My
My name is Emily and I’m in the 7th I was in 3rd
Fundraiser for Stuttering grade. My stutter started when
grade, but didn’t get more signifi cant until 6th grade.
I started speech therapy and I learned easy onset, light contact, rephrasing, and slowing down. This year in my Language Arts class, I’m doing a project called the “Twenty Time” project where we had to fi nd a world issue and do a project on it. I chose for my research project to do “What causes a stutter?”, “Is there a cure?” and “How can we share awareness?”. I decided to do a bake sale and donate the profi ts to the Stuttering Foundation. My teacher helped me to announce the bake sale to others.
Then, my mom, grandma and
I baked Snickerdoodles, oatmeal cookies, chocolate chip cookies, and chocolate covered pretzels for 3 hours straight and then I held a bake sale in my L.A. classes. Some high school kids came in from my brother’s class and then some just random kids came in! Then, a substitute teacher came in and bought some for her own kids! I raised $80.
I can’t believe how much money I re ceived to help out other people who stutter.
Emily, 7th Grade, from Uniontown, OH CaMaron, 9, from Oxon Hill, MD The Kinds of Talking
Sometimes our speech machines don’t work together as a team. That can make talking come out hard. Kinds of talking are: bumpy, stuck, hard stretchy, and even smooth. When your words get stuck, you just try to let them out.
Rafael, 7, from Bethesda, MD 24
My name is CaMaron. I read letters in the Mary Poppins edition and it inspired me to write this letter. I am a fan of diff erent video game companies, but my favorite is Nintendo. When I talk to mom and dad about the video games I play, I sometimes stutter a lot. I am trying to not stutter. I saw the article about how Emily Blunt stuttered less when she used an accent. During Readers Theater at my school, I tried using an accent for my character, The Climber, and my stuttering was gone! It made me feel really happy. My
SLP, Ms. Starr, helps me with my stuttering by teaching me to use cancellations. My advice is to use whatever strategy works for you! If you’re still in school, ask your teacher if you can get a speech therapist. If she’s cool, like Ms. Starr, you’re lucky.
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