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10
Important Things You Should
Know About Stuttering
Barbara L. Dahm SLP-CCC
Board Recognized Specialist: Fluency Disorders
www.stutteringonlinetherapy.com
What is
stuttering
How to treat it
1
A malfunction
of the system
in the brain
that
generates
speech
2
2
“Most of the components underlying the production of
speech, I will argue, function in a highly automatic,
reflex-like way. This automaticity makes it possible for
them to work in parallel, which is a main condition for
the generation of uninterrupted, fluent speech.”
Levelt, Nijmegen, 1988

Normal
speaking
has to be an
automatic
activity.
Components
working in
parallel

SPEECH
Stuttering IS trying to get words
trying get word out
out.
s

Non-existing process
5
3
Control is the
problem, not
the solution.
Speech tools interfere with
talking.
4
4
Covert
stuttering
is just as real
as perceived
stuttering.
6
5
Both trying
to be fluent
and to
modify
stuttering
gets you
4
6
Controlled
processing
causes
physical and
mental stress.
I can’t speak
fluently with
others.

Old self

6
7

�
I love speaking
without control.

�

New self

Changing your
process,
requires
changing your
mind.
All parts of self
need to change.

Actions

Thoughts

Feelings
8
8
Successful
therapy
depends on
which side of
the coin you
are looking at.
9
9
Practice
means:
•
•
•
•
•

Awareness
Experience
New thoughts
Acceptance
Internalization
10
Brains
change in
structure
and
function all
our lives.

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