“Stuttering: For Kids By Kids” is a DVD available in Spanish to help stuttering children feel like they aren’t alone in their gross, embarrassing deformity:

Many children who stutter have never met anyone else who struggles with the same disability. But in this new video from the Stuttering Foundation, they meet other kids who recount how they handle challenges such as teasing, speaking out in class, and teaching others about stuttering.

Swish, a lively and engaging animated basketball character designed by students at Purdue University, narrates the video.

Swish? A “lively and engaging” “basketball character” cartoon? Well, you don’t have to make the freaks feel even more uncool by introducing them to a misappropriation of urban culture that’s palatable to upper middle-class white people. Gosh!

The children, who range in age from first-graders to high school students, offer frank and sometimes differing views of stuttering.

For example, Matthew, age 10, says about his speech difficulties, “It’s no big deal;” but Kate, age 9, worries about talking, what is going to happen next and whether or not she’ll stutter. Arianne , age 14, says, “The hardest part about stuttering is to get through it and to stay in there when you’re stuck.” Umang, age 12, agrees, “Sometimes it gets kind of annoying when you want to say something and you can’t. I also get worried what other people might think if I do stutter and wonder if I’ll be able to get out of my blocks and things.”

Aw. Precious. They’re almost like normal children!

Except for the whole “speaking in Spanish” thing. Yuck.

In Their Own Words: Kids Who Stutter Star in New Spanish Video [Stuttering Help]