Stuttering is Cool


My name is Kadee and I stutter. My stuttering feels like my voice box is stuck in the middle of my neck! I like my speech therapy. I don’t know when I started stuttering. The rainbow stutter feels like I’m going down and it feels like I’m not safe. But stuttering is cool no matter what.


Kadee, 7, from Broomfield, CO


Hello my name is Jonathan and I am 8 years old and I am in 3rd grade. I stutter with my speech teacher who is teaching me. My dad used to stutter when my dad was in elementary school. My dad used a strategy to help him with his stuttering. The strategy was to talk slower. With my speech teacher we made a Pokémon/ Pikachu speech man with all of the body parts that we use to talk. My school is bilingual. We talk about different kinds of speech. My speech teacher is going to leave my school. I have one wish. Number 1 a new speech teacher. Sometimes I get really annoyed by saying the word stutter. But one day on December 8, 2016 I said stutter 3 times. Good bye and good luck!


Yours truly, Jonathan, 8, from San Jose, CA


Hi, my name is Carson, and I’m in


8th grade. I use strategies such as slowing down and breathing. I started stuttering a little before 3rd grade. My advice


for stuttering is even if there’s a lot of attention on you, start the word over if you stutter. People might pick on you and you just have to ignore them or tell someone you trust.


Carson, 14


Chittenango, NY


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