Since I was a child I have been plagued with a speech impediment known as a stutter. A stutter is when you repeat what you are trying to say whether it be the first sound of a word, or the entire word itself. For some reason or another I have never been able to rid myself of this no matter how many therapy sessions I attended, or how many times I cursed myself out for it. To those of us who stutter it’s a social inhibitor, and something that never ceases to make a stutter stay on edge. With this project I hope to stutter as little as possible and rid myself of the fear associated with stuttering.
The No Stuttering Project or NSP for short is a experiment that I put together to help myself and fellow stutterers not stutter. Over the various years of speech therapy I have learned a couple techniques that work and some that don’t. I want to take this moment to go ahead and state that your stutter will never disappear but it will get better. To add to this, one technique to aid your stutter is to stutter slightly at the beginning of your first word and then continue with sentence. Now in order for me to hold this project I need to do a couple things like keep track as to how many times I stutter each day, and there has to be ground rules. So without further delay the rules.

1. Stutter as little as possible.
2. Take as long as I need to in order to get my message across.
3. Feel no guilt / humiliation.
4. Maintain a monotone voice.
5. If I stutter revert to a neutral mouth position.
6. If I stutter I need to take a deep breath.

That’s all for the rules. Several of my fraters and some men pledging Tau Kappa Epsilon see me on a daily basis so I’m asking for their help to hold me accountable to each, and every single rule listed above. I implore anyone who stutters to also follow the same rules and report your progress on here as well.
Once I’m able to get my batteries for my camera I plan to make videos on a daily basis to update my progress. Wish me luck, my thirty days start now.

I do ask that if anyone would like to talk to me about this project, or would just like to talk I’m always available at 305.788.2060.