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Stuttering Treatment

Stuttering treatment is effective and available to help people who stutter. Power Stuttering Center provides stuttering treatment for children and adults.

Preschool stuttering treatment for children 1 to 5 years old

School-aged stuttering treatment for children 6 – 12 years old

Teenage stuttering treatment for teenagers 13 – 19 years old

Adult stuttering treatment for adults 2 years and older.

 

 

 

 

 

Adult Stuttering Therapy

Most people who stutter are very discouraged about stuttering therapy for adults. I have seen this in my private practice, and on social media. I have seen that they have been through countless attempts at improving their fluency through therapy in the schools and by speech therapists’ offices.   Lack of Training in Adult Stuttering Therapy Unfortunately,

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Stuttering Treatment Research

Stuttering Treatment Research –  Speech Journal Review of Prolonged Speech Stuttering Treatment Research – including the Stutter-Free Speech Program and the MPI Stuttering Treatment Program. From: A Research-Based Clinical Tutorial in Adolescent Stuttering: Response to Coleman, Miller, and Weidner (2015) Anne Bothe Marcotte and Nina M. Santus SIG 4 Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders, October 2015,

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How Long Did Your Fluency Last?

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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Can I afford stuttering therapy? What my stuttering therapy cost me.

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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Stuttering Modification vs Fluency Shaping – My opinion

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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