I just defended my master thesis successfully. But the process of preparing the presentation for me was not so simple. It took one day for me to prepare the presentation and more than one week for ...

I should write this first, since it’s what people notice first: I stutter when I talk. I involuntarily extend certain letters or sounds and, more conspicuously, experience total “blocks,” wherein my ...

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I am Ken Steinhardt, a severe stutterer. I block up on feared words and in feared situations. When I speak, first I feel fear. Then I stutter. Then I feel shame about my stutter. I stutter more with ...

I sat on the bathroom floor, dizzy and nauseated, picturing the stage where I would give a reading the next day. Months ago, in a more optimistic moment, I had agreed to perform in a public reading ...

I’m a person who stutters. I’m also a cantor in the Conservative movement. My Jewish and stuttering identities feel increasingly intertwined, as both are related to the experience of time. As a person ...

As his peers prepared for another school year, then 7-year-old Cameron Coppen stood in front of his first grade class, prepared to address them. "I'm sure you have noticed that sometimes I get stuck ...

Michael Thompson is a career strategist who works with business professionals and entrepreneurs to open more doors and receive greater satisfaction from their work. In childhood, Thompson struggled ...