• Pay attention to the next guest speaker at your school or job.  Watch your teachers or co-workers very closely.  Listen to the preacher at your church.  Do you notice something?  They all stutter.  Everybody does.  The only difference is the degree or severity of the dysfunction.  All those "ahh", "umms", "ehh", or prolonged silent pauses, repetition of sounds, prolongation of sounds, they are all stuttering in one way or another.  You are not alone. Don't feel as if you are the only person dealing with this issue.