouth were not making any sense, I was stuttering over and over again. There's a truck suspended from the mountain, a tree is holding it up, it looked like it was from lifetime ago. Suddenly the sounds of the waterfall snap me back to reality and I know that I am getting closer and closer to…

Historical Moment “To escape fear, you must go through it, not around it.” The horrors of public speaking plague an introverts mind. Growing up, other kids called me shy since I never talked unless a teacher forced me to. Consequently, I do not understand how I got myself into this situation. Here I sit in an empty, colorless classroom filled with students tapping on their desks itching for the 2:25 P.M. bell to ring and dismiss them from their misery. The teacher, a small crabby old man,…

detailed medical history and information regarding AUD. Demographic information includes: name, date of birth, gender and other related questions. Speech related information involves: history of speech or language disorder, history or presence of Stuttering, family history of speech or fluency disorder, current speech and language status, history or presence of cognitive difficulty, any secondary behaviors associated with speech disorder and other relevant information if indicative. Medical…

When I was 13 years old, my parents wanted me to change my name from Osama to Rayan. They feared that my having the world’s most-wanted terrorist as my namesake would lead to me being persecuted outside of Pakistan. And so I was an adolescent crying in the bathroom, not because of puberty nor school, but because of the lose-lose situation with which I was faced: I had to change what I perceived to be the very core of my identity or face getting labeled by the world around me as a devotee of bin…

that he has owned “dogs, cats, turtles, snakes, alligators, pigeons, possums, goats” while he was in his home state of Connecticut (Stuttering Foundation). He writes about animals and their conservations often. He has many works, 60 years’ worth, of conservation of animals fueled by this relentless desire to write for animals who cannot write for themselves (Stuttering Foundation). An example of these animals that need a voice are turtles. Turtles are a less familiar species that are easily…