Personal Narrative: The Adversity Of Stuttering

Hoagland begins his essay with an analogy to help the audience understand his stutter in a clear and visual way. He likens his handicap to “trying to run with loops of rope around your feet” (Hoagland

After 60 years of stuttering, Hoagland reminisces about his struggles and triumphs to overcome his stuttering. While attending school, he learned that, “Life can become a matter of measuring the importance of anything you have to say.” He felt that it was

The main purpose of this article is to examine various research on the etiology of stuttering. The experimental research explored various brain circuitries involved, specifically the the basal ganglia. Furthermore, the meta-analysis discussed neuroimaging, lesion, pharmacological, and genetic studies on the neural circuitries connected to persistent developmental stuttering and acquired neurogenic stuttering.

I entered the field with an interest in fluency and participated in the National Stuttering Association in Queens, New York. The stutter started in my teens and faded away in my early adulthood.  I researched speech language pathology and came upon all the different aspects of this field since the definition of speech pathology is broad. I knew I wanted to specialize in stuttering when I was a teenager. This changed when I was in the Communication Sciences and Disorders program in my undergrad. This program exposed me to different classes and observations of communication disorders in a variety of age ranges. This exposed me to adult population as well in which I gained an interest because of their lack of tantrums and willingness to gain back

Barry Yeoman in “Wrestling Words”, expresses the struggles of how stuttering becomes a setback in life. Stuttering may seem like an easy disability to overcome,but for those who struggle know the true devastating pain. Not being able to fit the cookie cutter perfect imagine of society not just physically,but also emotionally impacts stutters. Stuttering seems incurable,but organizations like the National Stuttering Project believe an end is reachable. Stuttering is not a life threatening disease,but a setback to thrive on.

Turning the gun in your hand, you note how it reflects in the soft glowing lamplight. Dark and blued steel with a dull satin sheen; cold, heavy, dangerous.

My name is Tandie, and I am a student at Texas State. Most people walk by me everyday not even realizing that I have an impairment, that is, until I open my mouth. Try not to take that in the wrong way, I'm actually very bright. However, if Dr. Burns told me to read this paper in front of the entire class, I would most likely drop the course. This is due to the fact that when I was a child, I was diagnosed with Speech Disfluency, or “stuttering.” Although I've taken countless years of speech therapy, I cannot make it through a conversation without stuttering. But, I don't allow that to hold me back in life. What most people don't realize is that people with speech impairments usually have great communication skills,

Daniels stated that “quality of life was negatively impacted by [the client’s] self-defeating thoughts and feelings about speaking and difficulty regulating social interaction” (p. 95). It demonstrated that speech and stuttering modifications alone are not enough to facilitate successful treatment outcomes. Broad based treatment approaches work the best in treating the whole child, not just the stutter. SLPs should learn to adopt broad based treatment approaches when implementing stuttering intervention in order to improve quality of

I now realize she was fearful of speaking aloud because she has a stutter. After realizing that her peers didn’t have a negative perception of her, she began raising her hand to participate. Although this isn’t consistent with the findings of this study, I can understand why my student was apprehensive about sharing in class discussions, as there are many negative consequences associated with CWS. I feel like I have overlooked the impact this communication disorder may have on students. As I move forward in my career I will be more vigilant to the discrimination towards my students who may stutter and how they are affected by this

neurogenic stuttering occurs when there is damage done to the brain that results in a person stuttering. this could make communication difficult with others as the damage of the brain of the individual continues to make the individual stutter. not to be confused with psychogenic stuttering that occurs due to psychological trauma that was caused. however these two do not occur as frequently as development stuttering. stuttering can lead to the disfluency of an individual during a conversation with another

Throughout the modern era stuttering has caused many individuals to reshape the way they act or think. For people affected by stuttering, alterations are real and hard to overcome. Much of the world is based on first impressions; the way one acts and converses is an essential building block in relationships, and it helps one to establish an identity for themselves and others to perceive. With stuttering comes several downturns that affect the mind, body, and the way one is perceived. Researchers have noted many effects of stuttering besides those that are physical, and by understanding the causes of stuttering, researchers may find a cure for these individuals.

Stuttering affects about 4% of the population but only 1% of the population will have a long term affect. (Bloodstein & Bernstein Ratner, 2008) Stuttering usually occur when children are learning their speech and language skills but stuttering is most treatable when children are 2-5 years due to the neuronal plasticity. (Yairi, Ambrose, & Cox, 1996) Not all stuttering will disappear during preschool age and will lead into adolescent and adulthood which can have long-term effects on their cognitive function such as emotional and psychological development.

I grew up with a stutter. I wished I had embraced my speech impediment and allowed myself to promote the ways in which I am able to communicate effectively with people instead of dwelling on the difficulty I had in my speech. It was tough for me to speak in front of people throughout grade school, as I would try to get all my words out as clearly as possible even though it was difficult for me to do so. Instead of embracing my slight fallibility, I was ashamed and did not want to acknowledge that I had an impediment. I spoke little in public. As I progressed through high school and the early years of college, I made an effort to improve my speech by forcing myself to take advantage of speaking opportunities. Even as my speech improved, it was still uncomfortable for me to admit that I had an impediment. It was not until my junior year of college that I realized I could use my other refined capabilities in communications in order to connect with people. In lieu of my speaking, I capitalized on my written communication skills and it showed through creating health education materials, assisting show production at CNN, developing a communication for development media initiative in the Solomon Islands, and now currently as the Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Undergraduate Journal of Public Health. Consistent development in my writing ability allowed me to develop the confidence upon improving my

1. Mr. J’s, work on the problems of stuttering which falls under the nature of factual scholarly work. The book seems to address the subject of stuttering which is a type of speech disorder thus his work should be categorized as a non fictional research work. Mr. J work can thus be broadly categorized under the fair use guidelines as experts who work on the subject of stuttering can apply the knowledge and knowhow to positively improve speech patterns in patients with such speech disorder.

The following is a summary of a journal article titled, “Is Parent -Child Interaction Therapy Effective in Reducing Stuttering?” by Sharon Millard, Alison Nicholas, and Frances Cook. This article was published in the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research in June 2008, to report the findings of a research conducted on the effects of parent-child interaction therapy approach (PCIT) on children who stutter. It was conducted to add more research and evidence to the efficacy of using the PCIT approach (Millard, Nicholas, & Cook, 2008 p 636).