True/False
False! Stuttering can change from day to day and be better or worse depending on the situation or who you are talking to.
I-I-I-went to-to-to the store
Repetition, prolongation, or block?
Repetition
Say with a repetition:
A banana in pajamas just danced with a kangaroo!
Good job!
This part of the machine helps us think of what to say.
Brain
Stuttering is only about bumpy speech, or disfluencies
False. Stuttering includes disfluencies, but can also create tension in your body and affects how you feel about yourself.
I went to the piiiiiiicnic and had a hoooooot dog.
Repetition, prolongation, or block?
Prolongation
Say with a block:
My pet turtle wears sunglasses and loves pizza.
You rock!
This part of the speech machine vibrates creating our voice
Voice box/ vocal folds
I need to work on stuttering only during my speech classes.
False! Working on stuttering in a variety of settings will be the most beneficial.
------Please pass me the -----pepper
Repetition, prolongation, or block?
Say with a prolongation:
The rainbow sneezed glitter all over the playground.
Awesome!
These three parts of the speech machine make speech sounds
Lips, tongue, teeth
Stuttering can be 100% "cured."
False, while there is no "cure" for stuttering, you can learn to manage it and reduce the number of disfluencies in your speech.
During the summer IIII want to go to the beach.
Repetition, prolongation, or block?
Prolongation
Say with a repetition:
The moon told me a bedtime story last night.
Nice!
This part of the speech machine give us air and helps us breathe
Lungs
It's okay to stutter.
Absolutely true!
Today-today-today is WWWWednesday
Repetition, prolongation, or block? (pick 2)
Say with a block:
I saw a unicorn eating spaghetti on a skateboard.
Woohoo!
Does our speech machine still work well if one part is "broken"?
No!