What we did today April 26th, 2012

Today we played Kerplunk and me and Victor tied. We worked on our speech skills- cancellations and pullouts.  And then we responded to blog comments.  I feel like I'm improving with my speech.

Posted by Jonathan

Our letters to famous people who stutter

March 8, 2012

Today we worked on letters to Famous People Who Stutter.  We are writing the famous football player Darren Sproles and the famous actor James Earl Jones (Darth Vader).  We planned for our letters last week and wrote rough drafts this week.  Our letters have four parts: 1- a little bit about ourselves, 2- why we are writing, 3- questions we have for the famous person about stuttering, 4- thanking them for their time.  We will send our letters to Mr. Sproles and Mr. Jones after we proof read and write a final copy next week.

Posted by: Ms. Leggette, Victor, and Jonathan

What we did today- 3/1/2012

Today we were writing a letter to famous person who stutters.  I chose Darren Sproles because he stutters and he is a famous football player for the New Orleans Saints.  Jonathan chose James Earl Jones because he play Darth Vader in Starwars.  We planned for our letter: talking about ourselves, why we are writing, asking a question about stuttering, and thanking them.

I felt awesome and next we will write our rough draft.

Posted by Victor

What Casper did today 2-23-12

today we rated our stuttering for the week, and then we did the speech ladder, and Jonathan got mystery motivator.  And Jonathan wants to go to the swing.  For the speech ladder my easy speaking situation is phone call, and my hard speaking situation is brother/sister.  For Jonathan his easy situation was his  best friends, and his hard situation was a presentation. I wrote a disclosure line of "please do not judge me, becuase I stutter."

Victor

What we did today 2/9/12

Today we got observed by our principal and we played a slap it game to work on learning about stuttering and techniques. We did a rate your stuttering and my rating was 3. Victor's was 2. Then we got our custom Gears of War/Soccer/Football speech game homework and I'm going to work on my easy onsets.  Victor is going to work on pullouts.  I feel marvelous about the group today because it was fun.  And Casper had fun too.  Casper is a ghost that plays with our minds around the speech room.

Posted by Jonathan

January 19th- what we did today

Today recorderd ourselves and identified our stuttering and practiced duets (those are pullouts and cancellation). I felt good because it was fun. By victor

What we did today- January 12th, 2012

Today we practiced our triads which is when you fake stutter on each word, use easy speech to say it next, and then say the word using more "normal" sounding easy speech.  We played Jenga and I won the championship. Victor got mystery motivator which is a behavior reward system.  It means that Victor gets to pick a game to play for 5 minutes without working on stuttering therapy. I felt like saying this word shabalabadingdong.

Posted by Jonathan

This is a picture of the triads sheet we worked on.

The game we played last week to work on desensitizing ourselves to stuttering

January 5th, 2012

We filled out a worksheet called "What's true for you?" and then after we played a game.  We were talking about do people laugh at you because of your stuttering?  Then we were talking about scary movies while working on a game about fake stuttering. We fake stuttered with prolongations, repetitions, and blocks. It was fun because Ms. Leggette got scared about the scary movies.

Posted by Victor

After that we were talking about a funny movie called Scary Movie 4 and this guy has been captured by Saw and cut off the wrong foot instead of the foot that was chained.  I worked on sound repetitions and had a good time.

Comment by Jonathan

November 10th, 2011

To Ms. Williams:  A cancellation is a stuttering modification tool where you get stuck or stutter on a word, and then right afterwards you say the word again easily (you cancel or erase the stuttering).

What we did today:
Today we played Connect Four and it was a tough competition against Victor and me, but luckily I won.  The reason why we played Connect Four is because we practiced doing stuttering modification tools. I worked on cancellations and first sound stretch, and Victor worked on pullouts.  It was fun, and I felt like I was good at first sound stretches but okay at cancellations.

Posted by Jonathan

November 3rd, 2011

Today we played a game Go Fish and we used our stuttering tools.  I used easy onsets and stretches at the phrase and sentence levels.  It felt hard because I am sick today.  I got better with more practice.  Jonathan practiced pullouts and he sounded great.  Ms. Leggette practiced cancellations.  She sounded awesome.  I feel happy and all of us did great.

Posted by Victor

What we did today- October 27th

Today we watched a video of a kid giving a presentation on stuttering and how kids could help us so we don't feel bad about our stuttering. And, we wrote in our powerpoint how we felt about our stuttering.

To Ms. Springer-
We will present our presentation after Christmas likely.

Posted by Jonathan

What we did today- October 13th

Today we recorded ourselves with a camera using the stuttering tools.  We all practiced using the tools. We will put it in our powerpoint.  We might want our teachers to see the video first.  We are still thinking about that.  Today we did great with our video.

Posted by:  Victor

October 6th, 2011 post

Today we  did our thought of the day, and the thought of the day is when we pull a piece of paper out of a bag and we read what it says and we answer the questions using our easy onsets.  An easy onset is a fluency shaping tool (we use it before we get stuck or when we feel that we're gonna get stuck), we use these tools to prevent us from getting stuck (e.g., we start our air before our voice and it sounds like this "hhhaaaat" on the word "hat").
Next we did my progress monitoring and we practiced pullouts at the structured conversation level (in Ms. Leggette's room in conversation).  We fake stuttered and real stuttered. We practiced listening if we can catch ourselves in real stuttering. It wasn't too hard, Victor used a buzzer to help me.

Second to last, we did our powerpoint.  Last, we did our blog.

Posted by Jonathan

What we did today- Sept 22nd

To Mrs. Williams-
What is a pullout:  A pullout is a stuttering modification tool.  You use a pullout when you stutter on a sound and then you "pull out" of the stuttering and finish the word.  For example, like this "h-h-h-hhhhill."

Our post for today-
Today we worked about stuttering tools.  We practiced easy onsets and cancellations at the sentence level.  We also worked on our powerpoint really hard.  We worked on what helps stuttering for us and what other people can do to help. We learned about the thought of the day- when people tease us about stuttering.  We got teased while playing videos games online because we stuttered.

Posted by: Victor

What we did this week (Thursday September 15th)

Today we got a question: "If I could trade my stuttering for another problem, I would take..."  Me and my friend Victor choose poor vision as our other problem.  Because stuttering is an obnoxious thing that I have to deal with everyday.

Next we worked on pullouts (a stuttering modification technique) which was ok because I partially knew this from 4th grade and now Ms. Leggette is teaching me more about it and I'm using what she taught me in my speaking.

Then, we worked more on our powerpoint.  We worked hard on the part about what causes stuttering and what is stuttering.  Victor felt happy and excited, and I felt exhilirated.

Posted by: Jonathan, 5th grade

Powerpoint

We started to make a powerpoint about stuttering and famous people who stutter.  We are hoping to share the powerpoint with our teachers, but we aren't sure if we're ready to share it with our classmates.

Posted by: Ms. Leggette, Victor, and Jonathan

Welcome to the Rose Hill stuttering group blog!

Hello!

We've created a Rose Hill stuttering group blog to post things we're learning about stuttering and what speech therapy for stuttering is all about.