International Stuttering Awareness Day is on October 22. This is a way to bring attention to this speech disorder. International Stuttering Awareness Day is mostly meant to the following:
Change the way people think about people who stutter and stop discriminating against them.
Help people who stutter reach their goals and dreams by boosting their self-esteem and giving them more chances.
Build a community where researchers, people who stutter, clinicians, and parents of children who stutter can share ideas and get to know each other better.
Around the world, more than 70 million people stutter. This means that they repeat syllables, sounds, or words when they talk. People who stutter also stretch out sounds or stop talking when they don't want to. They know what they want to say, but they can't say it in a natural way. Most kids with this disorder are between the ages of 2 and 6. This is when they show how good they are with language.
Stuttering is mostly caused by genes, how a child grows and develops, how the brain works, and how the family works. Many people think that stuttering is caused by emotional trauma or mental health problems. There is no proof that this is true. The good news is that stuttering is easy to treat if it is caught early. Speech therapy is one of the best ways to help people who stutter.
People who stutter might be glad to know that they are not alone. People who are well-known have even been known to stutter. Some of them are James Earl Jones, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, and King George VI. It is also thought that Moses, the person in the Bible who gave the 10 Commandments, had a stutter. Even though they all had a problem with their speech, they all went on to have successful lives.
HOW TO CELEBRATE #InternationalStutteringAwarenessDay
International Stuttering Awareness Day is celebrated by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), the Stuttering Foundation, the International Stuttering Association, and the National Stuttering Association.
As part of this celebration around the world, there will be an online conference for speech-language pathologists and their clients. There will also be public events to raise awareness, educational activities, and a media campaign.
This annual event is a great time to show support and encouragement to someone who stutters or has a speech problem. Learn more about stuttering. Watch the movie "The King's Speech." It's based on a true story about King George VI. Raise your voice and tell your story if you stutter or know someone who does. People who make fun of or pick on people who stutter should always be told to stop.
International Stuttering Awareness Day History: International Stuttering Awareness Day started in 1995 at a conference in Sweden for the International Stuttering Association (ISA). International Stuttering Awareness Day was on the wish list of the ISA. At an International Fluency Conference in California in 1997, a day was set aside for professionals to learn from people who stutter. Michael Sugarman, who helped start the National Stuttering Project and spoke at the closing ceremony, said that there should be an international day to raise awareness about stuttering. International Stuttering Awareness Day was started by the European League of Stuttering Associations, the International Fluency Association, and the International Stuttering Association in 1998.
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