How we talk
Types of Stutters
Types of Strategies
Facts about stuttering
100

This vibrates when we talk.

What is the voice box?

100

The type of stutter when you say a sound, syllable, word or phrase more than once.

What are Repetitions?

100

This strategy is when you practice fake stuttering to give yourself control and help practice your strategies.

What is pseudostuttering?

100

This gender that is more likely to stutter.

What are males?

200

Parts of the mouth we use to talk.

What are the tongue, roof of the mouth, teeth and lips?

200

The type of stutter when you stretch out a sound for a long time.

What are prolongations?

200

This strategy is when you try to EASE IN especially with vowels and sounds s, z, f, v, l, m, n.

What is Easy Onsets?

200

This is very famous man who stutters and became President of the United States.

Who is Joe Biden?

300

It controls everything for us to talk.

What is the brain?

300

Words like um and like.

What are Fillers or Interjections?

300

This strategy is when we pause AFTER a moment of stuttering, figure out where there is tension, release it, and try speaking again.

What is cancellation?

300

Some stutterers do not stutter when they do these activites.

What is sing, whisper, speak in chorus, or do not hear their own voice?

400

Do we talk on the exhale or inhale of a breath?

What is the exhale?

400

The type of stutter when no sound will come out.

What are blocks?

400

This strategy is when we try to move our articulators lightly or softly on forceful sounds like p, b, t, d, k, g.

What is light contacts?

400

This is the number of people in the USA stutter.

What is 3 million?

500

This is the strongest muscle used for talking.

What is the tongue?

500

True or false - Revising (stopping and starting over again) is a type of stutter.

True

500

This strategy is when you try to ease out of a stutter IN THE MOMENT.

What is pull out?

500

The causes of stuttering are complex. But this 1 thing is likely a component.

What is genetics?