Famous People Who Stutter
This Talk Show and Game Show Host is reported to be a person who stutters:
Who is Steve Harvey?
You should let your stutter keep you from activities you enjoy
What is Myth!
When you start the first word of your thought with a very relaxed slow voice.
Easy onset
m m m m my dog at my homework
what is repetition?
There are approximately ___ people in the US who stutter
What is 3 million?
A Broadway, television, and movie star, is well-known for his voice as Darth Vader in Star Wars
Who is James Earl Jones?
Stuttering has multiple components one of which being genetics or family history
What is fact!
The first word of each sentence is ssssssslow and ssssssstretchy
What is Long Starts
ssssssss Sometimes I like to eat pizza.
What is prolongation?
True or False: Most stutters find it helpful when people tell them to slow down or finish their sentences for them.
What is false?
former NBA player and a current television sports analyst was drafted by the Orlando Magic with the first overall pick in the 1992 draft
Who is Shaquille O'Neal?
Stress can cause stuttering
What is Myth: it does not cause stuttering but can aggravate it.
A strategy where you take breaks for breathing and pausing, by adding pauses in between ideas/ words/ phrases.
Pausing and Phrasing
m y mom likes to sing
What is block?
True or False: People who stutter are less intelligent than those who don't?
What is false?
Multi-Grammy award winning Hip-Hop ( Rap) Artist
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
What is Fact?
A strategy where you freeze on the stutter, relax that part of speech machine that you feel is tense and keep going on the word
What is Pull or slide out?
True or False : Repetitions can only occur on a single speech sound
False: they can occur on whole words or even phrases
True or False: Everyone is disfluent at some point or another.
What is True?
Some scholars believe this biblical character, the leader and liberator of the Hebrews, stuttered
Who is Moses?
Stuttering can vary at times
What is fact: stuttering can cease for days, weeks, and even years then reappear.
What is Easy stuttering or psuedostuttering?
True or False : Eye twitching, head turning, and fidgeting are also a factor of stuttering
True- these are secondary behaviors
Name 1 "magic cure" for stuttering