Gareth WalkomMy name's Gareth, I stutter, and I'm the Founder of withVR.
Have you ever found it difficult to practice for a real-life speaking situation?
April is Poetry Month! Kim Block — advocate, writer and PWS — lives in BC with her husband and two children.
I am a person who stutters. Stuttering comes in many shapes and forms — not only in the ways in which people stutter, but the kind of people who stutter are very diverse.
Greg O'Grady (right) and the late Dr. Bob KrollMany of you are aware of my personal vision for a treatment centre for individuals with dysfluency communication challenges to be established in Newfoundland and Labrador.
For much of my life, I considered having a stutter to being a burden. It was exhausting, frustrating, and affected my quality of life.
In 1936, a statuesque 20-year-old named Mary Dowell was hired as a dancing girl for an extravagant Texas Centennial celebration in her home town of Fort Worth. Until then she had been, in her own words, “looked upon as a sort of freak” due to her height and pronounced stutter. “When I walked down the street people would look at me and grin, like I was the town idiot. I was the unhappiest girl in Texas.”