How to Deal With Being a Stutterer in School

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Stuttering is a speech disorder and does not reflect on the intelligence of the Stutterer. Many famous people and some singers are also afflicted with stuttering and were able to stop stuttering. If you are one, or know someone who is, then perhaps this article can be helpful.

Steps

1. Learn about stuttering. Find the cause,how it can be controlled, and how to live with it. Understand that it doesn't reflect your intelligence or mean that you are stupid or disabled.
   
2. Make others realize that while you might stutter, you can still be friends. Stuttering is neither catching, make you less fun to be with and able to do everything that theirs can do. Explain to them what you have learned about stuttering, and explain them about it.
   
3. Meeting new people can be made easier, by telling them right out, that you stutter. If they find out when you start to talk, they will not understand, and might laugh.
   
4. Learn how to control stuttering. See a speech therapist who can work with you.
   

Tips

• There are new methods to help you stop stuttering. Research and find where and what they are. You can have your stuttering controlled, or stopped.
  
• Join a support group just for stutters. You can make friends with people who have the same affliction, and will also learn how to control it.
  
• Often stutters are actually people who, literally, talk to fast. When you have something to stay, controlling your speed just might be the key to keeping yourself from stuttering.
  

Related wikiHows

• How to Improve Your Clarity of Speech
  
• How to Give a Speech
  
• How to Find a Speech Therapist
  
• How to Improve Your Clarity of Speech
  

Sources and Citations

• http://www.stutteringcontrol.com/
  
• http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/stutter.asp
  
• http://www.stutteringhelp.org/
  
• http://www.friendswhostutter.org/
  
• http://www.stuttering.com/stutter.htm
  

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