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Hey, speech therapist here! Ask your teacher to get in touch with the speech therapist at your school about this. They will probably do a screening first where they'll just chat with you and maybe hav...

Being good at what you do and still not getting an opportunity to make a career out of it in part because of your stutter is absolutely crushing and there is nothing wrong with including the disabilit...

Stuttering is recognized as a disability by the ADA, and as such you contribute to the diversity of your workplace if you stutter. And guess what? Employers are placing an increasingly higher premium ...

Stuttering a disability in the US if it impacts you a lot. It doesn't count as being "neurodiverse" though. That applies to the autism spectrum and behavorial things, like OCD. Stuttering is grouped w...

Trust me I use to stutter. Now I don't really stutter at all throughout the day, my speech therapist told me stuttering is not classified as a disability....

Stuttering can make you unable to speak. That's the very definition of a disability....

The definition of a disability in the UK under the 2010 Equality Act is ''a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day-to...

It’s a disability depending upon how badly it impacts your ability to communicate. I mark it since it limits my ability to speak in a fairly substantial way. And it can work against you or for you d...

I've only seen it listed as a disability on a few applications in my fairly recent job searches (listed as speech impediment). In TX, I have never received a call back of interest when I checked yes ...

This is a snippet from the UK disability act: Employers must make reasonable adjustments to make sure workers with disabilities, or physical or mental health conditions, are not substantially disadva...

Great point, especially the latter. To add on to this: What country are you from? If from US (Im sure other countries as well) they are required to make a reasonable accomodation for you if you req...

Is there an HR department ? You should request accommodations and if they fire or deny those than that would be discrimination hiding under “performance”...

Yea good advise. My assessor approached me and told me not to worry about the stuttering and pauses so that’s a relief....

Well I don't stutter so I shouldnt give advice but I have quite a lot of experience with oral presentations so I will give some anyway. Maybe it will be useful. You told your assessor you stutter. Pe...

In US, you look at your local government for vocational training g or education, often called vocational. Ask your senator for vocational education. If you stutter, you get a big discount in c...

1. Maybe because you stop giving a shit about a lot of things 2. Depends on severity, so yes if it interferes with daily life or in general. No when it’s just a odd thing 3. Aha who hasn’t lol...

1. There’s several reasons for this. Not only is singing a different part of the brain (more right-hemisphere), it takes some load off of the speech processing centers by providing pre-built intonatio...

I agree with this. Tell HR why you’re resigning, because you felt your disability was being mocked (or worded something similar to that). Maybe even mention the people by name, and if your area has a ...

Idk where you’re from but in Australia (and I’m sure other countries as well), it’s illegal for someone to fire you for a disability (Which is what a stutter can be classified under). Customers are wh...

In this day and age you can find something that fits you. Something that helped me was forcing myself to work jobs that required me to communicate. Even at an interview for a job selling Verizon I let...