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No overlap in the Venn diagram between acceptance and learning fluency? ;) Some people want to improve their fluency. SLPs can help them do that. If you're seeking self acceptance, why would you se...

If your speech is causing you that much anxiety and depression, why don’t you speak to your doctor about getting you onto anti-anxiety medication to help you at least address the anxiety around your s...

>My personal take, any SLP that talks or advocates fluency doesn't really get it. Even if they stutter themselves.  How do you support such an idea? Maybe I'm misunderstanding your meaning. To me, a...

I don't think I said he purports to cure stuttering, only that he seems to focus on fluency which imo is totally the wrong direction as fluency incompatible with acceptance of being a pws. Also hearin...

Nice! And how is your fluency nowadays? I found mine relapsed after a while. If you don’t practice every single day, it gets away from you unfortunately....

You’re a mum for selling out the best help she can get at an early age! I wish my parents did the same for me! My only suggestion is to keep encouraging her to practice and use the techniques every s...

From his own bio: >Georgia licensed and nationally certified speech-language pathologist since 1992, he specializes in the evaluation and treatment of fluency disorders in Atlanta. As a severe stutter...

I wouldn’t have believed it either until I saw how much improvement my teen had with it last week seeing a stuttering specialist. It was crazy strange…but amazing....

My daughter stutters and had ZERO improvement, we just got back from seeing a well known stuttering therapist in Atlanta and it was a huge unexpected improvement. Like HUGE....

We just got back from my daughter seeing a special speech therapist that only focuses on stuttering. It was a game changer in my teen. It was nothing like her regular speech therapy. Worth a try if y...

We just got back from my daughter seeing a well known stuttering speech therapist. Everyone is different but she had huge unexpected improvement. I highly recommend stutterers to try a speech therapis...

Seeing a stuttering speech therapist seems like it could be game changer for my daughter.

Seeing a stuttering speech therapist seems like it could be game changer for my daughter. I took my 14yr old daughter to see, Tim Mackesey, a certified stutter speech therapist in Atlanta for a 3 day ...

Yes I was taught this in speech therapy when I was younger! They referred to it as “easy onset”. It’s one of the many speech habits I learned as a child that has made speaking as an adult so much easi...

Hello! Thanks for talking to all of us here. I have learned that techniques can be used to reduce tension and help you 'stutter with ease'. I have gone to speech therapy twice, several years apart. T...

Check out this video. This program is all about Communication, Advocacy, Resilience (emotion) and Education https://youtu.be/RSiEgvk45DU?feature=shared On great activity with younger clients is t...

Yes. Addressing the social-emotional aspect of stuttering is a major part of successful speech therapy. Any speech1language pathologist worth their salt targets emotions in treatment....

For my wedding speech I stressed the fk out for days beforehand! Low and behold, on the night I spoke perfectly fluently. Could have been the couple of scotches I had before the formalities began th...

Stop Stuttering Short Course: How to Break the Stuttering Book! Best book I've ever read in my life! I think I learned more about stuttering and why I do it than any other stuttering book I've ever re...

In the professors case, as he gets more comfortable, he can always find ways to alleviate any issues students may have like notes and good references to the material and so much more.  We have had iss...

He’s literally the reason I’m a speech therapist! If it wasn’t for him idk where I’d be at today. I remember after his program, I ordered food for the first time in my life without stuttering, and tha...