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In this video I am going to share with you a mandatory component of stuttering treatment that if you use it with the right mentality will boost your results!

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Being a mental problem, it has always been hard for me to cope with the stuttering issue. Even though I had received treatment since I was young,I still have areas where this speech deficiency becomes a habit and an annoyance. Its mostly in situations where I’m nervous or I’m stressed. Its hard to live with, because its not a problem that is temporary but all through your life. Imagine yourself trying to socialize, even handling the simple manners of a phone call, and how at the exact moment when your going to speak you start to stutter. Its very hard, something that can destroy your social life, and the reason why I need answers.

There are some medications that other stutterers have tried, but most from posts I have read, have decided that the stuttering was better than the side effects of the medication. Some medications that other stutterers have tried include lorazepam, citalopram, celexa, and buspar.

Check these:
Medications for stuttering

http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=163 Dopamine levels in stutterers

Pagoclone

Read about Pagoclone here:
http://www.stutteringhelp.org/default.aspx?tabindex=515&tabid=525
Sign up for the clinical trial here:
http://www.indevus.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=58

Lorazepam is a benzodiazepine taken for anxiety. A great blog on Lorazepam is http://thestutteringbrain.blogspot.com/2007/06/guest-blogger-willme-on-ativan.html

Citalopram is an antidepressant http://www.medicinenet.com/citalopram/article.htm

Buspar http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/buspir.htm

Also check out these resources:
www.stutteringhelp.org there are videos online that show speech therapists working with stutterers; watch them and learn some techniques.
http://stutteringhelp-bud.blogspot.com/
http://notesonstuttering.blogspot.com/

Meet others who stutter here http://groups.myspace.com/stutteringfoundation
www.stutteringforum.com
Stuttering Foundation on Facebook

Contact The Stuttering Foundation of America as that is where our family got help. Their book "Self Therapy for the Stutterer" worked wonders after working through it step by step. The book can be found here http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=630

John Stossel is a Hollins Communications Research Intitute graduate, talking about the stuttering therapy program located in Roanoke, Virginia. Visit: www.Stuttering.org for more information.

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Eric and Peter visit the Stuttering Therapy and Resource Center of Long Island to record with Lee Caggiano, MA CCC-SLP and teenagers who stutter. Recorded 12/30/09. Thanks to Tommy, Josh, Steve, Greg and Mike!

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What is the difference between stammering vs stuttering? Also what is the best treatment for both?

They are 2 terms for the same thing.. however stammering is used more outside of North America / The States.

Check out http://www.killyourstutter.com for a great program on how to stop stuttering / stammering for good.

What is the best course of treatment for stuttering in children?

Our young son had an extremely bad stuttering problem. We tried speech therapists, counseling and whatnot to seeing no results. Then a friend recommended we try out the ‘Kill Your Stutter’ program at www.killyourstutter.com

After using the exercises contained within the program on the first day, we were able to help him to stop stuttering his words for good.. it was like a miracle!

Highly recommend you check out their site, good luck to you.

http://stutter.mynewvoice.com If you want to stop stuttering, stop looking for a cure! My New Voice gives you the keys to powers you already have! Attack Stuttering from the roots!

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A friend is in his late 20’s and stutters, sometimes really bad. Are there any treatments or meds to treat stuttering? I had it as a kid so I kind of know how he feels. Thanks for any help

The Stuttering Foundation of America was a tremendous help to an Uncle of mine who stuttered all of his life. Check out their web site to find tips of how others can help by changing the way they communicate with your friend. Tell your friend to go to the site and click on "adult" to read the information there. Click on "check your library" in the left column to see if a library in his town has the Foundation’s book "Self Therapy for the Stutterer" and their video/DVD "If You Stutter: Advice for Adults." If the library doesn’t have it, any public library can get free materials from the foundation by calling 800-992-9392. If he prefers to buy they himself, he can buy online or by calling. If he wants to go to a speech language pathologist click on "referrals" for one who has been trained by the Foundation to help those who stutter.

http://www.StutteringDissolution.com Watch an overview of today’s general stuttering therapy options with their cons and pros

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Speech Therapy: An Overview On Fluency Disorders

One of the main categories of speech problems in need for speech therapy are fluency disorders. However, there are different types of fluency disorders, even though they may all seem the same. Each type has its own cause, and defining characteristics that make them stand out from one another.

There are basically six main types of fluency disorders, while some are considered to be other conditions that are related to fluency disorders.

Normal Developmental Disfluency

Normal developmental disfluency, is a fluency disorder that is a lot of times mistaken to be stuttering. This condition occurs with children from ages 1:6- 6 years old, although the peak of the condition is considered to be 2-4 years of age.

A lot of parents may be concerned of the way their child speaks, but in reality, this is a normal condition that every child goes through. Normal developmental disfluency is a normal part of a child’s development. So there is really no need to worry at all.

A child would normally get over this stage as his speech skills develop. However, a proper environment, and interaction is needed for that to happen. If a child is pressured by his parents or people around him about his speech, the higher the probability that his disfluency would become a problem in the future and could develop to stuttering.

Stuttering

Stuttering is a disorder of childhood (developmental) that is characterized by an abnormally high frequency or duration of stoppages in the forward flow of speech. Although normal developmental disfluency has its own share of stoppages, stuttering on the other hand has some extra characteristics that normal developmental disfluency doesn’t have.

What makes stuttering different, from normal developmental disfluency, is that stuttering has escape behaviors, avoidance behaviors, and other secondary behaviors. These so called behaviors are also called physical concomitants. Some examples are eye blinks, head nods, jaw tremors and total body gyrations.

Neurogenic Disfluency

This kind of disfluency is a result of an identifiable neuropathology in a person that has no history of fluency problems prior to occurrence of the pathology. People who have accidents that caused brain problems, which induced their disfluency, fall into this category.

Neurogenic disfluency has similar characteristics as stuttering, including the physical behaviors like eye blinks and tremors. The thing is that, the main problem in conditions like these is not fluency at all, but the lesser control of muscles needed in speech production.

Psychogenic Disfluency

A disfluency with no found evidence of neurological dysfunction and no history of developmental stuttering. It is of sudden onset and attributed to an identifiable emotional crisis. Can be grouped into three categories namely: emotionally based, manipulative, and malingering disfluencies

An example of this kind of disfluency is when a person starts to stutter when a specific other is around. For instance, a student who is afraid of her teacher, starts to stutter every time her teacher is around but speaks fluently when around her friends and family.

Language Bases Disfluency

This is a disfluency that is attributed to the development of linguistic sophistication. The main root of the problem here would be language problems, which would require language based therapy rather than fluency-based therapy.

Mixed Fluency Failures

These are fluency failures that are characterized by overlapping causative factors. Speech pattern observed is the result of a blend of two or more factors/disfluency.

Cluttering

This is a condition that is related to fluency disorders. It is considered to be the extreme of stuttering. It is a disorder of timing and rhythm of speech where the person speaks too fast that his speech can’t be comprehended. The thing is, a clutterer isn’t aware that he is cluttering, while a stutterer is very much aware that he stutters.

Speech Therapy Assessment Tips For Fluency Disorders

During the assessment of an individual with suspected fluency disorder, there are some things to remember to make the assessment more comprehensive and useful. Here are some of those critical points to take note of during assessment.

Benefits Of Obtaining Both Reading and Conversation Sample

It is more beneficial to obtain both reading and conversation sample from school children and adults because this would give more reliability and credibility to the samples taken.

Since stuttering varies in different situations, a reading and conversation sample would allow the clinician to see the behaviors of the person in two different tasks. A conversational speech sample is likely to have more variability, while a reading passage would likely have less variability.

Information To Assess Motivation

Through interview, a therapist can learn a lot from his client. In fact, insight about the client’s motivation could be seen by asking the following questions like ”What do you believe caused you to stutter?”, “Has you stuttering changed or caused you more problems recently?, “Why did you come in for help at the present time?”, “ Are there times or situations when you stutter more? Less? What are they?”.

Benefits Of Continuing Evaluation

No individual could be understood in an hour or two; that’s why continuing of evaluation is recommended. The clinician might overlook an important element at times and some times a vital clue will not be present in the samples of behavior taken from the limited time of the evaluation period.

Note The Difference When Assessing Feelings and Attitudes

Assessing a school-age child’s feelings and attitudes would require the clinician to establish rapport and to get to know the child much better after some time, because the clinician’s judgment is also a fair measurement in the case of school-age children.

Talking to the child and observing his behaviors would be necessary. When the clinician has known the child much better, he could administer the A-19 Scale to the child. Other methods could also be used such as “Worry Ladder” and  “Hands Down” that could be found in the workbook, The School-Age Child Who Stutters: Working Effectively with Attitudes and Emotions.

For adults and adolescents assessment of feelings and attitudes are usually done by administering tools such as, the Modified Erickson Scale of Communication Attitudes, the Stutterer’s Self-Rating of Reactions to Speech Situations, the Perceptions of Stuttering Inventory and the Locus of Control of Behavior Scale.

Remember The Role Of The IEP Team

An Individualized Education Program (IEP) team is appointed to a child to be the ones to consider reports by the clinician and other information. They decide if the child meets the state’s eligibility standards and if the child’s stuttering has a negative effect on his education.

If a child is eligible for services measurable, the IEP team sets goals and short-term objectives for the child. They also provide services needed by the child for improvement in the educational setting.

Goals Of Trial Therapy

Trial therapy for a school-age child is done to understand what approach might work and what might be difficult for him. This could increase the child’s motivation and positive outlook for the treatment. In the case of adults and adolescents, trial therapy is done for 3 main reasons.

First, is to get an idea of how a client would respond to different therapy approaches. Second, is to make a differential diagnosis between developmental, neurological or psychological stuttering. Third, it gives a preview to the client of what to expect during therapy sessions, in effect it would give them motivation to go on their treatment.

Steve Cownley
http://allsortsofbits.comoj.com/

Steve Cownley
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/speech-therapy-an-overview-on-fluency-disorders-and-tips-on-how-to-deal-with-it-723013.html