DON’T GIVE UP! YOU’VE GOT THIS!


Hi. My name is Julia. I go to Greenwich Central School. I do gymnastics, lacrosse, and soccer. My personal favorite is gymnastics because I love competition! I’m proud because I have a lot of trophies, medals, and ribbons from competing.


I started stuttering around the ages of 3 or 4. I started speech therapy when I was in 3rd 5th


grade. Now I’m in


grade, and I have improved a lot with stuttering because I’ve worked so hard to practice my strategies that I’ve worked on in speech therapy.


To me stuttering is very annoying. It feels like a volcano erupting because all of the words are trying to come out at once, but when I use my strategies I don’t stutter. My most helpful strategies are slow rate, easy onset, and full breath. Speech therapy has helped me a lot! We work on boosting my confidence with talking and my feeling about stuttering. My advice to other kids who stutter is: don’t give up! If you keep practicing your strategies, chances are you will not stutter as often. You’ve got this!


Julia, 10, from Greenwich, NY I’M BETTER OFF QUIET


Sometimes when I stutter, I feel like there are more eyes watching me than usual.


Julian, 13 Charlotte, NC


Dragons Are Brave


Thank you publishing my letter! I loved seeing it in the magazine! I hope you like my dragon – it’s a lava dragon. I drew this dragon to share because dragons are brave and we have to be brave when we stutter!!


Taran, from Pittsburgh, PA


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