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Katherine Preston

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Katherine Preston is the author of Out With It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice. At the age of twenty-four she left her home and career in London and moved to America to conduct research. She slept on strangers’ sofas, drove across the country and interviewed over a hundred different stutterers, therapists and researchers to finally face her fear of stuttering. Her first book, Out With It, chronicles her journey into finding self-acceptance.

Today she works as a freelance writer, motivational public speaker and is the Creative Director and Co-Founder of the cell phone recycling business ExchangeMyPhone. Raised in England, Preston now lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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Voicing the Real Self

Such a joy to write for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, exploring the complex relationship between our voices and identities. Here’s an excerpt from the piece. To read the full article jump on over to the ASHA Leader website:

“If you sat across from a blindfolded stranger and started to speak, what might they infer from your voice? They might guess your age, your gender and your b

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Out with It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice

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Dec 06, 2013 10:50AM

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“Very few people stutter when they are standing alone in a room speaking to themselves, so how much did Ted’s blindness free him from reacting to the perceptions of others?”
― Katherine Preston, Out With It: How Stuttering Helped Me Find My Voice

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