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What do you think about "reading" the stutter in books?

What do you think about "reading" the stutter in books? Hey everyone, I hope this is ok to post here! A little bit of context first: I currently work in a daycare with kids aged four to six years old....

1. The student is brave. The class can learn from him. 2. Help him (and the audience) feel that it's ok to stutter in a public speech. Because sometimes there is no cure for it and when there is no cu...

You're making great offers, and doing exactly what caring teachers do, it's so awesome to see. The compassion is important, and so is encouragement. Encouraging him to power through it is great as wel...

I know your pain☹️. In highschool, at some point during every yr my stutter would get worse and answering attendence calls was really hard. I had to say « present! » and i would have trouble saying t...

If they give you a hard time - there’s always the student accessibility service you can go to and they’ll help you address it. Never had it go to this point but always good to know just in case. :)...

That could work, I will talk to my class professor to just look for me when I raise my hand, suorisingly I haven't had any problem like this in high school. Where it was an even bigger class...

Thank you so much for the kind and fast reply! Of course everything is through zoom, and we spoke for 10 minutes in between my classes on Wednesday. Here’s the kicker — the full story is that it’s act...

With almost no exception, speaking even when you don't want to is the best choice for stutterers. I would highly, highly encourage him to do his speech just like everyone else. But it's also importan...

Seeking advice…

Seeking advice… I teach a course that requires speeches, and I have a person who stutters in class. He’s obviously very intelligent and sensitive. He is taking my class because he wants to be able to ...

Sometimes the prof will say your name then all you do is raise your hand, usually what happens in most of my classes...

I'm not sure if your therapist can help you with this, but I find it helpful to have a few alternate words on standby just in case I block on a word I'm trying to say. For attendance I've used my firs...

I’ve had the same situation in university - what I would recommend is let the profs know in advance about your situation. I found a good amount of them just looked for me in class and let me take it a...

Hard to give attendence in college

Hard to give attendence in college So I will go straight to the centre of the issue, I have a very severe stutter since childhood so I talk really slow due to that, I have severe blockages and that st...

Thanks everyone - appreciate your comments. Everyone has their hurdles to overcome in life and the things that make them different so for me the most important thing is for this to not negatively aff...

Advice for best helping my son (11 yr old)

Advice for best helping my son (11 yr old) I've been reading through this reddit for the last few hours and wanted to ask for advice on how to help my 11 year old son with his stutter.  His stutter st...

I had to take a public speaking class in high school (requirement to graduate), and I stuttered very bad. The teacher knew so he totally understood. I asked for a bit of more time during presentation...

Advice for a Parent?

Advice for a Parent? My 11 year old son had a stutter. It developed a couple years ago, and will come and go. He can go months without noticeably stuttering, and then months when it seems like it ha...

This sounds a lot like me. Nobody knows I stutter and I've tried my whole life to hide it and I've been pretty successful at that. That's probably not the best thing to do, but back when I was young...

I dropped out on a $250k scholarship bc of speech class and now I'm going back and I'm horrified..

I dropped out on a $250k scholarship bc of speech class and now I'm going back and I'm horrified.. Hello, So I don't know what my problem is. I'm around my boys, the family, out to eat, whatever and ...

They are not matured enough so ignore them. Try to focus on your speaking not on stutter. Once you get confidence to talk in class then you will feel relaxed. Try to speak in front of class otherw...