Sens. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Andy Kim (D-N.J.) on Wednesday introduced legislation that would aim to improve identification ...
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 ...
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In high school, Susan Greenstein Prescott had a stutter and was embarrassed to speak in front of her class. Then her English ...
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 ...
I remember the first time I stuttered: Mrs Fitzpatrick's English class, 40 years ago. I was eight, sitting in a row of wooden desks, waiting to read aloud (how those two words still inspire panic) ...
I was once told that I buffer like a YouTube video. Typically, the sentiment is coupled with impatient eyes, or foot-tapping like merciless knocks on the floor. Tap! Tap! Tap!—almost like cracking an ...