Stuttering in the Arts

Author
Hannah Smith

Imagine for a moment you’re a musical note with a stutter. What does your dynamic and texture sound like next to the other notes in your song? What kinds of conversations would you have with other musical notes?

CSA Award 2025 Winner

Because of donations, we are able to continue offering our annual CSA Award of $500 for post-secondary students in Canada who stutter!  It is critical that we support our youth and we are grateful to be able to do so!  

The CSA Board of Directors is extremely happy to present to you our 2025 CSA Award winner, Malick Camara!  

My Stutter Has Taught Me To Persevere

Author
Malick Camara

I have always stuttered as far as I could remember my earliest memory of speaking. I could barely get past two phrases without being impeded by a speech block. I couldn’t fathom why my speech never came out smooth like everybody else’s. Kids and some simple-minded adults would pose random questions to me and laugh their lungs out as I tried to answer. I could barely utter a word without instigating a war between my vocal cords and articulators.

Adventures in Stuttering (“become a stutterer and travel the world”)

Author
Catherine Moroney

I have recently had the exceedingly good fortune to attend both (a) the ISA World Congress (International Stuttering Association) in far-northern Finland in August of 2025, and (b) the inaugural “STARS” Conference (Stuttering Treatment and Research Society) in Laguna Niguel in Southern California the following month.