speech disorders

Presents a story that provides insights into the challenges faced by children suffering with speech impairments, and the impact of the disability on family members and friends, and features facts about how speech happens, the different types of speech impairments, their causes, and treatments.

All his classmates make fun of Rodney because he cannot pronounce his name, but it is Rodney's speech impediment that drives away the class bully.

Ten-year-old Bobbie Jo and mean Clara Jean are disappointed when they discover that the fabulous F. Bam Morrison, a supposed advance man for the circus, is really a crook who has pulled a scam on the entire town, but the girls save the day when they work together to plan their own celebration.

Second-grader Mary Marony wants to be something scary for Halloween so she can get back at Marvin, who makes fun of Mary's stuttering.

When they are left with relatives in Colorado, ten-year-old Hattie and her older brother depend on their friendship with a recluse who lives nearby to make their lives bearable.

With the support of her mother and new classmates, Mary sees a speech therapist about her stuttering problem.

Tongue-tied Ruby Mae Foote fulfills her dream of speaking for world peace at the United Nations when her nephew Billy Bob invents a device to solve her speech problem.