Rate of Stuttering
Do you stutter more in more contextual or situational settings as in out of nervousness, frustration, or embarrassment or is a stutter consistent no matter the social context.
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Safety Behaviours and Speech Treatment for AWS
Could you please comment on recent research (Helgadottir et al. JSLHR 2014) that confirms that many SLPs working with those who stutter may be using safety behaviors as a means of managing social anxiety, and this could be having the effect … Continue reading →
Has Anyone Applied Gamification To Stuttering Therapy?
Recently I have been watching YouTube TEDx talk video clips on gamification. Gamification can be defined as the craft of deriving all the fun and addicting elements found in games and applying them to real world problems. The term was coined … Continue reading →
Dealing with shame
I’m curious about the professional opinions of stuttering related shame. I’m a veteran stutterer and have been on a long journey of acceptance. I was extremely covert for many years and was often shackled by deep shame. I am now … Continue reading →
What about the kids?
I am encouraged to see mental health approaches (CBT, ACT, REBT, NLP, etc) emerge as a helpful interventions to be included in treatment strategies, and yet, most of these conversations are referring to adults. We need a more intentional focus … Continue reading →
When Is an Avoidance an Avoidance, When Is it a Therapy Technique?
Does anyone else define different types of avoidances and treat them differently? If a word is avoided by using different words, phrases , avoiding a person and/or avoiding a situation REBTS (see my paper for definition) calls them word avoidance.. If an avoidance … Continue reading →
allow yourself to stutter
Hi all, I love asking questions in this forum, cause I always receive interesting answers: So my question is, in the stuttering world you hear a lot about “Allow yourself to stutter”. As you know, you can stutter with sound … Continue reading →
Guilty for Avoiding??
I am NOT a person who stutters… I am an SLP. I am the chapter leader for a NSA Stuttering Support Group. In our last meeting, we discussed use of avoidances in conversation. The BIG question that nobody seems to … Continue reading →
Breaking the word in the middle
Dear expert, I would greatly appreciate your advice and feedback: I stutter from the age of 3, now I am in my late thirties. Beside blocks I have a tendency to break the words in the middle of the word! … Continue reading →
Stuttering OCD link?
Hi My child had a severe stutter and had therapy for many years. It pretty much went away, but now has OCD for several years. Both seems to have the basal ganglia/caudate nucleus involved. Any anictodial evidence or research on this … Continue reading →