STRETCHING IS HELPFUL!
Hello. My name is Noah. I live in Hornell, NY and I go to Hornell Intermediate School. I am 12 years old and I stutter sometimes. I love Pugs because they are friendly. What I use for my stuttering is stretching and it helps me because when I say “Puuuuugs” it stretches it out and makes it so I don’t stutter. When I do stutter I also stop myself and restart.
Noah, 12 Hornell, NY
I Will Show That I Am Capable
My name is Riley and I am an eighth grade student from Sherman, Connecticut. I have an 8 year old brother who is very good at math, and a mother who is a daycare owner. My father is an electrician and a lot of other things as well. I also have three cats and a dog.
I’ve had stuttering since I was in third grade. I didn’t really know it at the time, until my mom got me to a speech teacher who was Mrs. V. Over the years, I’ve gotten better to control my stutter, though sometimes it does come out. It’s sometimes irritating because it takes a lot for me to get my words out and sometimes I don’t make sense at all. But thanks to the people around me, I’ve gotten really better at trying to overcome it.
Before I met Mrs. V., my mother taught me a technique to slow myself down. She told me to take a deep breath and think of what I’m going to say, and breathe out and say it again.
Mrs. V. also taught me other ways of making my speech fluent. One of them is blocking where you cut yourself off and you re-say the sentence over again. She also taught me to slow down my speech with a metronome. One of my favorite strategies is actually singing, for you cannot stutter when you sing. For one of my science projects, instead of telling people what I did, I wrote a poem and sang it to the class. My science teacher told me I was a very inspiring and commendable student for doing this.
Along with stuttering I have ADHD and dyslexia. Currently I’m actually writing a book to overcome these disabilities to show what I’m capable of. I encourage others to do the same because we might be different from other people but that’s what defines us in this world.
This is also my last year in this school so I will be leaving Mrs. V. soon. I feel like I have the tools to move on, but I will never forget the teacher who helped me with my speech.
Riley, 8th grade, from Sherman, CT 23
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