A good story is a good story, whether it be text, video or audio. Even our brains know this to be true (more on that here!).
First dates, butterflies and wondering when your crush will text you back are enough to make anyone’s head spin. But for someone who stutters, there’s an added layer of personal anxiety.
From the electrical telegraph, to the rotary dial phone, and now the cellphone, humans have always had a longing and desire to innovate and communicate. But, who would have thought that this technological advancement would be such a terror to a segment of the population?
Graduation season is just around the corner and while graduating is a time of great enjoyment, accomplishment and celebration, it also marks a time a great change. This is the time when recent grads will put down their books, join the workforce and of course start paying back those student loans!
One woman who stutters has taken the internet by storm after she was discriminated against and detained at an airport. Why was she detained? Because she stuttered on the words “Costa Rica”.
We recently had someone on Twitter ask us if an app could be a replacement for a Speech Easy device. Here's what our resident Speech-Language Pathologist (and fellow stutterer) Casey Kennedy had to say.