Stammering Pride and Prejudice: Difference not Defect

by Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino, Sam Simpson

Stammering is typically stigmatized as a character flaw and personal tragedy. We challenge the stereotype that stammering is inherently negative. Instead, we position stammering as a different, valuable and respected way of speaking. Stammering Pride and Prejudice brings together new, empowering voices and opinions on stammering into one accessible text. Combining personal narrative, art and disability theory, we document how society has historically disabled people who stammer and the diverse ways in which people have created novel and exciting understandings of their speech. Stammering Pride and Prejudice •
Is the first published book exploring stammering from a social model perspective written for people who stammer and the general public, as well as professionals 
•Represents diverse perspectives on stammering and highlights the attitudinal, environmental and structural barriers in society experienced by people who stammer •
Chronicles newly-developed and undocumented narratives around stammering 
•Suggests ways of celebrating and taking pride in stammering so that it is no longer seen as the negative opposite of fluency.

319 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2020

Reviews

[Ramdeep Romann · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a person who stammers, this book has created a paradigm shift in the way I view my own stammer. For the first time in my life, I've stopped looking at my stammer as a personal failing that I needed to somehow "overcome". For the first time I've begun to accept it as a normal part of who I am. I had never imagined ever combining the words stammering and pride in the same sentence and yet now I realise just how important it is to feel and embrace this inextricable part of who I am.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in or affected by a stammer, be it themselves or a loved one. Every chapter is written by a different person with their own unique insight into the stammering pride movement and the book therefore helps to create this very nuanced tapestry of ideas. We discover this complex world through each author's own lived experience.

There's no better way to discover the stammering pride movement.

[Julia Kerrigan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super impactful, these essays are going to be a cornerstone of my research on stuttering from this point on