What is stuttering? What causes stuttering? Can it be overcome? How should someone respond to someone who stutters?

1. Scientist Isaac Newton
President
Theodore Roosevelt
Actress
Emily Blunt
Golfer Tiger Woods VP Joe Biden
Newscaster
John Stossel
They All Have
Something in Common

3. What Is Stuttering?
• A speech condition
• Impacts about 3 million people
in the U.S.

4. • Instead of saying what they want to
say, a person who stutters might…
–Repeat letters or parts of words
–Draw out words
–Not be able to start or complete a
word
What Is Stuttering?

5. It Impacts People Differently
• In some, stuttering is more pronounced
than in others
• Each person who stutters will have
good days and bad days

6. What Causes Stuttering?
• Still somewhat of a mystery
• Genetics (family history)
• Four times more common in males than
in females

7. Famous People
Who Stutter

8. Shaquille O’Neal

9. Julia Roberts

10. James Earl Jones

12. “God’s gift to me
was my stuttering.
Time and time
again, my parents
taught me that
being different is
no barrier to
success.”

13. “I took my struggles with speech as a sign
from God that communication would play a
major part in my life.”

14. Can Stuttering Be Overcome?
• Clearly, yes
• No miracle cures
• Effective therapies
• Great speech therapists

15. What I’m Doing
• Working with speech therapist Mrs.
Mitchell
• Working with stuttering specialist Kristin
Chmela

16. My Most Important Lessons
• Stuttering is just something I do
sometimes; it isn’t who I am
• What a person has to say is more
important than how they say it

17. What You Can Do
• Give people who stutter time to finish
what they’re saying
• Don’t finish their sentences for them
• As with everybody, treat someone who
stutters how you’d like to be treated