What Not to Do When in a Conversation With Someone Who Stutters
I've become somewhat proficient at observing facial expressions and body movements during a conversation. I can read faces, and I don't even need to play a game of poker to do so.
All I need to do is let a stutter slip from between my lips and I can see the full reveal before the last word is even spoken.
Living with a stutter means I have to be even more conscious of the world around me. I have to know the ebbs and flow of a conversation and understand how a conversation works and how it's supposed to sound. Sometimes, I feel like I've turned into a maestro -- able to observe and at times conduct the sounds around me. T...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stuttering Is No One's Fault
Last week the rapper Scroobius Pip was interviewed on the BBC talking about his stutter. In the midst of a great piece on the ways he has been shaped by his speech, Pip starts to talk about the causes of his condition, "Pip's stutter emerged when he was four or five. He thinks it may be related to nearly drowning on a holiday in France - a fact which came to light during a hypnosis session as a teenager. His parents had maintained the incident hadn't been serious but re-living the event made him believe he had been in real danger."
Pip isn't alone. It turns out that nearly everyone has a family tale for why they stutter. ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 12, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why You Shouldn't Laugh at Someone Who Stutters
The bar is packed, and I have to lean across the table to introduce myself. "Hi I'm..." The usual mouth-gapping, eye-opening silence. Followed by the repeated putter of "Ka" "Ka" "Ka." She stares for a second, maybe two. And then she laughs. She looks around the table, reaching out for someone to join her private joke. Met with blank faces from my friends and half-smiles from strangers, she turns back to me, still braying. My mouth is not ready to smile. Even if I wanted to, I'm not able to save her. I'm mid stutter, still reaching deep inside of myself, clawing down into my lungs and my throat, to drag my name out of my m...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Neurophysiology of Stuttering
Stuttering - a speech disorder in which sounds, syllables or words are repeated or prolonged - affects more than 70 million people worldwide. That's 1 percent of the global population. Four times as many men as women are afflicted with the disorder and, while the condition is not life-threatening, it is debilitating as it interferes with effective communication and erodes self-esteem and confidence. (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - February 24, 2015 Category: Disability Tags: Cognitive Source Type: news
The Neurophysiology of Stuttering
New studies provide insight into treatment of stuttering and understanding its physiological basis (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - February 24, 2015 Category: Disability Tags: Cognitive Source Type: news
Speaking freely
(University of California - Santa Barbara) Two new studies from University of California Santa Barbara researchers provide new insight into the treatment of stuttering as well as understanding its physiological basis. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 23, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Brain develops abnormally over lifespan of people who stutter
The largest-ever MRI imaging study of stuttering is the first to examine brain changes across the lifespan. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 9, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Brain develops abnormally over lifespan of people who stutter
(University of Alberta) The largest-ever MRI imaging study of stuttering is the first to examine brain changes across the lifespan, says UAlberta researcher and ISTAR executive director. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 9, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Readers turn over new leaf as celebrity memoirs slip out of booksellers’ top 10
Publishers wary of signing well-known names for big money as sales stutter and Guinness World Records big seller again Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 23, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Alison Flood and Caroline Davies Tags: Books Booksellers Autobiography and memoir Fiction Culture Jamie Oliver Life and style Celebrity Jeff Kinney David Walliams Zoe Sugg Gillian Flynn Chris Hadfield Science Source Type: news
These Simple Solutions Will Help You Lead A Happier Life
By Julia Holmes for Men's Journal
When men hit their 40s, their happiness hits the skids. That's just one of the insights that Paul Dolan, a professor of behavioral science at the London School of Economics, has found in his 10 years of studying what makes us happy. In his new book, Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think, Dolan lays out simple solutions for increasing life satisfaction: Structure your days around the things you enjoy, stop toiling away toward goals you may not even want to meet and balance your life with purpose and pleasure.
You slam positive thinking. Why?
Self-help books tell you, ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 28, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why I'm Thankful That I Stutter
Over the years while family and friends gathered at the Thanksgiving dinner table with roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing and other delectables still warm on the plates, we'd share with each other what we're thankful for. Normally, it's friends, family, a new job, an award recently won, a roof over our head and food on the table.
I never thought I'd be thankful that I stutter.
Stuttering was always considered a flaw. It was something that I had to live with for the rest of my life. Something that could be fixed -- maybe -- but would take years of effort. Everyone stutters at s...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 25, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Students astonished by stuttering star
Secondary school students in Australia have helped reveal weird, jittery behavior in a pulsar called PSR J1717-4054. Pulsars are super-dense, highly magnetized balls of ‘neutron matter’ the size of a small city. They form when stars with more than 10 times the mass of our Sun explode as supernovae, leaving behind a compact remnant made of material far denser than ordinary matter. The name pulsar is given to these objects because they spin and emit pulses of radio waves. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 1, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Healthy options when dining out
Dining out can sometimes threaten healthy eating plans. The butter, sugar, and salt that chefs add, plus gigantic portion sizes, can make even a healthy heart stutter. But eating out can be a wonderful and healthful experience with a few adjustments and a little planning, reports the June 2014 Harvard Health Letter.
One quick way to make a meal healthier is to make it smaller. "Large portions are a challenge in many restaurants, and once the food is on the plate, it can be difficult to resist," says Registered Dietitian Kathy McManus, director of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospita...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - May 22, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UCLA scientists hunt down origin of Huntington's disease in the brain
The gene mutation that causes Huntington's disease appears in every cell in the body, yet it kills only two types of brain cells. Why? UCLA scientists used a unique approach to switch the gene off in individual brain regions and zero in on those that play a role in causing the disease in mice.
Published in the April 28 online edition of the journal Nature Medicine, the research sheds light on where Huntington's starts in the brain. It also suggests new targets and routes for therapeutic drugs to slow the devastating disease, which strikes an estimated 35,000 Americans.
"From Day One of conception, the mutant gene that caus...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 28, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Stuttering
Title: StutteringCategory: Diseases and ConditionsCreated: 8/14/2007 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 4/9/2014 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General)
Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General - April 9, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
