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The Missouri Speech-Language-Hearing Association (MSHA) supported the Stuttering Foundation this year with their MSHA Cares campaign, which raised $864.88.
10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference
One hundred ninety-two delegates from 32 countries met in Oxford, UK, marking 30 years since the first Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC) in 1984. Several age-defying attendees of this year's conference also were present at the inaugural conference.
Some people just don't understand
An excerpt from the book Sometimes I Just Stutter
Help is 'Always Available' for Global Stuttering Community
For Immediate Release
Contact: Greg Wilson
greg@curleycompany.com
571-239-7474
October 22 is International Stuttering Awareness Day
When you feel sad or angry about your stuttering
An excerpt from the book Sometimes I Just Stutter
When you get teased about your stuttering
An excerpt from the book Sometimes I Just Stutter
Children tease each other for many different reasons. A child who is taller than the others is sometimes teased. The same may happen to a child who is very short.Frank Dimitri Has the World on a String
Within the stuttering community, the ability of persons who stutter to sing fluently is quite well documented. Famous singers Ed Sheeran, Mel Tillis, Carly Simon, Bill Withers, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Scatman John, Jason Gray, Kendrick Lamar and Ann Wilson all struggled with fluency despite having award-winning singing voices.
Speak the Speech
My stuttering is often in total remission for long periods of time. Then without warning, the tendency to stutter returns, to stay for a while. During times of speech blocks, to keep myself "fluid," to ease speech, I relied on poems and other lyrics to keep me speaking—not with contemporary free-verse poetry but with "old fashioned" verse of rhyme and rhythm.
Finding the Perfect Fit
Nick Weaver is a proud army brat born in Germany and raised primarily in the Mississippi Delta. He's the COO of a custom made jean company called Blue Delta Jeans, an entrepreneur, an app developer, and a baseball fan. Nick Weaver is also one of 70 million people worldwide who stutter.
