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Early Childhood Stuttering Therapy is an amazing read and extremely practical. I don’t remember enjoying a manual like this in. . . EVER! It is informative and easy to understand—and the visuals and handouts are so useful.
Thank you for the OASES assessment. Using it this week with two 4th and 5th grade students was so enlightening. I wish there were assessments like this for ALL the communication disorders!
Just ordered ANOTHER copy of School-Age Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide—I keep lending mine out and not getting it back! Thanks for a great resource!
As an SLP and person who stutters, I definitely love Stuttering Therapy Resources and all it offers the field of speech-language pathology—books, blog, and social media.
Just wanted to write a quick note to say a HUGE thank you to Scott and Nina for the well-crafted, practical videos for parents in this time when communication is more crucial than ever. The videos say exactly the message I wish to deliver to "my parents."
I had the most powerful and moving IEP of my career yesterday, and it was all in thanks to you! You have helped me see stuttering in a whole new light, and it has already made an impact on others.... so... THANK YOU!
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Coming Soon: The Fully Revised Second Edition of School-Age Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide
The fully revised second edition of School-Age Stuttering Therapy is coming soon, and we cannot wait to share it with you. Join our email community and follow @StutteringTherapyResources on social media to be alerted as soon as it is available. This new edition was created to help you feel more informed, more prepared, and more confident as you support children and teens who stutter.
Why can stuttering be so confusing to listeners? Part 2: They're disfluent too!
Stuttering is often confused with disfluency because everyone experiences disruptions in speech. However, stuttering is characterized by a unique sensation of “loss of control” while speaking, unlike non-stuttered disfluencies. This distinction helps clarify the difference between stuttering and disfluency emphasizing the importance of understanding the speaker’s experience rather than just observable behaviors.
Why can stuttering be so confusing to listeners? Part 1: Variability
Stuttering varies. Everyone knows that. The amount of stuttering that people experience on the inside or show on the outside changes depending upon the situation in which they are speaking, the specific speaking task in which they are engaged, the conversational partner or listener to whom they are speaking, and more; it also varies at different points in time, within the same day or across...
Remembering our dear friend, Bill Murphy
Bill was a pioneer in our field—a true “clinician’s clinician,” who did groundbreaking work in bringing resources from counseling psychology and social work to the field of speech-language pathology.