Stuttering Solutions Atlanta
Apr 29, 2020
Eye contact and eye aversion: A deeper understanding
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What is the positive intention of looking away during stuttering and why is reframing that habit an essential goal in therapy?
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Mar 12, 2023
Time-Line Therapy: Why We Need It
People who stutter (PWS) develop fear and avoidance habits. Unless we know how to help a pws with reducing fear and anxiety, we are not providing holistic therapy. An embarrassing moment of stuttering or avoiding talking is "stored to the hard drive"- it is consolidated, and it can be reconsolidated later. You can actually feel an old memory in your soma! As Starkweather and Givens write, stuttering is a variant of PTSD (see below). Anxiety and fear is the biggest obstacle for pws and graduate programs don't train students in CBT. Time-Line therapy is special sauce in providing CBT for pws. Disclosure and acceptance are essential but they take a long time. What if you could run an antivirus scan in your brain and quarantine files of toxic memories, beliefs, and malware thoughts? Caveat: as the wikipedia article states, you must be skilled in the delivery of this therapy.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_memories#:~:text=Traumatic%20memories%20are%20formed%20after,hours%20after%20the%20initial%20experience.
https://www.stuttering-specialist.com/post/stuttering-as-a-variant-of-post-traumatic-stress-disorder
Books:
Time Line Therapy and The Basis of Personality. James and Woodsmall
Adventures with Time Lines. Bodenhamer & Hall
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Mar 1, 2023
Serving Bilingual Children Who Stutter - Interview
For a long time, bilingual families were told to discard their native language and to only use English. Many practitioners and clinicians force English on their clients and patients during appointments. Ana Paula G. Souza Mumy and John Gomez join Tim for an interview. Ana Paula's research was recently published and a link to the article will be seen at the bottom of this paragraph. The title of the article is Culturally Responsive Guidelines for Serving Families of Bilingual Children Who Stutter. A few key take aways are: bilingualism does not increase the risk of stuttering, children can endure "code switching" as two languages are used simultaneously, clinicians want to allow the language of the parent to be used in the clinic or the office, and that language choice is about relationship and connection. John Gomez is the director of When I Stutter (keeneyeproductions.com). Ana Paula translated the movie into Portugese, her native language. John is an SLP working in Los Angeles, California and he serves a very diverse community with a heavily bilingual population. As America become more and more bilingual, this is eye opening and ground breaking work by Ana Paula.
Link here:
https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2022_PERSP-21-00235
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Jan 26, 2023
Jeff Ingram Interview- retired sales executive 15 years after speech therapy
Listen as Jeff tells you about his milestones that led to a highly successful career in sales. In retirement, Jeff is a non-stop volunteer and a minister to those in need. Jeff describes his several attempts at speech therapy before we met and he found what was missing: cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Strategies from NLP and time-line therapy were essential in reducing his anxiety and unleashing his inner voice.
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