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>There’s no “cure” because stuttering isn’t a disease — but it *can* be managed. Just to have a counter points here: * I think just labeling stuttering as "not a disease" not really helpful. It st...

I have previously thoroughly enjoyed your writings, on many levels. 😀 I think we generally agree but I feel strongly about differentiating between primary and secondary stuttering bxs. I think th...

I understand what you’re saying, but Like I said, it sounds like you have been reacting to your stuttering with a lot of tension. I wouldn’t just brush that aside. Our job as SLPs is to reduce struggl...

You are misunderstanding me. A lot. 1. Wanting something to be a certain way does not make it that way. 2. How did you determine I was mad? Was it *my tone*? (Which I used only to illustrate a ...

Tone is so important, you even include tone-indicators in your typed message. I never said stuttering can be cured, so nit sure why you would randomly mention that. SEE!! HOW!!! IMPACTFUL TONE IS!!...

I’m an SLP! I’m very aware of what SLPs work on 😁 obviously, if one of my clients is really struggling to speak because of tension, blocks, secondary behaviors, etc, that’s something we would work on...

It shouldn’t matter?? Again, tone, timing and cadence are very important parts of human communication, to the degree that SLP’s even work with children on those issues. This has nothing to do with b...

I’ve have extreme dislike for every SLP I had because they treated my dysfluency like an articulation disorder, and I left treatment more ashamed than when I began. Please learn about the emotional a...

I share my document about stuttering recovery/remission. Why curing stuttering is bad, and why we should talk about stuttering remission instead

I share my document about stuttering recovery/remission. Why curing stuttering is bad, and why we should talk about stuttering remission instead I recently came across a post asking about a *stutteri...

Typical Stuttering is the brain's inability to adequately process the speaker's normal voice as they speak. The brain dysfunction is the cause and the stuttering is the effect. Standard stuttering th...

I agree that it's up to everyone to choose for themselves. Identity is a complicated construct, psychology emphasizes it as a self-concept, so it never made much sense to me when other people try and...

Parents treat stuttering like some boogyman where if they don't acknowledge it it doesn't exist. The main message for your nephew, and even more so for his parents is that stuttering doesn't have to b...

>*"Here is a link to her completed thesis for download."* Woaw this is really interesting! I've copied the **Summary** below for anyone who wants to read it. **Abstract:** Stuttering is commonly de...

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Question? Is it a misconception that stutterers voluntarily made themselves stutter to cope with trauma at a young age and is just stuck that way my family believes all stutters are either genetic o...

Many kids go through a phase. Most recover. Instilling a healthy attitude about it that stuttering isn't bad, it's just difference will help it not become develop into a pathology. ...

Think you are not understanding. Someone can be disabled by dysfluency (to the degree of having SI) , but rarely “sound” like they are stuttering. Also, someone can speak with frequent repetitions...

I feel like you’re just arguing semantics in an effort to out group Musk.  If a parent comes to you with someone like a teenage Musk and asks to help them then sure you’d say “actually they don’t stu...

As a Speech-Language Pathologist who is also a person who stutters I am going by the clinical definition and diagnosis. There are people who are disfluent that I do NOT diagnose as stutterers. I...

Again, there is a clinical diagnosis of stuttering that has to meet certain criteria. He is disfluent, absolutely, but he does not have the diagnosis of being a person who stutters. Disfluency DOE...

There is a big difference between regular disfluencies and stutter like disfluencies. Musk has never identified as a person who stutters. Musk has disfluencies, yes, but he is not a person who stut...