SLP – Every Waking Moment

A Plea from the ‘Counted’: In Support of SpeechIRL

By ewmoment

We who stutter need more speech-language pathologists with the courage and blunt honesty like what SpeechIRL demonstrated in their new article, “Just Stop with the Damn Disfluency Counts.” The pseudo-anonymous, united approach of this call-to-arms by SpeechIRL is commendable, and perhaps a foundation for a wider proactive movement—not just a discussion—to confront this aged-out stutter-counting practice. And that is how

Posted in: Change, Counted, Courage, Disfluency, Evaluations, Fear, OASES, SLP, Speech Therapy, Stuttering, Trauma

Change Propellers Stuttering

Please, Just This Once

By ewmoment

At thirteen-years old, I attended a month long intensive fluency clinic to fix my severe stutter. If I didn’t do well, I would stutter forever. I didn’t do well. Fast forward eighteen years to a moment when I was answering questions as part of a talk I gave at the National Stuttering Association’s (NSA) annual conference. “Why do most people who

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A Plea from the ‘Counted’: In Support of SpeechIRL

Please, Just This Once