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Help other kids who stutter by sending in your ideas. All you need
to do is email a sentence or two about any of the three statements below. Please send your first name and how old you are. Your ideas will be added to the home page. Maybe your good ideas will help some other kids! Maybe you will get an idea or two yourself from something someone else has said.
Maybe you've been teased by being called a name. Maybe someone has even said, "You talk like Porky Pig!" Warner Brothers and Porky Pig have a poster for you to help show that there is nothing wrong with being different. You can even copy this "Top of the Tune Squad"
Everyone's Unique and Th-th-that's Good Folks! poster, free, if you want to.
The Stuttering Foundation has a book written by a girl who stutters and is teased at recess; read what she does about it. Trouble at Recess
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Key Pals
Kids, have your mom or dad or speech clinician help you find a key pal who is also working on speech.
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Good Stuff By and For Kids!
Good Stuff FOR Kids Who Stutter
Tammy Bryant-McMillin is a speech therapist. She has put online a fun activity: Stuttering Awareness Game
You Are In Control, a game for children who stutter, their families, and friends. You must have Adobe's Free Acrobat Reader. You can download it at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
John Ahlbach is a teacher. He has written a Stuttering Presentation Guide if you want to help your classmates and others learn more about stuttering. Michelle and Judy have made some pictures that can also help.
Rudi and the Little Stuttering Monster a play written by Marianne Engleken. One idea is to make puppets to produce the play!
Three Baby Bunny Rabbits - a short story by John Karpinski.
Good Stuff BY Kids Who Stutter
If you have written a poem or a short story, made a picture you are really proud of (especially if it helps somebody else understand about stuttering), or have some ideas you would like to share about stuttering, tell me and maybe we can put it here!
Plays about stuttering
Poems about stuttering
Stories about Stuttering
Information about Stuttering
Projects, assignments and presentations about stuttering
Stuttering Acrostics
YouTube presentations about stuttering
Drawing about stuttering
- Lou Heite is a graphic artist. Her job is designing signs, logos, advertisements, and even web pages. She drew a picture called Stutter on her computer. Maybe you'd like to be a graphic artist some day, too. It is a fun job. Why not try to draw your own picture of stuttering on your computer?
- Here is a big Art Gallery of Stuttering with drawings about stuttering by lots of kids and teens who stutter.
- Check the Stuttering Foundation website where kids have also sent drawings (and letters).
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News and Newsletters
Newsletters and News BY and FOR Kids Who Stutter
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Our World
It is interesting to see what stuttering is called in different countries. If you say the words out loud, you will hear that many of them almost sound like stuttering.
It would be interesting to know what kids in other countries think about stuttering and what speech therapy is like in other countries.
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Movies about stuttering
Stuttering: a short animation film - this excellent 8 minute animation was made by 2 students from the Artevelde High School in Belgium.
Telling My Story in Three Words - short video about a fun activity created by Nina Reeves
Stuttering: For Kids, By Kids - is a really nice video produced by the Stuttering Foundation of America. You can watch it for free online.
There are some good movies that show people who stutter in positive roles. These are rated PG, so ask your mom or dad to watch them with you.
- "Paulie" (1998) is a movie about a little girl who stutters and her friend a parrot who cannot fly.
- A Family Thing is a movie about a Black police officer who stutters (played by James Earl Jones) and his half-brother (played by Robert Duval.
- The Right Stuff - a movie about the "space race" has several scenes portraying a woman who stutters, Annie Glenn, the wife of John Glenn.
The next movie was rated R for a "bad word" but it is still an excellent movie about a man who stuttered. Watch it with mom or dad.
- The King's Speech is a movie about the King of England during World War II. It won several big awards!
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Books and Stories about stuttering
There are many books that have children who stutter in them. You might find some ideas for books to read here
There are some stories/books on the Internet about stuttering that you might like to read!
- Changing the Words Around by Alan Badmington (Wales, UK) and illustrated by Christine Badgett-Richards (England, UK
- Everyone's Different by Alan Badmington (Wales, UK)
- The Cracked Jar
- The Can't Be Seen Who Couldn't Squawk by Dale Williams
- Tarby Rockets to Slower Speech by Craig Coleman and Mary Weidner
- Stuttering Stan Takes a Stand - a free online flash-animation books for kids about a squirrel who was teased and bullied about his stuttering who refuses to show that his feelings are being hurt until one day he learns an important lesson from a new friend.
- Sometimes I Just Stutter by Eelco de Geus
- Jeremy and the Hippo: A Boy's Struggle with Stuttering by Gail
Wilson Lew
- Shapiro, David, A Way Through the Forest: One Boy's Story With a Happy Ending (1995)
- Boo
Goodnight to Halloween by Tracy Harrison
- Funny Bunny's Better Ideas, a 4-page "story" with many suggestions for children who stutter. This story first appeared in STAFF, March 1992 (a newsletter from Aaron's Associates). It is reprinted here for non-commercial use only with the permission of the editor, Janice Westbrook.
- Finding Little Bear by Amanda Pitchford, "A children's fairy-tale about a little girl who overcomes her stutter when she gets lost in the woods."
- Trouble at Recess - free download of a children's book from the Stuttering Foundation.
- Izabela: The Story of the Princess Who Stuttered (in Slovenian, with English translation)
Some of the stories/books have pictures to color or activities to do
- My Very Own: I can Do It Storybook! Starring Me by Julie Raynor from the Stuttering Foundation - a 10 page PDF with opportunity to fill in with pictures of a child learning to walk, drink from a cup, turn on the lights, swim, talk, etc. The book concludes "there are so many things to learn to do! And just remember one thing. If something is hard or you need help, don't worry about it. Just keep on trying and pretty soon you will get it!!"
- Our First Talk About Talking is a six page booklet, with pictures children can color.
- Rufus Talks and Talks a children's story/coloring book by Nina A. Reardon, MS CCC-SLP and illustrated by Brit W. Kohls can be downloaded as a PDF file.
- Angel Loves to Talk, by Nina Reardon, illustrated by Brit W. Kohls. A story/coloring book in PDF file.
- More Friends for Jackson by Nina Reardon, illustrated by Brit W. Kohls. A story/coloring book in PDF format.
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Things To Think About
Hints, suggestions, ideas, and stuff like that
A Message to Children Who Stutter
Letters To My Daughter are written by a father who stutters, for his 10-year-old daughter who also stutters. They will be about a variety of topics, including:
How Do People Talk by E. Charles Healey provides some good information.
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Kid to Kid
Kid to Kid is a place where other kids shared ideas or give advice to younger kids who also stutter.
What would you do
- a place where you can read about a situation someone what been in. Open up the short story and then share your ideas with your speech teacher or parents.
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