Dealing With A Stutterer

[nailit]

If you ever have a conversation with someone who has a very obvious stutter, how do you deal with it?
This is a story from my local newspaper
http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/first-potteries-says-sorry-after-driver-laughed-at-stone-passenger-s-stammer/story-30192462-detail/story.html

Its not so much about the story (bus driver smirks at someone with a stutter) as to the comment below (some of which are mine). Why do some people seem to think poking fun at a stutterer is fair game?
I had a massive stutter as a youngster and it was hell trying to get through life with people taking the urine. Ive still got a bit of a stutter when I get nervous.
How would you deal with a stutterer?

[Smowball]

My son used to have a stutter and he became paranoid about speaking to people. Luckily it gradually lessened and now he doesn't have it at all but it was very stressful for him.

[Jackdaw33]

There must be some kind of psycho-physiological reason why some people stutter,but I don't know what it is. Fortunately I have never suffered from this affliction, although I have been known to lapse, quite unconsciously, into Spoonerisms, often with hilarious and embarrassing results.

[Samuraisan]

Nailit, your panic attacks and now learning you had a stammer. Sorry, please don't be offended.

[nailit]

Sam, not offended in the least :-)
We all have different lives and all have different problems. My problems are no less real than yours (or anyone elses) just different I suppose.

[Samuraisan]

True Nailit. We all have our problems. Mine at the moment is shall I have another glass of wine ? Or go and have a shower. More like a dilemma I suppose.

[nailit]

when it comes to dillemmas like that sam, the wine wins everytime.
;-)

[tamborine]

We are at war with gggggg.......gloucester? glasgow? Ghana? Gambia? Grenwich? No! We are at war with Jjjjjjjjjjj...... java? Japan? Jamaica? John o groats? Johannesburg? Nnnno! We are at war with JjJermany ;). Any wonder it was world war - lol

[marval]

A girl I was at school with had a bad stammer. We became very good friends, I learnt to have patience. I didn't finish what she was saying, she needed to do that herself.

I know of two people who stammered in English, but when they spoke German the stammer disappeared.

[ummmm]

And that, Tambo, was the point Nalit was making!!!!

[jourdain2]

My late bro-in-law had a bad stammer and I have come across many stammerers/stutterers in school. It is simply patience allied to good manners and courtesy to allow time for words to come out. It helps to keep an interested expression on your face. Very rarely, repeat 'very rarely' it can help to give a prompt.

Some people are just not very considerate and they are failing as social beings really i.m.o.. You can only hope that youngsters will grow up.

[anneasquith]

I'm confused tambourine, was that a joke ?

[-SharonA-]

My last manager stuttered and we on his team had patience when speaking with him. But there was one occasion at work in a meeting, when his boss said 'come on spit it out'. You could hear him rollicking his boss all round the building and what's more he did not stutter once during the rollicking!!

[Everhelpful]

Don't know if it is true but, I have heard anyone with a stammer never does it when they sing.

[Mamyalynne]

Singing therapy is often recommended for stammerers.