“…now you’ve got the tools so off you go.”

Mary, mom to Seamus, age 17 Mary found the most useful part of professional intervention was the parent workshops. “The ‘fix- it’ therapy created more problems—harder problems that the stammering.” “Seamus got up one day and he couldn’t speak. I did a double...

“We wanted to exhaust every option… ”

A new Voice Unearthed blog post, “We wanted to exhaust every option… ” is from a series of interviews that shaped the narrative of my next book, VoiceS Unearthed: The Impact of Early Intervention on Those Who Continue to Stutter. (Names of interviewees have...

“I thought this speech therapist was crazy.”

24-year-old Charles: All his life, Charles had been told to hide his stutter. This crazy therapist told him to stop using tricks and openly stutter. Now he says, “I do presentations. I stutter. I have no fear of stuttering. Nobody is laughing.” “I started...

“Our goal was wanting him to feel confident speaking”

Eliza, mom to 10-year-old Marcus “As an educator, I developed a social emotional learning survey and had our son take it. It was heartbreaking – how little confidence he had in himself as a communicator.” “One day our son had woken up at 4 a.m. and consequently was...