The Alternative to "One-Size-Fits-All" Stuttering Therapy

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Here’s a recap!

For different people, different things are going to be helpful. At Schneider Speech, we don't use the term ‘stuttering modification’ or ‘fluency shaping’, instead it's always based on: what are the client’s needs, what are the client’s goals. We can figure out and custom tailor fit the right therapy plan for them once we identify the following: 

• what their needs are

• what their communication spirit is

• what is the nature of their stuttering

• what their goals are

• where they would like to be more free to speak and speak fully and express themselves fully we can figure out and custom tailor fit the right therapy plan for them.

Here's some general tips about stuttering therapy: 

• if a technique doesn't work, it's not worth it

• if a technique is not acceptable if it doesn't sound better than their other way of speaking it's not good enough

• don' make it robotic - if it's so effortful they can't remember what it was they wanted to say because they're so focused on strategies, IT'S NOT A STRATEGY THAT WORKS.

• a good therapist, is going to tune into that and make an adjustment, either to change something about the technique or change direction entirely.

Uri Schneider, Co-Director Schneider Speech