Speech disfluencies are mysterious. They are defined as breaks or disruptions that occur in the flow of speech.
For over 10 years, I was the midday host at 黑料新闻 Radio, telling you the weather, the time, what show was coming up next 鈥� And at the top of every hour, the call letters.
Our listeners had opinions - lots of opinions - about the way I said the letter 鈥淲鈥�, which I had to say dozens of times a day. Most of the opinions came in the form of praise, but now and then an email would come through from someone saying that they had to turn the radio off every time I came on. That I was saying 鈥淲鈥� wrong.
This intense positive and negative feedback, repeated for years, and caused anxiety and, after time, I was diagnosed with a speech disfluency.
This hour, you鈥檒l hear audio from my 2013 sessions at the .
And we鈥檒l hear from people who struggle with the most common speech disfluency: stuttering. It affects more than 70 million people in the world 鈥� about 5% of children go through a period of stuttering. It hasn鈥檛 stopped some people from expressing themselves in creative ways.
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- is a Speech-Language Pathologist who is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo. She is also a
- Alida Engel has been a Speech and Language Pathologist for over 50 years. She runs in New Haven
- Ari Cobb is an 8 year-old New Haven resident who is working with Alida Engel on his stutter
- finished second on with his Golden Buzzer performance. Since then, he has been seen on Conan, Maron, and on his worldwide tours
- is a PhD candidate at Yale, who is a self-described "Proud Stutterer"
Catie Talarski contributed to this show.
