Smile I Stutter is a non-profit organization that provides speech therapy and other mental health resources for all of those with a speech impediment.
Our mission starts in grade school helping children ages 7-13 by providing not only speech therapy and mental health resources, in-school curriculum and an annual summer camp to help build confidence. Summer camps promote community, life-long friendships and the tools and techniques needed to live life to the fullest even with a stutter. These summer camps even lead to opportunities to obtain scholarships for college.
Our mission is continued into adulthood by providing "life-changing" devices that help eliminate stuttering by up to 90%. The device uses a variation of frequencies to play back the speakers voice in their ear in a way that the brain thinks and responds like you're singing along to a song, and ultimately significantly reduces the act of stuttering. These devices are not covered by insurance and can be expensive to obtain. We gladly guide our recipients through the process to get their device and have continued speech therapy, all at no cost to the recipient.
On a more personal level, I created Smile I Stutter for my son. When my son was born, I prayed every night that he would not stutter like me. I barely made it through my early years, and I really didn't want him to suffer through the same trails. When he began to stutter, my heart sank beneath the floor. I blamed myself for his stutter.
Fast forward about 11 years later, I'm taking him back to the airport to go back home to his mom. He was a pre-teen, so he wanted to answer all the questions that TSA asks (name,address,age). When we got to the counter, the questions came and when he couldn't say the answers, every ADULT laughed at both he and I. When Cameron looked at me and asked, "Dad, why are they laughing at us?", I knew I had to do something. The very next week Smile I Stutter was created.
It was created to show him and others like him that it's OK to stutter!
Smile I Stutter is a Registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Smile I Stutter is a non-profit organization that provides speech therapy and mental health resources for all those with a speech impediment.
$500 Sends a child to Speech Therapy for 1 month
$1000 Sends a child to Speech Therapy for 2 months
$5000 Speech Easy Device (minimizes 75% of stuttering)
$10000 Helps SIS expand our reach to kids and adults both in North Texas and around the globe.
Organization name
Smile I Stutter
Causes
Human Rights, Civil Rights & Advocacy, Intellectual, Developmental, and Physical Differences, Youth & Children
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant
BIPOC Serving
Black or African American
BIPOC Leadership
Board Chair
Address
4000 PARKSIDE CENTER BLVD APT 3403