Stutter with Confidence #64 with Dori Holte - Inside the Mission to Unearth more Stuttering Voices

Stutter with Confidence #64 with Dori Holte - Inside the Mission to Unearth more Stuttering Voices Stutter with Confidence #64 with Dori Holte Inside the Mission to Unearth more Stuttering Voices I really enjoyed this conversation with Dori Holte, who runs the Voice Unearthed Facebook support group for parents of kids who stutter and the author of the book by the same name. We discussed the FRIENDS support organization and how welcoming and open-minded to different perspectives that it is for kids and adults who stutter; we discussed the fact that speech therapy techniques for controlling stuttering tend to fall apart as soon as the person leave the clinical setting; Dori’s story as a mother of a person who stutters and her decades long mission to improve the experience and change the status quo for kids who stutter and their parents; Dori’s frustration and disillusionment with the quality of several fluency based speech therapists that her son saw in childhood; the quality speech therapy he finally received which focused on getting him talking again and enjoying it; how he eventually turned into the extrovert that he naturally is; her concern that the shortcomings of therapy focused on “fixing” the stutter is often not discussed with parents; we discussed the new book on stuttering that she’s working on and the several dozen interviews with people who stutter and parents that she has conducted; and a ton more. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/ayc1lDV1W2A