To find out what being a stuttering skater means to me, please read the full description, much love.
In this video, I "Street Skate" New York City at a rapid pace in the Slades Skate Shoes (www.flaneurz.com/en/slades/ho.... I begin at Colombus Circle and skate through the heart of the city that never sleeps, down through Times Square and back up to 5th and 59th in time to pick up my newly repaired phone from Apple.
My Stuttering Skater Story:
My experience with Stuttering and Skating are quite related.
After years of speech therapy and not achieving the fluency goals that more than 20 specialists promised me, I started treatment at the American Institute for Stuttering.
Their approach was to help me stutter freely and take away layers instead of suggesting speech modification methods that just added to my frustrations with stuttering. They truly gave me this element of freedom that I wasn’t able to achieve prior and focused on making me the most powerful and genuine communicator I could be.
The reason I love skating so much is the freedom it gives me. It makes me feel that I can go anywhere, express myself authentically, and forget about the complexities that life throws us sometimes.
I’m so very thankful to AIS and to skating for genuinely allowing me to feel this freedom in different ways.
I’ve partnered up with SLADES. They make this awesome skate technology that will give you an optimal level of freedom in many situations. Slades has been generous in supporting me and this campaign specifically. All affiliate revenue will go directly to the great organization that has helped me become the communicator and person that I am today, The American Institute For Stuttering.
My goal is to raise awareness for people who stutter, which is often misunderstood, yet 1% of the world stutters, that’s 70 million people, while helping AIS’s work to offer effective stuttering therapy for every member of the community, regardless of their resources. My goal is also to help as many people access the feeling of freedom from skating. This campaign enables me to do both at the same time! Use my code ARISQUAD for your Slades Order to get 5% off on a great product while also supporting such a phenomenal organization in AIS.
Link to Slades skate shoes: www.flaneurz.com/en/slades/ho...
Link to make an independent donation to the American Institute for Stuttering: secure.givelively.org//donate...
Link to AIS's website: www.stutteringtreatment.org
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