by Anna Dubiak, M.S, CCC-SLP Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC Stuttering can cause a lot of big feelings in individuals who stutter as well as the parents of a stuttering child. One crucial part of stuttering therapy for these cases can be adding in desensitization. Often we are afraid to name problems we or our...
Bethany Barber, M.A., CCC-SLP Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC If you were a fly on the wall during my sessions with fluency clients, the first few minutes might look more like I’m leading a preschool physical education class, or a mommy and me yoga hour than a speech therapy session. You’d witness silly dancing, “animal”...
By Hannah Blackwell, M.A., CF-SLP Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC Have you ever seen a picture of an iceberg? It floats on the water as this giant chunk of ice. There’s no denying that what you see of an iceberg above the water is huge, but below the waterline looms an even larger mountain of...
This week, we are are so lucky to have Shelagh Orlikowski, the DLST Graduate Intern, here to talk with us about stuttering. When SLPs determine that a child has a fluency disorder (our term for stuttering), one of the first questions parents ask us is, “Will this go away?” As Shelagh explains, it is complicated....
Children can go through periods of disfluency, or stuttering, when they’re developing new vocabulary or language skills. This is called developmental stuttering. Thus, many medical professionals, some SLPs included, opt for a “wait and see” approach. It is often recommended that parents monitor their child’s speech for 6 months after they notice suspected stuttering and then seek an evaluation and interventions. I guess I can understand this. I’m a panic-er by nature. Sometimes I need to take a step back and evaluate situations before I act because if I acted on everything I panicked about, I basically would be at my doctor’s office everyday!
But, hm.
So, how do you know if it’s time to seek services for a “true” stutter? For me, there are a few signs of stuttering of which parents should be aware.
So, how do you know if it’s time to seek services? For me, there are a few signs of stuttering of which parents should be aware.