20 We Help Each Other
Hi! We go to speech and meet with Ms. N, and, as a team, we help each other reach our goals. We both want to have smoother speech with no “bumpy speech.” Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it is hard.
My name is Harry, and I am 10 years old. I live in Brooklyn, New York. I love soccer and music.
My favorite
soccer players are Marcus Rashford and James Rodriguez. When I learned that James Rodriguez stutter, I thought, “Wow, I didn’t know that he stuttered. That’s awesome!” It’s really cool that someone I like so much stutters like me. My favorite artist is Kendrick Lamar. I recently found out that he also stutters! I liked him before I knew that he stuttered, but I like him even more now.
There are up and down sides to stuttering. For example, some of the up sides are that you are different and stuttering makes you brave. Some of the down sides to stuttering are that you don’t know how people are going to react and you worry about stuttering in front of a group. This year my speech teacher and I made a presentation on stuttering. I took a couple of kids from my class and taught them about it. The most interesting part was when I got to grade them on their fake stuttering. It was fun to be the expert on stuttering.
Harry, 10 Brooklyn, NY
We have other goals, too! When we grow up we can be anything we want. One of us will be an inventor and make plates that never break and a machine that will cook food automatically and it will only take four seconds. And one of us is going to build a restaurant that will serve seafood and meat and will use my friend’s inventions. Gui wants to open a restaurant and Chayton wants to be an inventor. Our drawings show us doing those things.
Gui, 2nd grade Chayton, 4th grade East Windsor, CT
You Are Special
Hi, my name is Lucas. I’m 9 years old and in 4th grade. I have a wonderful teacher. I
have a stuttering teacher, too, and her name is Mrs. V. She is wonderful. I have an awesome family. I started stuttering when I learned how to talk. If you stutter, you are special!
Lucas, 9, from Collinsville, OK Send letters & signed parent permission to: The Stuttering Foundation P.O. Box 11749, Memphis, TN 38111-0749 or email
info@StutteringHelp.org
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