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=My Final Projectmedia type="custom" key="8137022"= My video in my Fina Project media type="custom" key="8139750" = = =**Project 1**= Essential Question: Can Stuttering hold people back from achieving their goals? Thesis: The thing that is fact is that stuttering negatively affects people at work, school and socially. Form: A Fact Sheet(Word Document)

Project 1

Since the beginning of time people have had problems with speech. The problem is no one ever knew what to do with the individuals that had speech issues. In many cases they were excluded or set apart from the masses. They were told that they were less intelligent or slow. However both of these conclusions are far from the truth. Although exact reasons for the cause of stuttering are unknown, however there are a few theories. The first theory is that stuttering is a learned behavior and that most average children occasionally stutter. The second theory behind stuttering is that it is a psychological problem; that stuttering is an underlying problem that can be treated with psychotherapy. This theory means that the issue of stuttering can be cured through regular session with a psychotherapist. The other theory behind stuttering is that it is natural, that stuttering is caused by the neurological difference between those who stutter and one who do not. Sadly, the truth behind stuttering is still unknown to man. The thing that is fact is the effect of stuttering on the people; the truth that s tuttering can and will hold people back from success just like any other disability. Rick Carney is a middle age man who had problems with stuttering all his life he tried meditation, self hypnosis, various diets, medicines, and visualization exercises. He made appointments with doctors and tried speech therapy numerous times but nothing seems to be affective. Carney is at a point where he thinks that there is no hope for him to speak normal and is very distressed. Carney even began a spiral into depression and it started to affect not only his life, also his family’s life his kids were sad and his wife was very disheartened by her husband not being able to find the answers that he so desperately needed. But then he found his answer it was Propanolol it is used to reduce this anxiety caused by adrenaline along with Paxil and Busparone. After a while Carney stop taking Paxil because he noticed that it was not effective for him. He claims that Busparone really helped him relieve his anxiety in addition to the propanolol that is a beta blocker that lowers the heart rate in times when an ordinary person’s not on the drug heart rate would rise. As you can see even as a middle age man he never gave up hope and finally found a cure that worked for him. Without this medication for Rick Carney would have been more focused on trying to speak properly then on other important work related projects. There is a book called Coping with Stuttering. This book was written by Melanie Apel she is part of the NSA (National Stuttering Association). The NSA is a very well know organization that is devoted to helping people deal with stuttering. This novel goes into depth about how children who stutter tend to shy away from many things that other children normally are involved with. One place where this happens often is school. The teacher may ask a student who stutters to read or ask them a question in class. If in the students response he stutters or stumbles over his words he will be quickly persecuted and laughed by his fellow classmates. This can cause a child to not want to speak during class causing him to be insecure and not have faith in himself. Another example is when children are outside of school and a kid begins to stutter. Some is always there to make fun of him or pick at his speech impediment. This constant picking and making fun causes the child to either not speak when he is hangout with that group of friends. Another thing he may do is change his group of friends. This cycle will continue until he finds a group of friends that understand him and accept him. In that group he will remain because of his horrible past experience he is scared to fight for what he wants and is scarred by his past. He goes through life not feeling deserving of anything because he has such a severe speech impediment. These examples may seem like a stretch or unbelievable however these things happen every day with it is in the classroom, at the mall or on the street people are discriminated because of their speech. Stuttering is not only someone who does not speak “normal”. It is much greater, stuttering can seriously change the lives of people who stutter but also family and friends. It does not matter your stance on the origin stuttering. Nor does it matter your thoughts on the solution. However it is very vital that people understand the severity of the issue and not just treat it as a trivial matter. Stuttering affects more than 3 million Americans. Also men are three times more likely to stutter than woman. This is a growing number in many respects. This is why more research and an attention should be on helping these people with this speech disorder. Because every second wasted is another second that someone is getting bullied or that much closer to forgetting their dreams. Work Cited 1. Apel, Melanie Ann. //Coping with Stuttering//. New York: The Rsen Publishing Group, Inc., 2000. Print. 2. Carney, Rick. "The Hope Document." Letter. //thevoiceinstitute//. Ed. Thevoiceinstitute. N.p., 2003. Web. 8 Oct. 2010.
 * 1) //National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Home Page//. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. .

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