Stuttering Facts
These are 4 parts of the body that work together to help a person speak.
What is lips, teeth, tongue, vocal cords, lungs, brain.
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/turtle talk?
This is one thing a person who stutters can do to make sure stuttering doesn't get in the way at school.
What is talking about stuttering/teaching classmates and teachers about stuttering.
This is something you can do to catch and stay in a moment of stuttering to figure out where the tension is and release it.
what is freezing?
This is something a person who stutters can do to get stuttering out in the open in the beginning and make sure the person doesn't jump to the wrong conclusions about their speech.
What is advertising stuttering (telling someone I stutter)?
This is a person is the President of the United States and is a person who stutters.
Who is President Joe Biden?
This is a strategy that helps you release tension while you're in the middle of a stuttering moment.
What are slide-outs?
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 Marilyn Monroe
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?
This is something some people who stutter do to change or avoid 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?
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 slide-ins?
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?
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?
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 (example: eye blinking, head nodding).
What are secondary behaviors?
This is a strategy that requires you to release tension on a word you will stutter on and bounce through it.
What is easy-stuttering or bouncing?