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THREAD. Ok, this must be said. To everyone who is down on Joe Biden for sounding, slow, old, confused last night -- let's put things in perspective. Biden has been managing his fluency disorder (also called stuttering) his whole life. #WeSpeechies #SLPeeps #StutteringAwareness
Stuttering is exacerbated by stress, and Trump knows this. He was trying to fluster Biden, to make him stutter so that he sounds "dumb." Despite the circumstances, Biden did a REMARKABLE job managing the stress and using the exact strategies we as SLPs often teach.
Many of these strategies, to the naive person, may make him sound slow or confused. For example: 1) Speak slowly, and especially ease into the first word -- to the naive person this can make you sound slow, but in fact it's strategic.
I know I’m late to the party and I’m just hearing this speech now, but listening to Brayden made me tear up. Stuttering has affected me my whole life, and I’m thrilled that he’s working to not let it hold him back.
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I remember being in grade 2 and hoping that I would grow out of my stutter. I remember always speaking as quickly as I could whenever I could to get out as many words as possible to make up for lost time.
I remember going to the speech pathologist in junior high and not even focusing on my stuttering, but instead doing my best to prove that I was smart. I never wanted people to judge me negatively for it so I felt like I always had to prove myself to others.
