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Seeking participants in Toronto for brain stimulation study 🙂

Seeking participants in Toronto for brain stimulation study 🙂 # Seeking participants in Toronto for brain stimulation study for both people who stutter and people who don't stutter **Research recrui...

It’s always amazed me how we, as AWS, are largely denied disability rights. It’s so difficult for us just to function in our daily lives with unreliable speech, let alone get an opportunity to intervi...

Startup to help people who stutter

Startup to help people who stutter Has anyone taught about tech products that should exist or be built to help people who stutter? There seems to be quite a lot of meditation and therapy apps now, but...

I don’t like to call it a disability but it still is. You can stick a pair of glasses onto someone with bad vision, but take them off and they are still blind. Sure it’s treatable, but you’re only lea...

It's time stuttering becomes a legit disability, because it makes functioning in modern society so difficult....

Update: My selection meetings have been going very well. After struggling and quitting yesterdays meeting, today I requested accomodations for my stutter and all the wards I have been shortlisted for ...

Unfortunately you're not likely to be accepted, but I'd say it might be worth a shot if you go the right channels e.g. find a local welfare officer, get support in application, play up how difficult l...

If *your* stutter is disabling to you, then it’s a disability. Also, many have found that once you learn better habits, the more you practice talking, the less impactful it becomes...

Nope. The thing is, people who stutter are forced to find different ways to cope with everyday life that non-stutters do, often (at least in my experience) at the cost of more expensive or stress. The...

I don’t know in the uk, but in my country in order to be invalid you need a score or 46%. Being a stutterer grants up to 33% which is enough to classify yourself as a civil invalid but not enough to a...

Disability benefits in UK

Disability benefits in UK Hello, I’m wondering if anyone on here stays in the UK and is claiming benefits because of their stutter. If so, how did the process go? I was in work the other day and my ...

Physical disabilities are visible and straightforward to deal with. You put in ramps, get a wheelchair, prosthetics…ect. You get instant sympathy and understanding when people can see your disability....

Stuttering is a disability. That’s why we qualify for certain benefits from insurance and government programs. I had my speech therapy paid for by an adults with disabilities program. I think its co...

it could have also just been totally coincidental. But I think people tend to go 'easier' on anyone with a visual disability if that makes sense. it's not great in a lot of scenarios like business mee...

Federal jury duty. I was chosen to hear about a case from the original pool of people (I usually get called in but just sit until I get sent home). We hear the case details and start weeding people ou...

I thought of one more. My guidance counselor in high school granted me more time while taking the SAT. I have no idea why, but I didn't complain....

When I was in college, I was originally an engineering major and there was no foreign language class requirement. However, when I switched majors I was now subjected to taking multiple foreign langua...

>he doesn't have a disability he has a slight speech impediment, Some very good suggestions have been added here, but this comment stuck out to me. I know you have the best of intentions here but ...

It's nice to see the comments where many people are successfully working in this very competitive job market. It will definitely be great if one of us gets to the top and really considers stuttering ...

A quick google; Several speech disorders, including stuttering, qualify for disability benefits under the Social Security Disability Insurance Program. However, not all speech disorders are treated al...