Growing Up With Stuttering Sparknotes

To begin with, Living With Stuttering is an excellent book for those who want to know more about stuttering and especially understanding how those with stuttering have coped with it throughout their lives. One particular story that stood out is the story written by Michael Sugarman. He was only twenty-one years old when finally admitted to himself that he stuttered. He allowed stuttering to represent him as a person and he felt powerless, ashamed, and guilty for stuttering. It was not until after he went to speech therapy, he began to gain self-confidence, and did not allow his stuttering too overcome him. Next, the story written by Michael Sugarman may impact a reader due to the experiences he had as a child. He explained how he avoided as many verbal conversations as he could. In addition, he often used gestures so that he did not have to talk unless it was absolutely necessary. This shows readers that sometimes you never really know what a person is actually going through mentally and that sometimes they just need the extra encouragement.

A. Lewis. Readers will learn that Fred had been stuttering since he was five years old, but it was not until he eight years old that people started to notice that he spoke differently from others. Growing up with stuttering had made Fred dread school. College was one of his hardest times pertaining to stuttering. He attending speech therapy in college but it did not seem to work. Eight years later, he went to speech therapy again, which consisted of a combined approach of fluency shaping and breathing exercises. He only saw a little progress, so he went to a different speech therapist. This was a high point for Fred because his therapist Joseph Sheehan developed an Avoidance Reduction Approach. Fred began to see an increase in