Personal Narrative: Career Dress-Up Day In My Kindergarten Class

This documentary focuses on the journey of seven different individuals who are considered people who stutter. I believe it is important to note the statistics of the prevalence of stuttering mentioned in the video. The statistic states that 1 out of 100 adult and 5 out of 100 children are people who stutter. This prevalence is important for speech therapists to become informed and equipped to treat this population. This documentary gives great insight on the struggles and successes of this population.

the Modifying Phonation Intervals (MPI) Stuttering Treatment Program With Adults Who Stutter. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 24(2), 256-271.

I am documenting my visit to Daniel Hand High School’s Career Fair on March 25, 2018. The Career Fair was a learning experience for me to take with me because the career fair taught me of how I could have many opportunities to explore from than just having one opportunity for your future. However, I am still concerned about my future outlook on a successful career since autism mostly has a negative attention to prognosis. Financial planner was a good suggestion for me to interview because of my outgoing and caring personality in school and my ability to work with percentages in math in and out of school. I was also interested in looking at becoming a speech pathologist in the Career Fair because I want to help those who were just like me when

Stuttering is a disability that affects over two million of the adult population and can be obtained through genetics. This disability is not just getting stuck on certain words or saying like a few times in a sentence. The disability involves tripping on sounds and in severe cases not being able to verbalize what needs to be said. Yeomen uses an example of a man who could not find the words to ask the women he truly was in love with to marry him and ended up marrying the wrong women. Stuttering can change the lives of so many because they never learn to overcome that tragedy.

In this blog, she discusses topics such as authenticity and vulnerability. She defines messy versus clean stuttering and the different emotions associated with each. She speaks about how accepting her stutter affects not only her feelings of personal identity and belonging but also her students’ feelings of respect and acceptance towards her. Furthermore, she touches on different issues like small communities, covertness, and separate classrooms which create an isolated feeling for those who stutter and prevent community building. She builds off of her own experiences as a

The Stutterer Story was written by Dr. Frederick Murray. He tells about his life growing up as a stutter and his experience with other people. Dr. Murray describes his most difficult times and how living with this type of disorder has affected him. The purpose of this essay is to outline the life of Dr. Murray in his stuttering as well as expressing my own reflection on how others might view stutterers.

For some, a conversation is scary and hopefully avoidable with a smile while others don't think twice about the way something is said. In the article "The Everyday Anxiety of the Stutterer," by Joseph P Carter, he explains what it's like living day to day with a stutter.

When I was in elementary school, my teacher had me evaluated for a few issues, including speech. It was discovered that I had a speech impediment, so I was put into speech therapy and given an individualized education program, or an IEP. Once a week I would meet with a therapist during school for an hour session. There, I learned about how a body speaks, why I stuttered, and how to overcome my stutter. I practiced breathing exercises, tapping, enunciating skills, and general reading ability.

I had arrived at my destination- a lot sooner than I wanted to. I hurried in the classroom to get the best seat, which was always in the back row by a window. The professor walked in with an energy that I had never encountered before. She carried herself with an air of confidence. She spoke with certainty. She introduced herself and dove right into the first lesson before the first five minutes of class were even over. She informed us that today we would be introducing ourselves to the entire class. I could feel myself becoming nauseous. My hands started shaking and my mind started sorting through a million cliché facts about myself. I could not seem to think of my favorite color at the moment. I am an average, boring, normal eighteen-year-old girl who has a crippling fear of public speaking. That is as far as I got before I heard the professor call my

I was volunteering at the Career Closet that day, when a woman came in with 24 trash bags overfull with clothing, shoes, and prescription medication. As I was unloading the bags from her minivan and bringing them down to the back room of the Closet, she followed me around, telling me the story of her friend’s death. She had had a series of heart attacks and strokes, and lay dying in bed for over a year before her heart finally gave out. Her husband refused to move any of her belongings, but when he got a new girlfriend, she wanted space in their wardrobe, so she finally packed up all of the clothes and handed them off to the woman to whom I was now patiently listening ramble on and on, so she could find a place to donate them.

It was the crack of dawn on a Saturday morning. I remember being excited for this day because I did not have school, and, like most six year olds, I loved to watch cartoons every Saturday morning. As I watched, however, my father came into my room, and instructed me to put on my clothes and prepare to go to the doctor’s office. I immediately became excited as I loved to go and visit my pediatrician. When we arrived there however, it was not the doctor I anticipated. It was a speech therapist. While I did not realize why I was there, my doctor explained that she was going to help me with my stutter. Being a kindergartener at the time, I was not bullied or picked on for my stutter. However, as I got older, my classmates started to point it out

t was time for my sixth grade water cycle presentation in front of my 30 student class. I had delayed my presentation as much as I could, and even missed a school day because of my huge fear of speaking out loud. It wasn’t because I feared crowds or hated public speaking, it was because I had just moved countries, my English vocabulary was limited, and I was still adjusting to the new educational setting. I had my flashcards ready, filled with how to pronounce complex words like evaporation and condensation (written as: eva-por-eshon and con-den-sechon). As I started speaking, I heard giggles from my classmates. Soon, laughter filled the room, because I kept mispronouncing the word run-off. Seeing faces mocking me, and comparing my simple project

Stuttering may be triggered by being afraid or feeling insecure. For example, most people feel nervous before presenting in front of a class; therefore, the stuttering on a person will show more. They explained two types of stuttering: persistent developmental stuttering (PDS) and acquired stuttering. Developmental stuttering involves the expansion of stuttering while growing up. Acquired stuttering is gained after a traumatic brain injury. There are two different predictors in why stuttering occurs. The first one is triggered by conflicts children undergo through that has not been fixed, and the second one is learned behavior that has not been fixed throughout childhood years. When stuttering is simply a behavior, it is easier to treat. Respiration,

As a child, I felt overwhelmed with the adversity of stuttering. Not only did I feel linguistically handicapped, but I also had low self-esteem. While I still stutter, I have improved an ineffable amount and through the progression, I discovered my passion for the brain. I learned that the majority of the discrepancy between my speaking and others started with the brain. In addition, my father specialized in neuropathology at Vanderbilt Medical Center. He pushed my growing interest for neuroscience and mental health. With his presence, I also learned to overcome adversity and to always seek knowledge. Because of this, I attended the University of Tennessee’s Stuttering and Research Program to research about the interdependence between stuttering

When discussing stuttering, researchers often focus on the impact of speech-language abilities and motor abilities. Few studies have examined psychological variables and their impact on people who stutter (PWS). The communication emotional model (CE) attempts to account for emotional development and its influence on children who stutter (CWS). The CE model does not state that poor emotion regulation causes stuttering; however, it suggests that quantity, quality, and the efficacy of an individual’s emotional regulation can impact different instances of stuttering. Current research does not provide information on the impact of emotional regulation on stuttering. There is research, providing information on the difference between CWS and children