Stuttering Informative Speech

“My hands felt sweating, my heart was pounding faster than usual and I was very nervous to talk.” I’ve never been that nervous to speak then that day that I started stuttering at a gas station. I went to a gas station near Albizu University and I was getting ready to start stuttering but I got nervous all of a sudden. At that moment how people who stutter feels when they have to talk in public. I went inside the store and immediately looked at the cashier to see if he seemed like a nice person. I was nervous that he was going to be rude if I start stuttering which is probably a fear that people who stutter have, that people will treat them rudely for stuttering.

After being in the gas station for five minutes, I decided to buy muffins that had no price on them. I went to the front counter and asked the cashier “d-d-do you k-k-know how muuuuch this m-muffin cost?” I used repetition and

We have learned in class that individuals that stutter, do not stutter when they are alone, singing, speaking to animals. This confirms that stuttering is based on emotions and speech can be affected more when they are feeling stressed out and emotional. Individuals that stutter often feel frustrated because they don’t understand why they can’t stop stuttering and they feel embarrassed when they do start stuttering. They know what they want to say and how they will say it but when the words try to come out of their mouths, they start producing repetitions, and/or prolongations. They can also have secondary behaviors that physically are more noticeable to the listener. They can also feel pressure from the listeners because the listener might misunderstand what they are trying to say, they ask them to repeat, finish their sentences and they can also feel that the listener is becoming impatient and waiting for them to finish their