by Dori | Apr 10, 2018 | Blog
Dear speech therapists, Many of you are supportive of the Voice Unearthed perspective and are onboard with the focus on keeping kids talking rather than fixing their speech. For this reason, you express concern when you see the Voice Unearthed message possibly turning...
by Dori | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog
Dear parents: The following list of questions to ask speech therapists is inspired by the Voice Unearthed perspective of focusing therapy on keeping kids talking and engaged in the world around them rather than eliminating the stutter/fixing their speech. Thank you to...
by Dori | Jan 12, 2018 | Blog
Matthew O’Malley’s “The O’Malley Stuttering Self-Treatment Guide” is not meant for children, but I do believe it holds a perspective that can be helpful to parents. Below is a chart he shares that reveals a lot about the reality of speech therapy: (Zebrowski, 2008)...
by Dori | Dec 10, 2017 | Blog
This is the third in a series of six blog posts in response to the series of StutterTalk podcasts focusing on whether SLPs should treat people who stutter. Episode 631 features Jim McClure, a person who stutters and a former consumer member of the American Board of...
by Dori | Nov 9, 2017 | Blog
This is my second blog posting in response to Stuttertalk Podcast #2 (episode 630) in a series of six podcasts asking the question “Should SLPs treat stuttering?”. Host Peter Reitzes interviews Rodney Gabel, a professor at the University of Toledo, speech-language...
