SKILL at Purdue

Last month, a few SKILLab members travelled to San Diego to present at the 2025 conference!!
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Happy National stuttering awareness day! (ISAD)

Today we want to celebrate stuttering awareness around the world. The theme from the National Stuttering Association is, “A Diverse Stuttering Community Meeting Challenges With Strengths”.

Today is a GREAT day to spread awareness for those who stutter. Show your support and use today to talk about how great stuttering is! 💜

In a sea of other flyers make sure to keep an hour out for ours! 👀

In the comments tell us where you think this flyer is located!

Happy Finals Week Purdue! 🎊📚

We wanted to share some helpful tips to prepare for Finals week! Finals week can be stressful for everyone, but remember these few tips and remember to celebrate how far you have made it!

Good luck to everyone!! 🍀

Happy May everyone, which means, Happy Speech-Language-Hearing Month!! 💭👂🌸

This month is a great chance to learn more about resources and the research for speech, language, and hearing.

Have a great May!!

Happy International Earth Day from the Skill Lab!

We hope today you get a chance to get outside and give some love to our beautiful planet! 🌎🍃🌳🌾🌷

Member shout out! 🎉

Today one of our lab members, Taylor Irvin, presented her research within our lab at the Purdue Undergraduate Spring Research Conference!

Her research is on the Role of Contextual Memory in Speech Auditory-Motor Adaptation.

Great job Taylor!! 🙌🏻🎊

Happy Monday!

This week we wanted to highlight the importance of understanding that there is no connection between stuttering and intellectual ability.

Stuttering is a speech disorder, not a cognitive impairment. It is a neurological condition that affects the flow or fluency of speech, not a person’s ability to think or learn.

Have a great week! ☀️📚

Yesterday Purdue NSSLHA held an event that featured an awesome guest speaker, Andy Fitzenrider!

Andy is a person who stutters, and at this event, he was able to share his experience with stuttering and some key tips about changing the mindset around stuttering and what has helped him in his journey.

We wanted to share some key takeaways from his amazing talk:

1. In therapy, don’t focus SO much on fluency and trying to stop stuttering, but instead focus on how to MODIFY the stutter. Stuttering therapy is about getting rid of the struggle, not the stutter.

2. The reactions of others are what triggers the fear and avoidance of stuttering, not the actual stutter.

3. Stuttering can vary from person to person and it is important to try not to compare someone’s stuttering journey with your own.

4. Stuttering is just one small part of what makes a person human, it does not define who a person is, and in fact it is what makes us all imperfectly perfect!

Happy Spring! 🌸🌼🌷

Some of our lab members this past week enjoyed the warm weather and posted our flyer around Purdue’s campus! If you see a flyer don’t hesitate to reach out to our lab and feel free to share!

Have a great week! 💐