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“From Stuttering to… Stuttering” Blog

  • Common Questions 3
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  • Creative Writing 2
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  • Lived Experience 14
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Public Speaking with a Stutter: Difference Between Fear and Shame
Lived Experience Ezra Horak 11/26/24 Lived Experience Ezra Horak 11/26/24

Public Speaking with a Stutter: Difference Between Fear and Shame

There’s a fundamental difference between the traditional stage fright and stuttering: stage fright often invokes fear. Stuttering in front of people often invokes shame. What’s the difference?

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Stop Praising Fluent Speech – is Lidcombe Programe “The Monster Program”?
New Therapy, Lived Experience Ezra Horak 5/31/24 New Therapy, Lived Experience Ezra Horak 5/31/24

Stop Praising Fluent Speech – is Lidcombe Programe “The Monster Program”?

Didn’t we, as a society, decide that shaming children about stuttering is a monstrous to do? Or does that only apply to fluent children? Lidcombe Programe makes us question…

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Stuttering Secondaries - Strive to Empower, Not Fix
New Therapy Ezra Horak 4/30/24 New Therapy Ezra Horak 4/30/24

Stuttering Secondaries - Strive to Empower, Not Fix

Instead of assuming that secondaries are inherently bad, we should work with individuals to understand their needs and preferences.

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Children’s Book Review: Jacky Ha-Ha
Reviews Ezra Horak 4/25/24 Reviews Ezra Horak 4/25/24

Children’s Book Review: Jacky Ha-Ha

This 2016 tween book from James Patterson, Jacky Ha-Ha, has been recommended for stuttering representation, but it ended up really letting me down.

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Do We Need to Struggle to Stutter?
Theory, Lived Experience, New Therapy Ezra Horak 4/22/24 Theory, Lived Experience, New Therapy Ezra Horak 4/22/24

Do We Need to Struggle to Stutter?

Is it possible to stutter without much of a struggle? Does that erase the stuttering experience entirely? Perhaps stuttering can be more of a shifting Venn Diagram than a set iceberg…

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New Idaho State University President Stutters?!
People Who Stutter Ezra Horak 12/22/23 People Who Stutter Ezra Horak 12/22/23

New Idaho State University President Stutters?!

Robert Wagner, person who openly stutters, is named the new president of Idaho State University.

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I Don’t Want to “Slow Down”- Let Me Stutter
Lived Experience Ezra Horak 12/15/23 Lived Experience Ezra Horak 12/15/23

I Don’t Want to “Slow Down”- Let Me Stutter

Being excited is my entire personality (jk, kinda not really). No “turtle talk” for me. Don’t tell me to slow down my speech just so you don’t have to listen to stuttering.

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A Stuttering College Student’s Short Story
Creative Writing Ezra Horak 12/10/23 Creative Writing Ezra Horak 12/10/23

A Stuttering College Student’s Short Story

A “fiction” story from Spring 2013, where you get the truth about my feelings regarding speech therapy.

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Shifting the Disability Lens for Stuttering [Mini]
Mini, Theory Ezra Horak 12/2/23 Mini, Theory Ezra Horak 12/2/23

Shifting the Disability Lens for Stuttering [Mini]

The movement from ‘medical model of disability’ to ‘social model of disability’ might answer the “Is stuttering really a disability?” question all together. Of course it is, see: discrimination.

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I Like My Stutter - A Stutterer Still Stuttering
Lived Experience Ezra Horak 11/27/23 Lived Experience Ezra Horak 11/27/23

I Like My Stutter - A Stutterer Still Stuttering

Learning to like my stutter was never the plan. And yet, 10 years after I pledged to myself "I might hate my stutter, but I will thank God for it," I find myself here…. liking it.

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Old Quotes by Child and Adult Stutterers
Stuttering History Ezra Horak 11/18/23 Stuttering History Ezra Horak 11/18/23

Old Quotes by Child and Adult Stutterers

“I hated Kennedy. He talked too much. I hate anybody that talks a lot.” - A 5th grade boy in 1966

And other quotes

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Why isn’t whole-person speech therapy happening for stuttering?
New Therapy Ezra Horak 11/17/23 New Therapy Ezra Horak 11/17/23

Why isn’t whole-person speech therapy happening for stuttering?

Why is it that many speech therapists have shifted their outdated views on what speech therapy for autistic kids looks like, but not for stuttering kids?

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Older Posts
View fullsize During the mid 1900s, there was a big focus on stuttering being caused by trauma, an idea that has been debunked. However, what if the reverse exists? What if the act of living with a stutter in a world designed for fluent speech can lead people to d
View fullsize "How has your relationship with your stutter changed over the years?"

I used to see my stutter as a dragon to slay, and something that held so much power over me. Although fairytales let the human win over the dragon, that isn't real life.
View fullsize Let's introduce the term "dynamic disability" to our wheelhouse! 🛳️

Stuttering is unique in that it varies day to day, moment to moment. Environmental factors play a factor in this, but other times it is seemingly random.

Dynamic disabil
View fullsize What do parents of those raising kids who stutter need to know? What's most important?

My answer is always the same: make home a safe place to stutter openly. Every single challenge your kiddo who stutters will face one day is best served by being r
View fullsize "If there are tools to improve fluency, why don't you just use them?"

Because fluency isn't free. The whole thing here is that stuttering is a disability: that means I stutter when I speak. If I want to compensate for that disability and w
View fullsize James Earl Jones was a person who stuttered until the very end of his life. While one particular organization has co-opted his story of one where stuttering is only a point of pain and regret, Jones had much more complex views on his stuttering. On h
View fullsize Trained professionals have a responsibility to be comfortable with and even embrace stuttering. You know how I decided this? Watching non-stuttering SLPs embrace stuttering and seeing how that impacts their goal setting and client work.

What this do
View fullsize As a young person, I believed my stuttered voice was less deserving than a fluent voice. I imagined only a world in which people valued fluency above all else.

So step one was always imagining a world in which it was possible. It's hard to believe y

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