Treatment
The Center for Hearing & Speech offers personalized treatment for individuals who stutter. Treatment is available for anyone 3 years of age and older.
Therapy utilizes three strategies: easy onset; stuttering modification; and improving self-esteem.
Easy Onset
Easy onset is a technique that focuses on the coordination of breathing, voice
and other speech movements to obtain an “easy” beginning of a word
or a sentence.
Therapy involves modeling easy and relaxed speech and having the person who stutters begin to use this easy, or s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d, onset. Treatment begins at the word level and then progresses to using “easy speech” in sentences, conversation, and transfer activities.
Stuttering Modification
Stuttering modification teaches the client to reduce tension and to “stutter
fluently.”
Improving Self-Esteem
It is very important for people who stutter to have every opportunity for positive
experiences, especially with respect to their speech. Therapy is structured to
provide children and adults with as many opportunities as possible to experience
success and feel good about themselves as communicators.
