Today is the day of the oral report. Everyone in class has already made their presentation, so I no longer have an excuse for not sharing my material. I slowly raise my hand after the teacher asks if anyone else needs to do the oral. As I scoot the chair back to stand up, my ears begin to turn red hot. My uneasiness only gets worse when I sluggishly walk down the aisle towards the awaiting podium and start sweating on my hands and forehead. As I look up from the podium, I am startled by the forty pairs of unwavering eyes glaring at me, awaiting to be engrossed by my brilliance.
I find myself having difficulty breathing, almost as if I have forgotten how to. I wipe the sweat off my brow, grab my index cards tightly, and open my mouth to speak. But the words just will not come out as I hit a stuttering block. Those same forty pairs of eyes are gazing at me in wonderment. I avoid their scowls by looking down at my index cards, held by my excessively sweaty hands. The class is remarkably silent, waiting for me to continue. I hastily glance upwards to discover forty increasingly impatient people. Nervously, I attempt to speak again, but again I block. I make a stronger effort to try to spit the words out, only to stutter.
While many are able to relate to the distress involved in public speaking, issues faced by a person who stutters are unique. Anxiety of a stuttering block extends beyond the typical public speaking into the everyday world of phone conversations and ordering fast food. The anxiety I get during either of the two situations is tremendous. For example, if I am preparing to place a phone call or am waiting in line to order fast food, anxiety builds as I wonder whether I will stutter. This affects my decision-ma...
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...e my fear of speaking, and, in addition, I became more social and outgoing.
Ever since I took journalism, I have realized I do not have to hide the fact that I have a speech impediment. Contrarily, I have learned that I feel more comfortable with my audience, especially in a classroom situation, if I let the cat out of the bag before I spoke. By advertising my stuttering, I no longer feel as if I am running away or trying to hide my problems, and I find that my listeners tend to be more sympathetic to my disability.
I have learned that self-acceptance has pushed me a long way in my struggle to discover who I am. No one is perfect, and everyone must realize their short-comings. But these must not get in the way of your goals in life. You must confront these obstacles head-on, learn to accept them, and to build from your broadened understanding of yourself.
In the film, Transcending Stuttering: The Inside Story, produced by Schneider Speech, the viewer was brought into the lives of seven individuals with a stutter. These individuals described their experiences with stuttering and how they have transcended the obstacles they have been faced with throughout their lives. The viewer was also given the opportunity to understand the powerful reality of both the low and high points that can be accompanied by stuttering.
This coursework focuses on how each character contributes to the suicide of a poor girl Eva Smith/Daisy Renton.
An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley In the introduction of Act One, we are given a few brief details about
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Davis, S., Shisca, D., & Howell, P. (2007). Anxiety in speakers who persist and recover from stuttering. Journal of Communication Disorders, 40, 398-417.
Throughout this research it will go over stuttering (which was operationally defined as any hesitation, stoppage, repetition, or prolongation in the rhythmic flow of vocal behavior ( Azrin; Flanagan; Goldiamond; 2006) in great detail. Stuttering has often been considered an emotional blocking; it can, however, be regarded as a unit of verbal behavior; that is, breaks, pauses, repetitions, and other nonfluencies can be considered operant responses, having in common with other operant the characteristic of being controllable by ensuing consequences (Azrin;Flanagan; Goldiamond; 2006). The ways that stuttering comes about, the strategies and treatments that makes stuttering successful, the positives and negatives of stuttering, stats, historical context and definitions. Stuttering not only affects the stutterer’s speech but also the outcome on one’s social life and how successful they become according to how their stuttering is handled. There are multiple ways of handling stutterers and ways to implement strategies and treatments to help them become more successful in school and their social life. Due to stuttering beginning at an early age it is very important for and educator and parents to implement strategies to help a stutterer become comfortable in academic and social environment. Without the involvement of parents and teachers there will be a lack of engagement from the stutterer.
Stuttering is a neurological disorder of communication, from which the normal flow of speech is disrupted by repetitions (neu-neu-neuro), prolongations (biiiii-ol-ooogy), or abnormal stoppages (no sound) of sounds and syllables. Rapid eye blinking, tremors of the lips and/or jaw, or other struggle behaviors of the face or upper body may accompany speech disruptions ((3)). Why does stuttering worsen in situations that involve speaking before a group of people or talking on the phone, whereas fluency of speech improves in situations such as whispering, acting, talking to pets, speaking alone, or singing ((1))? In ancient times, physicians believed that the stutterer's tongue was either too long or too short, too wet or too dry. Therefore, practitioners from the mid-1800s tried surgical remedies such as drilling holes into the skull or cutting pieces of the tongue out to eliminate stuttering ((1) ).
In the late 1400’s the House of York fought the House of Lancaster for the English crown. Because Lancaster’s heraldic badge
Wars of the Roses started in England in the 1400s that was a series of wars (Griffiths 1). Started with attacks and rebellions from 1455 to 1487, it has three different stages; the first stage, from 1455 to 1464 started as a rivalry, the second stage from 1469 to 1471 was a more factional war, rather than a rivalry, and the last stage from 1483 to 1487 was an outright dynastic war (Phillips 1). Involving the House of York and Lancaster, York had the white rose emblem and Lancaster had the red rose emblem. Due to the weakness of English forces and government, (Griffiths 1) assassination attempts against Henry IV, war broke out between Wales and Scotland and lasted for two conflicting years (Lunt 260).
These occasional, brief civil wars in England commenced in the 1450s with rebellions led by Richard, Duke of York, who had been excluded from power at the court by Henry Vi of the house of Lancaster.From 1461-1471 the wars escalated into struggles for the throne
The wars of the Roses resulted from social and financial troubles that followed the Hundred Years War. Combined with the mental infirmity and weak rule of Henry the fifth, which revived interest in the alternative claim to the throne of Richard, Duke of York (B). The wars were fought between the House of Lancaster and York for the English throne. The wars were named many years afterward, from the supposed badges of the contending parties, the white rose of the York and the red rose of Lancaster (D). In 1453, December. Henry the fifth had his first bout with mental illness. In 1454 around April was the start of York’s first protectorate. February was the end of York’s first protectorate (A).
According to a 2001 Gallup poll, “more than 40% of Americans fear public speaking than death”, I was shocked to learn this statistics that I was not the only one. As I was pondering about what to write on my essay for my favorite school, I thought about my own childhood experience.