Stuttering: A Formal Analysis

Audience analysis is described as the process of examining information about your listeners. Then using that analysis helps you adapt your message so that your listeners will respond as you wish (Steven A. and Susan J. Beebe, 2015). It is highly important to read your audience when presenting a speech, the first thing I noticed about my classroom audience was everyone has a good sense of humor and were open minded as to what they might be hearing. In this paper I will be analyzing my classroom audience and describing how they might react to my speeches and what is the best way to present my speeches. I will discuss the differences between each person and how their views will shape my speeches as a whole because ultimately I must appeal to my audience.

In the informative speech, I didn’t many things that were admired and distracting during the speech, and I hope to improve on those distracting interrupting acts on my next speech. During the speech, I did some items that were a little distracting through the speech. As I watched my speech I noticed I had some awkward pauses, bad transitions, some um’s, and a little stuttering throughout the speech. If you look at the speech I tend to stutter which is a little distracting. Talking about the festival Diwali I talk about Rangoli and its colored pattern I stutter and forget what I am explaining. Another thing I could improve on is my transitions when hearing the speech, the transitions are a little rough and not as smooth. During the transition when I switch from talking about the celebrations to the language I say, “with all these celebrations it tends to bring many religions and languages together” doesn’t really make sense and could be spoken a little smoother. Stuttering is also a part of the speech I did during the speech which distracting. Throughout the speech, I stutter during different parts and one of those parts being when I am talking about the different traditions when eating Indian food. I say, “some of the traditions when people eat in India are well we all we eat on our hands,” which is a little annoying. During the speech, I also said um’s during the speech. When citing my source on languages I said some ums, repeating the citation from the notecard. During the speech I had a little tough time with stuttering at moments, saying some um’s, bad transitions, and some pauses in the future I tend to improve it for the next speech.

- What I did well during my speech was looking at my audience. I was always facing my audience and have a quick view to my PowerPoint. I believe I did well on these aspects because I wasn’t like the other students always looking at the PowerPoint and not even facing the audience. I know this is a public speaking class and the point is to talk to our audience while facing them.

This documentary focuses on the journey of seven different individuals who are considered people who stutter. I believe it is important to note the statistics of the prevalence of stuttering mentioned in the video. The statistic states that 1 out of 100 adult and 5 out of 100 children are people who stutter. This prevalence is important for speech therapists to become informed and equipped to treat this population. This documentary gives great insight on the struggles and successes of this population.

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The capacity of speeches can be seen through its impact on human emotions and its capability to change the thought patterns of its audience. This is

This week, and all the assignments and reading it entailed, will be extremely vital as we look more into future assignments and quizzes. After our first quiz, which allowed us to establish some fundamentals in public speaking (ex. types of anxieties and the canons of rhetoric), we had a thorough in class discussion and were given the rubrics for our next assessment. Whilst analyzing these two topics I’ll be discussing how they could positively impact one’s readiness for the upcoming speech.

I can sympathize with the man in the video because I have had this happen to me before except I kept speaking and didn’t stop. When I watch this video I can feel how embarrassed and awkward the man is getting. When it comes down to making speeches I have apprehension, my words start to slur a little but you probably wouldn’t know until I told you. Because, it all happens in the inside my heart races really fast and it feels like I can hear everyone’s thoughts in my head. One thing from the video I would like to use for my communication skills is to focus less on the audience and deliver my information to

The research completed by Li, Arnold, & Beste-Guldborg presented an investigation in the perception of protective service workers toward people who stutter (PWS), and whether these perceptions are similar among non-protective service workers. This article provided an interesting dichotomy between those that would be providing assistance in many different situations and those who would perhaps be requesting the assistance or needing to explain their actions. They hypothesized that protective service workers—defined as law enforcement, fire fighters, customs officials, private investigatros, and interestingly, lifeguards, among others—would show a difference in attitudes of PWS, in comparison to the general population, which could potentially

When discussing stuttering, researchers often focus on the impact of speech-language abilities and motor abilities. Few studies have examined psychological variables and their impact on people who stutter (PWS). The communication emotional model (CE) attempts to account for emotional development and its influence on children who stutter (CWS). The CE model does not state that poor emotion regulation causes stuttering; however, it suggests that quantity, quality, and the efficacy of an individual’s emotional regulation can impact different instances of stuttering. Current research does not provide information on the impact of emotional regulation on stuttering. There is research, providing information on the difference between CWS and children

I am one of those who suffer from butterflies, that uncomfortable feeling in my chest and stomach, before speaking in public. This is not only a problem for myself, but it is also a common fear and a concern for many people. My purpose is to denounce a few dynamics I feel have helped me to become a more effective speaker and to manage my butterflies. I will prove to you that strong body language makes ideas and feelings more clear, vigorous and engaging. First, I will show how eye contact unconsciously engages the audience. Second, I will prove that vocal emphasis is the key to a vigorous speech. Third, I will confirm that gestures reinforce the ideas of the speech, making the speech

My first strength that has shown though most of the semester is eye contact while giving my speeches. In three out of the four speeches I have given this semester, I have gotten positive feedback from both my peers and professor on my eye contact throughout the entire speech. With the speech I did poorly on in the eye contact category, I just wasn’t confident in my memory and wrote too much down on my note cards. I gained my good eye contact ability mainly from practice before I even took this class. When I was young I could never look someone in the eye, it just felt weird, but after my mom gave me the advice to try and identify a person's eye color and the different colors they have in their eyes I slowly grew better at looking

In public speaking of any form to a diverse group of individuals, my main consideration as the speaker is my concentration on the audience that I am speaking to. In starting an effective presentation,

Conclusion goal: To tell my fellow students that practicing public speaking is fun with the help of the generic guidelines above, although full of apprehension.

One of the issues I saw when watching my speech was my eye contact. While I did try to look up as much as possible, I found that I kept flicking my eyes up quickly rather than keeping eye contact for a longer period of time. This was distracting for me as I was watching it. I only had slight eye contact when I went to reference my visual aids. My lack of eye contact showed that even though I had practiced my speech, I came off as unprepared. With what little eye contact I did have, it showed that I was reading what I had in front of me. Larson stresses the use of eye contact very heavily in the book. He says that the person should “look up as often as possible” ( ), which I seemed to have done;