Bikash Thakur's Blog

Every year International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD) is marked on October 22. It is a day when people who stutter all over the world participate in events and activities that raise awareness about stuttering and educate the non-stuttering public and raise awareness of an often difference. The awareness day is an alliance between speech-language professionals and consumers. The awareness day is designed to highlight the effect that stuttering has on the lives of individuals. The colour of the day is sea-green. People who stammer are encouraged to adorn themselves with the colour sea green to integrate the traditional ‘peace’ of the colour blue and ‘liberation’ of the colour green.    Photo: British Stammering Association In my personal experience of having a stammer tells me everything about attitudes nationwide, a day like this is still necessary. Even though few people are consciously prejudiced against stammerers even fewer know about what it is...

Real Cause of Stuttering Stuttering can be considered as an iceberg and the speech disorder only represents the tip of the iceberg. You are neither a sick person nor there is anything wrong on your tongue. Your stuttering is not like a broken bone. If the bone is broken, it remains broken all 24 hours and causes continuous pain. The fracture does not come in front of some people and goes away in some other situations in the same day. If your stuttering was because of a tongue defect then like the broken it would too happen with the same intensity everyday everywhere. But your stuttering is not because of a defective tongue as it comes and goes depending upon who you are talking to. It’s only a fear of being judged or ridiculed which causes stuttering.  Dr. Edward Conture, professor of speech pathology at Syracuse University, New York, talks about what causes stuttering “things that causes stuttering may be, and probably are, quite different from the things that keep i...