Anyone know anything about stuttering?

Question

Well I've been stuttering ever since I was around 5 yrs old. I didn't think it was that big of a deal because it didn't interfere much with what I wanted to say. Its been going fine for years.

Now...I'm in high school (11th grade). This year is the worst year for me. My stuttering has caught up dramatically. I'm stuttering in almost every sentence I say. I sometimes can't even say what I want to. When a teacher asks me a question, I know the answer but I cant say it, so I just say that I don't know.

Well...now I'm extremely self conscious, and I'm getting worried that its just going to get worse!

Well I'm enrolled in a competition called "DuPont challenge" where I pick ANY topic and write an essay on it, then hand it in with hopes that I win the money and prize.

The subject I want to write about in my essay is Stuttering. I've been trying to find technical websites that have to do with stuttering, but I'm not having any luck in finding one. Does anyone know a website I can use?

Answer 1

There is an immense amount of information about stuttering at www.stutteringhelp.org. Look at these pages:
http://www.stutteringhelp.org/default.aspx?tabindex=515&tabid=525

http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=35 plus all the links in red and in blue.

http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=17

http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=113

http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=81 and the references given at the bottom of the page

Go to the home page and click on the newsletter which has research articles in it. This page http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=22 has older newsletters.

Go to this page http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=206 and you can get a list of speech therapists in any state. Some of them have their e-mail address listed. Perhaps you could get some information from some of them.

Answer 2

Yes, here's all the links from the British Stammering Association, with all the US and International links as well. Look at their homepage too because there is a lot of stuff on the site you might find useful.
http://www.stammering.org/links.html
Good luck with the essay, and in finding help with your own stutter if that is what you feel you need.

Answer 3

try wikipedia one of my teachers is like 40 and he still stutters its something that will stay forever unless science can fix it.
the following are each chapter in wikipedia.
1 Classification
2 Characteristics
2.1 Primary behaviors
2.2 Secondary behaviors
2.3 Variability
2.4 Feelings and attitudes
3 Sub-types
3.1 Developmental
3.2 Acquired
4 Causes of developmental stuttering
5 Treatment
5.1 Fluency shaping therapy
5.2 Stuttering modification therapy
5.3 Anti-stuttering devices
5.4 Anti-stuttering medications
6 Prognosis
7 Epidemiology
8 History and cultural aspects

Answer 4

i'm sorry yet stuttering seems to be a self assurance element....i might recommend practising having conversations with human beings you do no longer stutter with or maybe animals.....i comprehend that folk with stuttering problems do no longer stutter whilst chatting with animals

Answer 5

SPEECH DISORDERS: GENERAL ADVICE FOR ALL DISORDERS: Use the WebFerret search engine, your own, and the Wikipedia, and Google websites. GROUPS, at Myspace, Yahoo, and/or Google may be of assistance, and also contact the state, and national bodies for more information. STUTTERING :Try deliberately slowing your speech, or putting some marbles in your mouth. See http://www.stutteringhelp.org/ and http://www.stuttering.net/ and http://www.stutteringtreatment.org/ and http://www.speakeasy.org.au/ and http://www.stuttering.org/bsrp.html ($$$) & http://www.casafuturatech.com/Books/ (Books/NoMiracle Cures/) (NoMiracleCures/index.shtml) & http://www.slc.sevier.org/comdis.html & http://www.perfect-voice.com/ Call (USA) 1800 992 9392 and 1800 221 2483. It may also be helpful to visit page 38, on self confidence, and the EFT version for use in public places, for which you can reasonably claim to have a headache, as you massage your temples, at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris (on page 3C there is a direct link at * and pages 2, 2.q. and 2.o also refer) saying/subvocalising to yourself something like: "I accept myself completely and deeply, even though I may stutter". LISPING: http://members.tripod.com/Caroline_ (Caroline_Bowen/lisping.htm) PUBLIC SPEAKING: http://www.uncommonknowledge.com/ & http://www.voicebusiness.com.au/ and see social anxiety, at ezy-build on page 9. Use the WebFerret search engine, or Altavista & Yahoo, and the Wikipedia, and Google websites.