Stuttering Facts
Types of Stuttering
Strategies
Speech Challenges
Famous People who Stutter
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These are the parts of the body that work together to help a person speak.

What is lips, teeth, tongue, vocal cords, lungs, and/or brain.

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This is a type of stuttering when no noise comes out.
What is a block?
100
This is a strategy where you stop after every few words to slow down your rate of speech and increase clarity (how well you're understood). This is something a lot of public speakers use like President Obama.
What is pausing?
100

Something a person who stutters can do to make sure stuttering doesn't get in the way of talking to groups. 

What is practicing presentations (answers may vary)?

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The football player who stutters and plays for the Eagles. He also starred in NFL Characters Unite documentary, where he discussed his struggles with being a person who stutters.
Who is Darren Sproles
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The number of people who stutter in the United States.
What is approximately 3 million people?
200
A type of stutter characterized by repeating a sound or word.
What is a repetition?
200
This a strategy that you use when you stutter on a word and then pause, find where the tension is, release the tension and say the word again.
What are cancellations?
200
This is something I do to get stuttering out in the open in the beginning and make sure the person doesn't jump to the wrong conclusions about my speech.
What is advertising stuttering (telling someone I stutter)?
200

This person was President of the United States and is a person who stutters.

Who is Joe Biden?

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Which gender is more likely to stutter into adulthood?
What is males?
300
This is a type of stuttering that causes you to stretch or elongate a sound or syllable of a word.
What is prolongation?
300
This is a strategy that helps you release tension while you're in the middle of a stuttering moment.
What are pull outs?
300

This is an organization that helps people who stutter find community. 

What is the National Stuttering Association?

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She was an actress and model known for her blonde hair and beauty. She once was married to Joe DiMaggio, the famous baseball player. She died in 1962.
Who is Maryilyn Monroe
400
This is a common myth concerning what causes stuttering which is not true. (It may be a trigger, but not a cause!)
What is a nervousness/guilty?
400
This is something some people who stutter do to mask or power through a stuttering moment. It is also something fluent speakers use when they are trying to think of a word or formulate their thought.
What are fillers/interjections/um's?
400
This is a strategy that requires you to release your breath and tension at the beginning of a sentence (whether or not you think you will stutter).
What are easy onsets?
400
This is something you can do to get stuttering out in the open or get used to the feeling of stuttering. It's when you purposely stutter.
What is voluntary stuttering/fake stuttering?
400
This is a famous person who stutters and is the voice of Darth Vader.
Who is James Earl Jones?
500
This is thought to be one factor that contributes to stuttering (hint: there are a number of factors that contribute to stuttering).
What is genetics and the brain, speech/language skills, environment and personal factors?
500
This is the term used to refer to behaviors that occur with stuttering that can be either learned habits or ways to avoid stuttering moments (ex. eye blinking, head nodding).
What are secondary behaviors?
500
This is a strategy that requires you to release tension and ease on to word that you anticipate you will stutter on.
What are prep sets?
500
This is something some people who stutter do to learn strategies to manage stuttering and make sure that it doesn't have a negative impact on your life!
What is speech therapy?
500
This is a famous person who stutters who was a King during WWII. The movie "The King's Speech" was based on his life.
Who is King George VI?
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