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Hey guys! Sociology major here and fellow stutterer hoping for some help with a research project.

Hey guys! Sociology major here and fellow stutterer hoping for some help with a research project. I'm trying to research whether stutterers who received speech therapy through the public school system...

Looking to Interview Someone who Stutters

Looking to Interview Someone who Stutters For a research project for my graduate program in speech language pathology I need to interview someone over Skype who has not received speech therapy for stu...

Thanks! I dont need them to make change or even be ready for that, but I think there's a lot out there that they dont even know exists. I didn't really care to look when I thought controls and techniq...

I met her at the Oxford Disfluency Conference. or an ASHA, I really don't remember, lol...

Seldom told truths about stuttering and therapy

Seldom told truths about stuttering and therapy Hi everyone, Stuttertalk just had a 5 session series with a brilliant SLP by the name of Vivian Sisskin. Throughout the series they talk about a lot of ...

Learning a different language helps people who stutter?

Learning a different language helps people who stutter? When I went to speach therapist yeara and years back one thing that stuck in my head was people who learnt a different language lost there stutt...

Very true. Not sure if you listen to them or not but Stuttertalk (B Team) just talked about this in episode 501. Pretty good listen if you're up for it. ...

For more crazy, look into what researchers have previously believed to cause stuttering. Sexual tension, Oedipal complex, everything. ...

That's hilarious! thanks for sharing. Yeah there were all sorts of crazy therapies. Silence/whisper therapy was another. We're still not there yet but we're moving a lot closer. And I believe we're se...

Man, I don't know what it was about stuttering specifically, but it pulled out some crazy treatment ideas. Van Riper was/is a really big deal because he was one of the first researchers in the field o...

I hope i'm not coming off as a doomsday sayer. There are several people who have very and emotional reactions to this. and they're being far too reactionary. I'm just confused why SPA is making one ...

I think Pang's position is much less alarmist than other commentary. It's pretty close to my personal view. I hope you can see there's some differences with how he's framed it? Particularly about it b...

Voon Pang wrote a piece on the [stuttering foundation's blog](http://www.stutteringhelp.org/blog/problem-one-size-fits-all) sums up my lingering fears about this. (He's from Perth and practices in Auc...

I'd love to type out a lengthy reply here but I have a 2 month old baby who needs my attention! Have you read [SPA's statement](http://www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/all-latest-news/1997-budget-s...

By making Lidcombe the only reimbursable therapy for preschoolers who stutter they are effectively saying that Lidcombe should work for all preschoolers who stutter. They are not directly saying it, ...

The Australian government actually hasn't done anything here. No services are being restricted. SPA is not saying that Lidcombe works for everyone....

Causes of Stuttering Examined In Research First of its Kind

Causes of Stuttering Examined In Research First of its Kind ...

Thanks for posting this. This is a very odd situation indeed. I'd like to also encourage /r/stutter to support this petition. It will only be stronger for PWS to sign on. I've signed on and left my ...

Hey i'm just curious, who are these ASHA board slps?...

More e-books: Advice to those who stutter: http://www.stutteringhelp.org/sites/default/files/Migrate/book0009_may2010.pdf Therapy for the severe older stutterer : http://www.journalofstuttering.com/3...