The Did I Stutter Project was created to provide an alternative way of thinking about speech and communication disabilities. Together we seek to empower stuttering voices everywhere, and to hear the diversity of sounds present in the human voice.
Did I Stutter is not a self-help group per se. Rather, we seek to create a space for community, art, and discussion where stutters and other speech dysfluencies can be rethought in affirming ways. In the short-term, we will engage in conversations with other speech-disabled individuals to question our tendency to loath our stutters. We will work actively to challenge assumptions about speech-disability and work to open a conversation about how much of the anxiety related to dysfluency is produced by oppressive social structures and values. Long term plans include dysfluency-positive social media, internet communities, multi-person stuttering showcases, dysfluent readings of historical dialogues, poems, and speeches, as well as stuttering poetry and performance art, all created with the goal of challenging normalcy as it is assumed in speech and speech pathology.
Readers, dysfluent or ally, are encouraged to join our Facebook, Twitter, or tumblr community, to exchange ideas in the forum, to submit potential blog posts, to record their stutters or speech dysfluencies with pride, and to begin a conversation about speech discrimination.
Did I Stutter is not a self-help group per se. Rather, we seek to create a space for community, art, and discussion where stutters and other speech dysfluencies can be rethought in affirming ways. In the short-term, we will engage in conversations with other speech-disabled individuals to question our tendency to loath our stutters. We will work actively to challenge assumptions about speech-disability and work to open a conversation about how much of the anxiety related to dysfluency is produced by oppressive social structures and values. Long term plans include dysfluency-positive social media, internet communities, multi-person stuttering showcases, dysfluent readings of historical dialogues, poems, and speeches, as well as stuttering poetry and performance art, all created with the goal of challenging normalcy as it is assumed in speech and speech pathology.
Readers, dysfluent or ally, are encouraged to join our Facebook, Twitter, or tumblr community, to exchange ideas in the forum, to submit potential blog posts, to record their stutters or speech dysfluencies with pride, and to begin a conversation about speech discrimination.
