Process
Process
First you will need to define disfluency to your classmates. You need to determine the causes of and facts about disfluency. Explain the different types of disfluencies.
Second, you need to explain your personal experience with disfluency. Describe what it is like to be teased and what you would like to have fellow students do to help you.
Third, describe techniques that you are using to help you become more fluent. You may want to talk with your speech pathologist and together you can describe your therapy using forward flowing speech.
Fourth, find out if there are famous people who have been disfluent and what they did to help with their problem.
Fifth, prepare a questionnaire to be completed by your classmates two days before your presentation and again after your presentation. The questionnaire should consist of the following questions:
1. What do you think causes stuttering?
2. Do you think it runs in families?
3. Do you know someone who stutters?
4. Who stutters more, boys or girls, or is there
no difference?
5. Can you name any famous people who stutter?
6. Has stuttering always been around, or did it just start
happening in modern times?
7. Do all people who stutter, stutter in the same way and
to the same degree?
8. Do people who stutter, stutter when they sing, too?
9. What advice would you give a person who stutters?
10. Would you have a friend who stutters?
Be prepared to answer all the above questions in your presentation.
Finally, record all this information in a log and prepare an oral presentation
of these facts and feelings for your classroom.
Resources
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Talking with a Child Who Stutters
Causes and kinds of Disfluency
Famous People and how they Overcame Stuttering
Book entitled Sometimes I Just Stutter
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