Making Stuttering Therapy Work

In online stuttering forums when someone asks about a stuttering treatment, other people respond, “That doesn’t work.”

Why are persons who stutter so sure that “nothing works”? Hundreds of studies have reported positive results. Most stuttering therapy reviews are five stars.

This e-book explains how each stuttering therapy works, how to maximize its effectiveness, and what to do if a therapy doesn’t work for you.

Pre-School Stuttering Therapies

• Wendell Johnson’s Indirect Therapy

  Developed in the 1930s and 1940s, this widely recommended therapy contends that parents cause their child to stutter and alters the parents’ behavior, without treating the child.

• Lidcombe and Westmead Programs

  These modern direct therapies from Australia alter the child’s speech. Parents are trained as the primary therapy providers.

School-Age Stuttering Therapies

• Fluency Shaping for 6- to 9-Year-Olds

  Can children do this adult stuttering therapy?

• SLPs vs. Parents vs. Electronic Devices

  Who’s the best therapy provider—SLPs in a speech clinic, parents at home, or a computer?

Adult Stuttering Therapies

• Stuttering Modification (Van Riper) Therapy (reviews)

  Developed in the 1930s and 1940s, stuttering modification therapy contends that persons who stutter can never talk fluently but can learn to stutter more easily and with less fear and anxiety.

• Stress, Dopamine, and “Psyching” Yourself Out of Stuttering

  Why do you stutter with some people but not others? Can you “psyche” yourself into fluent speech everywhere, with everyone?

• Vitamin B-1 (Thiamin)

  What evidence is there that a vitamin can make persons who stutter fluent?

• Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) and other AAF Devices

  How do anti-stuttering devices make persons who stutter fluent?

• Fluency Shaping Therapy

  This speech therapy teaches persons who stutter to relax their breathing and vocal folds and then stretch voiced vowels and consonants.

  • Motor Learning and Control

    The neurological basis of fluency shaping therapy.

  • Fluency Shaping Techniques

    How to do fluency shaping therapy.

  • Autonomous Stage Fluency

    Making fluent speech automatic and effortless.

  • If You Tried Fluency Shaping and You Still Stutter

    Is relapse inevitable?

  • Hollins Fluency System (reviews)

    Reviews of a fluency shaping therapy residential program.

  • Practice Word Lists

• Modifying Phonated Intervals (MPI)

  A new therapy that trains persons who stutter to speak without tensing their vocal folds for very short fractions of a second.

• Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) for Social Anxiety

  Can computers treat social anxiety?

• Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)

  Can electrodes on your skull improve therapy results?

Putting It All Together

No one therapy cures stuttering. But combining multiple therapies results in long-lasting fluent speech.

Author: Thomas David Kehoe
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