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“From Stuttering to… Stuttering” Blog

  • Common Questions 3
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  • Creative Writing 2
  • Cures 1
  • 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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View fullsize You've seen the websites advertising help to make speech "easier" for people who stutter. This is, on its face, great! Making speech easier and more comfortable should absolutely be the direction speech therapists go to instead of fluency.
View fullsize I cannot count the number of times adults have said to me, "Oh, I wouldn't have said that if I had known you had a stutter"

🙄 People know it's wrong to make fun of stuttering but do it anyway. All the time.

Sorry my disability doesn't lo
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The thing about being a disabled LGBTQ+ person is how often there are people who support one part of you but not the other. Where you thought you'd find acceptance, you may instead en
View fullsize This is a common question I see - what do we do about presentations? While a lot of people might have stage fright, people who stutter experience shame and embarrassment due to the way we naturally speak.

It's important to acknowledge that this is d
View fullsize A highlight quote from the stuttering and dyslexic @ninagcomedian, a comedian and disability advocate. Always makes me laugh out loud 😂
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View fullsize People always want to know how it is that I've changed so drastically. I used to hold so much tension in my body that it caused chronic pain to flare. And it was all because of how embarrassed and ashamed I was to stutter. It's like I was living in a
View fullsize To wrap up #NSAW2025, let's remember to stop pushing "just work hard and you can be fluent" lies onto people who stutter.

There is no cure for stuttering. There's not. And it's not achievable to rid of stuttering through "hard work&qu

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