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About 1% of the adult U.S. population experiences the confounding phenomenon of stuttering, a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted.<\/p>\n
People with the condition often feel isolated from those who speak fluidly. Sometimes, they face ridicule and marginalization. Because of stutterers\u2019 struggles to conform to the regular flow of conversation, the condition entrenches itself deep within their psyches.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor just about everyone I know who stutters, at some point in their lives stuttering has been very consuming,\u201d said Charley Adams, a speech pathologist and assistant professor at the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health. \u201cMany people who stutter struggle enough that, sometimes, they feel like it defines them.\u201d<\/p>\n
This fixation on stuttering leads many with the problem to choose college majors and seek jobs related to stuttering \u2013 rather than pursuing their passions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich is really unfortunate,\u201d said Adams. \u201cBecause our goal, our hope, would be for people who stutter to do exactly what they would like to do \u2013 whether they stutter or not.\u201d<\/p>\n
In pursuit of that goal, Adams and Aisha Haynes, assistant director of the university’s Center for Teaching Excellence, led a workshop on Oct. 21 for educators, students, stutterers and their friends about methods to raise awareness and heighten empathy for those who stutter. Attendees tried to write while partners sporadically pushed their writing hands \u2013 giving participants a taste of what it\u2019s like to try to break through a stutter.<\/p>\n
For Haynes, the workshop was personal. She developed a stutter while she was in high school, but she hid it for several years. After she took a job at the Darla Moore School of Business, several years later, her stutter surfaced \u2013 and a colleague responded with mockery.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the first time, then \u2013 I think I was about 24 years old \u2013 that anyone ever knew that I stuttered besides myself,\u201d said Haynes. \u201cAnd I felt so angry, and so down, and so hopeless.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emotions like these are common for people who stutter \u2013 leading many stutterers to hide the condition. Some stutterers become adept at concealing their speech struggles in a condition known as covert stuttering. However, covert stuttering can greatly impact a personality.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you stutter, and you\u2019re good enough to hide it completely from people, you\u2019re having to work very hard,\u201d said Adams. \u201cYou\u2019re probably not participating in a lot of things that you\u2019d like to participate in \u2013 and when you are in those speaking situations, you\u2019re probably saying a lot less than you could say or, especially, would like to say.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rather than avoiding encounters and hiding her stutter, Haynes achieved great success after she embraced her stutter. \u00a0She became involved with the National Stuttering Association, a nonprofit advocacy group that works to destigmatize stuttering. She has now lectured as a keynote speaker six times and delivers presentations for local and national congregations.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s still a struggle, day in and day out, but I know that together with my National Stuttering Association friends, we are strong,\u201d Haynes said.<\/p>\n
Haynes and Adams hope that the CTE workshop can help instill that strength in others struggling to overcome their insecurities and others\u2019 derision.<\/p>\n
The CTE will host a screening and discussion panel about stuttering at USC\u2019s Russell House Theatre on Oct. 24\u00a0at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
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