Some ways I have been teased about my speech
How I feel when I get teased about my speech
What I do or say when I get teased about my speech

Maybe you've been teased by being called a name. Maybe someone has even said, "You talk like Porky Pig!" Warner Brothers and Porky Pig have a poster for you to help show that there is nothing wrong with being different. You can even copy this "Top of the Tune Squad" Everyone's Unique and Th-th-that's Good Folks! poster, free, if you want to.

Kids, have your mom or dad or speech clinician help you find a key pal who is also working on speech.

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Tammy Bryant-McMillin is a speech therapist. She has put online a fun activity: Stuttering Awareness Game

You Are In Control, a game for children who stutter, their families, and friends.

John Ahlbach is a teacher. He has written a Stuttering Presentation Guide if you want to help your classmates and others learn more about stuttering. Michelle and Judy have made some pictures that can also help.

Rudi and the Little Stuttering Monster a play written by Marianne Engleken. One idea is to make puppets to produce the play!

Three Baby Bunny Rabbits - a short story by John Karpinski.

Plays about stuttering
• A Play about Stuttering by Valerie
  
• A Play about Stuttering by Allison
  
Poems about stuttering
• Getting Stuck - a poem by Max J., age 10
• Carl's Feelings: A Poem About Stuttering
• It's Me - a poem by David B., grade 6
• Stuttering Poem by A.P., age 12
  
• Teasing Hurts by Marvin, age 9
• Rapping about Stuttering
  
• So What? by Josh H., grade 6
  
• Stuttering makes me feel. . . by Joshua, age 7
Stories about Stuttering
• The Adventures of Stutter Girl by Lester L. - age 11
• When I Stutter - a story by Blake, age 8.
• The Giant Who Stuttered - by Thomas D., age 12.
• Brita Goes to Amerika by Rebecca, age 8
• The Stuttering Chimp by Alex, age 9
  
• The Stuttering Storm Cloud by Alex, age 9
  
Information about Stuttering
• My Stuttering Life and Stuttering Information by Manveet, 11 year old girl
• The First Time - by Brandon, age 11.
• My Most Embarrassing Moment by Michael, age 12.
• Stuttering - by Tanya, age 12
• My Story of Speech by Lisa C. - age 11.
• My Stuttering Problem by Pauline, grade 7
Projects, assignments and presentations about stuttering
• My Stuttering Web Page - by John W., 4th grade. John used this information for a presentation about stuttering for his class.
• A Presentation for my Class by Cate, age 10
Stuttering Acrostics
• A Stutter Acrostic by Chase Kustra, age 9
• Stutter by Kelly
YouTube presentations about stuttering
• Stuttering - Teasing - Bullying a 9 minute video presentation by Sian, age 6
• Three minute Presentation by Nate on YouTube (skip the ad first)
Drawing about stuttering
• Lou Heite is a graphic artist. Her job is designing signs, logos, advertisements, and even web pages. She drew a picture called Stutter on her computer. Maybe you'd like to be a graphic artist some day, too. It is a fun job. Why not try to draw your own picture of stuttering on your computer?
• Here is a big Art Gallery of Stuttering with drawings about stuttering by lots of kids and teens who stutter.
• Check the Stuttering Foundation website where kids have also sent drawings (and letters).

• REACHING OUT was a newsletter from FRIENDS. Past issues are still available.
• Hard Talking Made Easy, an article by Noelle, age 10. This article she wrote for her school, became part of an article about Noelle in her local newspaper.

It is interesting to see what stuttering is called in different countries. If you say the words out loud, you will hear that many of them almost sound like stuttering.

It would be interesting to know what kids in other countries think about stuttering and what speech therapy is like in other countries.

United States by Tim B.
Spain by Pedro
Greece by Damian

Telling My Story in Three Words - short video about a fun activity created by Nina Reeves

Stuttering: For Kids, By Kids - is a really nice video produced by the Stuttering Foundation of America. You can watch it for free online.

There are some good movies that show people who stutter in positive roles. These are rated PG, so ask your mom or dad to watch them with you.

• "Paulie" (1998) is a movie about a little girl who stutters and her friend a parrot who cannot fly.
• A Family Thing is a movie about a Black police officer who stutters (played by James Earl Jones) and his half-brother (played by Robert Duval.
• The Right Stuff - a movie about the "space race" has several scenes portraying a woman who stutters, Annie Glenn, the wife of John Glenn.

The next movie was rated R for a "bad word" but it is still an excellent movie about a man who stuttered. Watch it with mom or dad.

• The King's Speech is a movie about the King of England during World War II. It won several big awards!

There are many books that have children who stutter in them. You might find some ideas for books to read here

There are some stories/books on the Internet about stuttering that you might like to read!

• Changing the Words Around by Alan Badmington (Wales, UK) and illustrated by Christine Badgett-Richards (England, UK
• Everyone's Different by Alan Badmington (Wales, UK)
• The Cracked Jar
• The Can't Be Seen Who Couldn't Squawk by Dale Williams
• Tarby Rockets to Slower Speech by Craig Coleman and Mary Weidner
• Sometimes I Just Stutter by Eelco de Geus
• Jeremy and the Hippo: A Boy's Struggle with Stuttering by Gail Wilson Lew, and several other books too.
• Shapiro, David, A Way Through the Forest: One Boy's Story With a Happy Ending (1995)
• Boo; Goodnight to Halloween by Tracy Harrison
• Funny Bunny's Better Ideas, a 4-page "story" with many suggestions for children who stutter. This story first appeared in STAFF, March 1992 (a newsletter from Aaron's Associates). It is reprinted here for non-commercial use only with the permission of the editor, Janice Westbrook.
• Finding Little Bear by Amanda Pitchford, "A children's fairy-tale about a little girl who overcomes her stutter when she gets lost in the woods."
• Trouble at Recess - free download of a children's book from the Stuttering Foundation.
• Izabela: The Story of the Princess Who Stuttered (in Slovenian, with English translation)

Some of the stories/books have pictures to color or activities to do

• My Very Own: I can Do It Storybook! Starring Me by Julie Raynor from the Stuttering Foundation - a 10 page PDF with opportunity to fill in with pictures of a child learning to walk, drink from a cup, turn on the lights, swim, talk, etc. The book concludes "there are so many things to learn to do! And just remember one thing. If something is hard or you need help, don't worry about it. Just keep on trying and pretty soon you will get it!!"
• Our First Talk About Talking is a six page booklet, with pictures children can color.
• Rufus Talks and Talks a children's story/coloring book by Nina A. Reardon, MS CCC-SLP and illustrated by Brit W. Kohls can be downloaded as a PDF file.
• Angel Loves to Talk, by Nina Reardon, illustrated by Brit W. Kohls. A story/coloring book in PDF file.
• More Friends for Jackson by Nina Reardon, illustrated by Brit W. Kohls. A story/coloring book in PDF format.

Hints, suggestions, ideas, and stuff like that

A Message to Children Who Stutter

Letters To My Daughter are written by a father who stutters, for his 10-year-old daughter who also stutters. They will be about a variety of topics, including:

• Why kids make fun of other kids
• What is confidence?
• Don't let stuttering hold you back
• How you react to how others react
• Different types of treatments/therapies
• Where you "fit"
• "Our World"

• Carl N., almost 12
• James, 9
• Jonathan 9