I want to talk to the people who stutter who are reading this blog. Recently, I have been to several workshop and seminars that present information to people who stutter and speech-language pathologists The message I hear most clearly is that stuttering is OK and is not the fault of the person who stammers. This […]
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Researching stuttering treatments is really not very hard. So, by using scientific studies of treatment results, you can select effective therapy for stuttering. PubMed is one of the best search tools for online research and is provided free of cost by the National Institutes of Health at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed How to search PubMed The problem lies
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People have probably told you that all you need to do is just “SLOW DOWN” and “THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY”. I know that I heard that a lot when I was stuttering severely. The problem was that I tried that many times and I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t just slow
Most of you know that I was a severe stutterer for the first 35 years of my life before I found a stuttering treatment that worked for me. That included grade school, high school, and college. While I was getting my M.A. in Communicative Disorders, I still stuttered. I remember being the example for other
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True story of a client that came to me Last week, I started a stuttering therapy plan and treatment with a new client who stutters. During the initial evaluation of his stuttering, he told me about some of the previous stuttering therapy experiences that he had been through. He told me about one stuttering therapy
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Stuttering Modification techniques were developed by Charles Van Riper in the 1930s. Clinicians wanted to teach clients to “stutter more easily”. They taught techniques to reduce tension by training muscle relaxation during the moments of stuttering. Some of these procedures are “pull-outs” (reducing tension during the stuttering moment) and “cancellations” (completing the stuttering moment and
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Many teenagers and adults who stutter have had tons of speech therapy. Starting in the public schools, where there would usually be a new person every year with a new plan for stuttering treatment. The problem is that most University Graduate Programs do not provide adequate training in the area of stuttering. When I went
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This is MY Story – A Stutterer’s Story My name is Mark Power and for 35 years I felt like a misfit and an alien. No matter where I went, I could not escape my stuttering problem and my hatred of talking. I hated the sound of my own voice. At my school, there was one other
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Hi. My name is Mark Power and for 35 years I felt like a misfit and an alien. No matter where I went, I could not escape my stuttering problem and my hatred of talking. I hated the sound of my own voice. At my school there was one other kid who stuttered and he
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