Flyer promotes International Stutterng Awareness Day

October in general and Oct. 22 in particular are dedicated to helping people understand disfluency, or stuttering. The International Stuttering Awareness Day people have a catchphrase this year. It is “People Who Stutter Have The Unique Opportunity To Teach The World To Listen.”

This resonated with the Michigan State University School of Journalism’s Bias Busters class. It is creating “100 Questions and Answers About Stuttering: A Listener’s Gude.” Early in our work, we were presented with the idea that maybe the problem is not disfluency, but the way others pay more attention to the way people voice their messages rather than the messages.  That feeling led to our subtitle and one of our first chapters. We are just starting now to answer those 100 questions. We will update progress on the guide on this site.