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Any Teachers with Stutters/Fluency Issues?

Any Teachers with Stutters/Fluency Issues? I'm in my second year of University, and am studying Education. I've had a mild stutter my entire life, and I know that it's going to stick with me forever. ...

I perform in my school musicals with no problem. I can sing and act on stage without a single stammer. But one I'm off stage I often find myself babbling like a fool; it's the most frustrating feeling...

I'm 29 and have a pretty good handle on my stuttering but I still don't like reading out loud to a group. I can talk to a group, sure; just don't ask me to read out loud. ...

Sophmore in high school here. > I remember sitting in classes where we would be going around the room taking turns reading and just dieing inside knowing that i would have to speak and stutter ver...

I'm somewhat apprehensive about this, but I'm going to Martinique to live with a host family in about 8 months.

I'm somewhat apprehensive about this, but I'm going to Martinique to live with a host family in about 8 months. So, I'm a lifelong, somewhat severe stutterer. I'm 20 and in college. I've taken Frenc...

Mine used to do that in high school. I could do any public speaking project. Something happened in college though, I am 3 years in and my anxiety levels are so high when I speak publicly I often have ...

I don't think we need accommodations (what type of accommodations would help?) but more comprehension from non-stuttering people would help a lot. I have a lot of issues reading aloud from a book whil...

Commenting for later. I'll share my story after work, it is quite similar to yours! Edit: Here I am. So, I also have a stutter since I was a child (am 22 now, in third year of university). I pl...

I believe that I stutter because I don't want to stutter. edit: I have this unmanageable fear that the other person will judge my speech that I second guess myself. /edit I'm so wrapped up in my head ...

Yeah I have a similar problem, I think I'm so worried that I'm going to stutter and embarrass myself that i talk so fast no one can comprehend me:/ I know it's frustrating, but keep trying to work thr...

It's worse when they ask to read the syllabus aloud. It kills me. I hate, hate the first days of class....

If you plan on saying any words at all during the year (likely), people are going to find out eventually that you stutter. See this as an opportunity for 1. People to find out on your terms 2. You t...

I dealt with it when I was in school. Actually, I still have to deal with it every now and then. What I would do is practice, atleast the saying your name part. Come up with some ideas of what they mi...

As an incoming senior in high school I've used this tactic since freshmen year, be open about it. After every class on the first day of school, stay behind and talk with your teacher. Say that you att...

Speak slowly. If you are recording it via Skype, have post-its on your screen reminding your to BREATHE. You can also try to speak with your eyes closed. Don't worry about anything around you, only th...

Ok. When I took speech terapy, the lady said to "taste the sounds". In visual ways you look like a retard, but since your doing a podcast, it's ok I guess ! So try it, speak slowly and "taste" every s...

just tell them that you stutter. when you talk to them and they say something about it, tell them that you just stutter. my speech therapist at the school would send a email to my new teachers that i...

I have been teaching middle and high school for a few years now, and like many other teachers here, I am up front about it at the start of the year. I think it really does help to create a supportive...

In college, speaking on stage in front of industry panelists and 200 other people about my senior project. As someone with a stammer (trips over words), I was able to speak clearly and slowly, after p...

I'll add my own story (which is why I posted - never met another one, and I'm curious!). My first gig was plain old ESL in China. I had 50 students and all of them were older than me and doctors, so ...