Important People
This former Vice President is a person who stutters.
Who is Joe Biden?
Stuttering often runs in families. (T/F)
True
A stutter involving a repetition of sounds, syllables, or one syllable words.
What is a repetition?
A strategy where you say a word that begins with a consonant by lightly brushing your speech parts together.
What is light contacts?
This part of the speech machine is not only important for eating and biting, but is also important for making a good "s" sound.
What are your teeth? Without your teeth, your tongue could come out of your mouth when making an 's' sound and turn into a 'th' sound.
This famous actress starred in Pretty Woman and is a person who stutters.
Who is Julia Roberts?
All cultures have stuttering. (T/F)
True. Stuttering is found in all parts of the world and in all cultures and races, it affects people of all intelligences, incomes, male or female and ages.
A stutter where the sound or air flow continues but your speech parts are frozen.
What is a prolongation?
A strategy that you use on vowels, r, l, m, n and involves getting your vocal cords to vibrate gently at first.
This is where vocal cords are found. When the folds move together and apart, they change the way the air from the lungs moves and makes different sounds.
What is the voice box or larynx?
This famous actor was recently quoted as saying ""I was the other day on the set of Captain America, and they said 'Action!" and I said, 'G-g-g-et ...' It was a G day. So I have my days. I have G days, I have P days, I have B days, I have S days, and I'm still stuttering. But I figured out a way to do it."
Who is Samuel L. Jackson?
Nervousness causes stuttering. (T/F)
Nervousness does not cause stuttering. Nor should we assume that people who stutter are prone to be nervous, fearful, anxious, or shy. They have the same full range of personality traits as those who do not stutter.
A type of stutter where your airflow or voice shuts off.
What is a block?
Consonants at the beginning of words are easier to say with an easy onset. True or False?
False. Vowels at the beginning of words are easier to use with an easy onset.
This muscle sits below your lungs and helps push the air out of your lungs.
What is a diaphragm?
This award winning singer and songwriter is a person who stutters.
Who is Ed Sheeran?
Stress can aggravate stuttering. (T/F)
True. Stress does not cause stuttering, but it can aggravate it.
A type of stutter where someone uses um, uh, like.
What is an interjection?
It helps to tell a person to “take a deep breath before talking,” or “think about what you want to say first.” True or False?
False. This advice only makes a person more self-conscious, making the stuttering worse. More helpful responses include listening patiently and modeling slow and clear speech yourself.
These move together and apart (vibrate) as air from the lungs passes through. They turn air into sound.
What are vocal cords?
What percent of the world stutters?
1%
A type of stuttering where one changes words to avoid stuttering. Example: want a ha... [block] pepperoni pizza.
What is a revision?
Winston Churchill was the British prime minister during WWII. He used this strategy during his speeches.
Pausing and phrasing. His speeches were notable for their pauses which gave them dramatic effect. Listen to the Their Finest Hour for an example.
This part of the speech machine is essential for making sounds like 't', 'd', 'k', 'g', 's', 'L' among others.
What is the tongue?