Stuttering

Stuttering exists across linguistic and cultural groups in both monolingual and bilingual speakers. In the United States, diversity is the new majority made up of a kaleidoscope of racial and ethnic minorities. Inherent in these cultural groups are personal attitudes toward disability, communicative disorders, and stuttering. Culture and language are closely intertwined as they represent ways in how individuals perceive, understand, and interact with the world. With this rise in ethnically…

thought I had a basic understanding of what stuttering was, the feelings that pertained to stuttering, and the treatment techniques that Speech-Language Pathologists used in therapy. The following speakers, I chose to listen to, were panelists at ASHA Conventions through the years 1996-2011: Kristin Chemela, Barry Guitar, Lawerence Molt, William Murphy, Lois Nelson, and David Shapiro. Listening to these panelists greatly changed my outlook on stuttering, specifically in the areas of recovery,…

speaking child with stuttering. The researchers are striving to understand the specific types and frequencies of disfluencies in bilingual children so they can then uncover the variations of stuttering across different languages. There is currently very little research concerning the display of stuttering in SE bilinguals, suggesting that this study is necessary. The authors of this study believe that important information has been omitted from previous studies about stuttering and bilingualism.…

did I develop it over time? Many studies agree that stuttering usually starts in early childhood. Children are more likely to recover from stuttering than teenagers/adults. As children reach adolescence the likelihood of such a recovery decreases (Yairi and Ambrose, 1999; Howell et al., 2008). According to Christina Kell (2009), stuttering is a disorder caused by anomalies in the left inferior frontal area of the brain. She believed that stuttering can appear in early childhood and disappear in…

one’s own achievements.” Pride is something that took Anita Bloom thirty years to accomplish as she stutters. Today she is an international speaker, vice chair of the European League of Stuttering Associations, a member of the advisory board for the International Stuttering Association, and she has her own stuttering consultant company. It took her over thirty years to be proud of her stutter. Over the course of thirty years, she struggled to find a job, social life, partner, her self-esteem…

someone with this disability cannot be treated. Bobby received indirect treatment from social interaction with others as well as using different methods to study. His stuttering also incurable but treatable also improved throughout the movie as he became more comfortable with his surroundings. That is not to say that his stuttering will not ever go back as there are situations that can trigger it. This movie created an overdramatized outlet for the mistreatment of people with disabilities but…

“Work with the entire iceberg.” The iceberg expression describes children’s suppression of their thoughts and feelings. We are not going to be changing fluency until we address their feelings and thoughts first. When most people discuss stuttering they are only referring to the motor movements involved in speech. When in reality, this is only the “tip of the icecberg.” Other components such as fear, shame, guilt, anxiety, hopelessness, isolation, and denial need to be address during therapy.…

People Stutter Barbara Underwood Comm 103 General Purpose: To Inform Topic: Why Do People Stutter Specific Purpose Statement: At the end of my speech, people will understand a few reasons why people stutter, the different types of stuttering, and therapies to help people deal with having a stutter. INTRODUCTION Attention Getter: You may not believe me, but what if I told you that I belong to the 2 percent. That’s 3 million people in the United States. (Bloodstein & Bernstein…

random, the assignment of the groups was not. Mary Tudor, the student who conducted the study for her master thesis, split the two large groups into their smaller divisions herself (Ambrose & Yairi, 2002). For more accurate results, the stuttering and non-stuttering groups should also have been divided in half through random selection. Secondly, all the students in the study were orphans. This extraneous variable could have had an effect on their confidence, which meant that the negative…

My nephew growing up, struggled with stuttering, having a slight lisp, and the challenge of talking too fast for others to understand. There were times that he refrained from speaking or reading out loud, usually in classroom situations, due to his speech impediments. While at school he saw a speech-language pathologist who helped him with his speech difficulties and I cannot express how influential that was. She corrected his stuttering problem as well as his minor lisp. Ever since, I became…