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June 30, 2016

The Control Illusion

Have you thought to yourself, “If only I could control my speech, I would be able to speak fluently”? Maybe a well-meaning SLP told you to work hard to develop speech controls. Whether the idea came from you or was […]
June 30, 2016

“Speaking is now fun rather than something to be avoided”

I have been watching a chat in which some people who stutter expressed the feeling that it is better to stutter than to use strategies to control stuttering. That is very understandable. They don’t want to work to control stuttering. […]
June 30, 2016

Automating Articulation: From vocal vibration to flowing speech

I have written a lot about how people who stutter think too much about words and how to say them. Most people who stutter or stuttered any time during their life knowthat when they stop trying to anticipate what they are going to […]
June 30, 2016

Free to Speak Freely

I recently had an opportunity to be interviewed by Pam Mertz on her podcast Women Who Stutter: Our Stories. I particularly liked the title she gave to the episode, Free To Speak Freely. It is the essence of what I know […]