Stuttering Help

The University of Maine at Fort Kent welcomes motivational speaker Bill Deering to speak on campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Bill Deering is a speaker who Disses the Dis in Disabilities and has gone from stuttering on every other word and taking three minutes to say his first name to now confidently speaking to thousands.

Deering inspires, empowers, encourages others to breakthrough their personal challenges in life. He has overcome many challenges in his life including learning disabilities. He speaks candidly about his self-hatred of stuttering and the growth process of accepting himself. Many challenges in his life have been overcome including; stuttering, learning disabilities, bringing his grade point average in college from a very low .7 to a 3.7, and the choice to lose 65 pounds and maintaining it for 25 years now. He shares specifics of how it was all accomplished, while bringing lightness, playfulness and fun to the conversation of stuttering.

Bill's message is enlightening and full of wonderful anecdotes that people can relate to

Stuttering

Stuttering (alalia syllabaris), also known as stammering (alalia literalis or anarthria literalis), is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the stutterer is unable to produce sounds.[1] The term stuttering is most commonly associated with involuntary sound repetition, but it also encompasses the abnormal hesitation or pausing before speech, referred to by stutterers as blocks, and the prolongation of certain sounds, usually vowels and semivowels. For many stutters repetition is the primary problem and blocks and prolongations are learned mechanisms to mask repetition, as the fear of repetitive speaking in public is often the main cause of psychological unease. The term "stuttering", as popularly used, covers a wide spectrum of severity: it may encompass individuals with barely perceptible impediments, for whom the disorder is largely cosmetic, as well as others with extremely severe symptoms, for whom the problem can effectively prevent most oral communication. The impact of stuttering on a person's functioning and emotional state can be severe. Much of this goes unnoticed by the speaker, and may include fears of having to enunciate specific vowels or consonants, fears of being caught stuttering in social situations, self-imposed isolation, anxiety, stress, shame, or a feeling of "loss of control" during speech. Stuttering is sometimes popularly associated with anxiety but there is actually no such correlation (though as mentioned social anxiety may actually develop in individuals as a result of their stuttering). Despite popular perceptions to the contrary,[2] stuttering is not reflective of intelligence.
Stuttering is generally not a problem with the physical production of speech sounds or putting thoughts into words. Apart from their speech impediment, people who stutter may well be 'normal' in the clinical sense of the term. Anxiety, low self-esteem, nervousness, and stress therefore do not cause stuttering per se, although they are very often the result of living with a highly stigmatized disability and, in turn, exacerbate the problem in the manner of a positive feedback system (the proposed name for this is 'Stuttered Speech Syndrome'.[3][4])
The disorder is also variable, which means that in certain situations, such as talking on the telephone, the stuttering might be more severe or less, depending on the anxiety level connected with that activity. Although the exact etiology of stuttering is unknown, both genetics and neurophysiology are thought to contribute. There are many treatments and speech therapy techniques available that may help increase fluency in some stutterers to the point where an untrained ear cannot identify a problem; however, there is essentially no "cure" for the disorder at present, although many treatments are available.[citation needed]

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Stuttering Help

Getting stuttering help can be a very trying endeavor. it seems everyone has the answer in regards to stuttering help. Bill Deering suffered from a severe stuttering disability and overcame that disability and now is a successful motivational speaker for the stuttering and everyone else. Check out his website: www.BillDeering.info