Stuttering Treatment Programmes for Teenagers and Adults
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What effective treatments are available for people who stutter? The answer will depends on age and what your goal is.
Are you looking to stop stuttering or significantly reduce stuttering? Or, perhaps, you would just like to worry about stuttering less or want to stuttering in a more relaxed, easy way? Below is an overview of some evidence-based stuttering therapies. Read on to find the right therapy for you.
Are you looking to stop stuttering or significantly reduce stuttering? Or, perhaps, you would just like to worry about stuttering less or want to stuttering in a more relaxed, easy way? Below is an overview of some evidence-based stuttering therapies. Read on to find the right therapy for you.
Adult Stuttering Therapy
Therapy can either target 1) the elimination of stuttering through speech techniques and relearning your speaking style or...2) changing your feelings about stuttering (on the basis that if you accept your stutter, you may find that you stutter less or in a more relaxed, manageable way).
Prolonged Speech
In this therapy you will start by learning to produce fluent speech at a very slow rate, prolonging each sound. You will then slowly increase the speech rate until you find the optimum rate at which you can still speak without stuttering. Therapy focuses on using this new speaking style in progressively more difficult speaking situations. There is good evidence for this approach (Bothe et al., 2006).
Modifying Phonation Intervals (MPI)
This is an exciting new therapy that makes use of an iOS app to give you feedback about your speech and helps you to stop stuttering. The app analyses your speech and helps you to eliminate short phonation intervals (i.e. times when your vocal folds switch on and then off very quickly) as reducing the frequency of these short intervals has been shown to reduce stuttering. As with prolonged speech, you then learn to maintain this reduction of short intervals during a series of progressively more challenging speaking situations (e.g. starting with reading aloud alone, working towards situations such as speaking on the phone). This approach has many of the advantages of prolonged speech but is able to achieve more natural sounding speech. The use of an app allows the user to practice independently in a highly structured programme. (add evidence). Please note - I do not currently offer this therapy but plan to train shortly.
Prolonged Speech
In this therapy you will start by learning to produce fluent speech at a very slow rate, prolonging each sound. You will then slowly increase the speech rate until you find the optimum rate at which you can still speak without stuttering. Therapy focuses on using this new speaking style in progressively more difficult speaking situations. There is good evidence for this approach (Bothe et al., 2006).
Modifying Phonation Intervals (MPI)
This is an exciting new therapy that makes use of an iOS app to give you feedback about your speech and helps you to stop stuttering. The app analyses your speech and helps you to eliminate short phonation intervals (i.e. times when your vocal folds switch on and then off very quickly) as reducing the frequency of these short intervals has been shown to reduce stuttering. As with prolonged speech, you then learn to maintain this reduction of short intervals during a series of progressively more challenging speaking situations (e.g. starting with reading aloud alone, working towards situations such as speaking on the phone). This approach has many of the advantages of prolonged speech but is able to achieve more natural sounding speech. The use of an app allows the user to practice independently in a highly structured programme. (add evidence). Please note - I do not currently offer this therapy but plan to train shortly.
Ideas, techniques, and strategies to speak more easily in demanding situations.
Ways to change unhelpful thought patterns and overcome negative feelings about stuttering.
Ways to change unhelpful thought patterns and overcome negative feelings about stuttering.
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Fees
After the free initial consultation, Skype or phone sessions are £50 per hour. However, I can often tailor the therapy according to your needs and budget. Please get in touch to discuss options even if you don't feel you can commit to regular, hour-long therapy sessions.
