commentr/StutterJanuary 27, 2014

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Hello! I might not be exactly what you were looking for, but I could try and offer advice. First it would be to stick with it! I’ve been a TA for 3 semesters now, the last class I taught being a lecture based course where I was expected to speak for 30 – 50 minutes depending on the subject (it was problem based so I did get breaks to have my students work problems and such). I discovered that I could end run-on, repetitive disfluencies if I cringed really hard which I think lead my students to believe I had Tourette syndrome. I often worried that this distracted them from the material so I wrote my lectures to be pretty stimulating, not staying on one subject for too long. I think I had one class period where I didn’t stutter at all and it was almost surreal, but then it was followed by a lecture so bad I had to step out of the classroom and get a drink of water I was so exhausted from facial and neck movement. I hope to be a professor someday and I would like to come close to perfecting the way I teach before that happens. Practice helps tremendously. Also, as a side note I once sat in on one of my wife’s classes when she was working on her Masters and her professor, who stuttered much worse than me, successfully gave a three hour long lecture. So lastly, you are not alone!

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School & WorkTherapy & Professional

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Employment & CareerPositive Therapy Techniques