When I was high school age, mother (bless her heart) drove me twice a week from New York to Connecticut to see a specialist in stuttering therapy. She later told me, before my first session this “expert” told her that SHE WAS THE CAUSE OF MY STUTTERING!! So here is more of a stutterer’s story: […]
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I know that many people who stutter have gone through intensive stuttering therapy already. Prolonged Speech or Fluency Shaping programs have been the traditional standard for adult and teenager residential or intensive stuttering treatments. I attended such a fluency shaping program myself many years ago. After I graduated from the Stutter-Free Speech Program developed by Dr.
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Are there real differences in anatomy and physiology between stutterers and nonstutterers? The answer is Yes. Research has compared the structure and function of the voice and brains of these two groups of people. Vocal Reaction Times were measured in both groups of stutterers They were presented with a signal light and instructed to just
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October 22 will be International Stuttering Awareness Day this year. Many people who stutter, therapists who work with stuttering and stuttering researchers use this day to pass along accurate information about stuttering and stuttering therapy. There are many myths about stuttering that are still believed by many people who stutter and parents of stutterers today.
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I was invited to the Widex Speech and Hearing Company to come to their Center in Hong Kong. They asked me as a stuttering specialist to provide stuttering training for about 100 Chinese Speech Therapists. They were part of the public school system in the city of Hong Kong. My full-day workshop trained these Chinese therapists
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Most people who stutter can tell you that their stuttering started somewhere during the pre-school age. I don’t actually remember that time, but my mother tells me that not only did I stutter – but I was teased a lot by the neighbor kid! In this post we are going to discuss how to Replace
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This is what really drove me to my stuttering therapy….the pain of stuttering. For me, the thing that really held me back, while I was still stuttering, was not the stuttering itself. I felt that I could hide the stuttering – sometimes at least. Here are the ways that I hid my stuttering: Kept my
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Good question and one that everyone considering intensive therapy needs to address. What my stuttering therapy cost me: I went through this same intensive therapy program in 1982 with Dr. George Shames, at the University of Pittsburg, one of the developers of the Stutter-Free Speech Program. So here is what my stuttering therapy cost me:
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Finding a stuttering treatment that works can be a challenge. People who stutter have tried stuttering many therapy programs and have been disappointed in the results. They are usually in a lot of pain because of their stuttering and need to find a stuttering treatment that works. Not only is it hard to get the words
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I hated my stuttering!! Sitting in the back of the room, avoiding conversations, missing out on the good jobs, and not meeting new people because of this embarrassing problem? This is why I hated my stuttering Hi. My name is Mark Power and for 35 years I felt like a misfit and an alien. No
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