Articles On Stuttering

Articles chosen from many authors with the intention of offering you a lucid understanding of what stuttering really is.

Stuttering is more than an impediment of speech flow. Once children reach 6-7 years of age, nearly all of them begin developing cognitions (thoughts) and affect (feelings) about the stuttering. All adolescents to adults will have developed this.

Some have called this the “ABC’s of Stuttering”: Affect, Behaviors, and Cognitions. Hence, effective treatment will require a clinician wearing the hats of speech expert and counselor. Contributing authors are cited as appropriate. Enjoy the learnings and visit this site again for new postings.

By Tim Mackesey

Dunwoody Crier Newspaper Article

Stutterers are all around us. In fact, five million Americans stutter. Many hide their symptoms by [...]

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Fortnite and Stuttering Battle Royale

My old stuttering problem reminds me of the Battle Royale of Fortnite in several ways. [...]

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The Art of Recovery

One of the most difficult things for a person who stutters (PWS) is being able to recover after an embarrassing stuttering event. [...]

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Reactive or Proactive: How to Listen and Support

Did you know that the way you listen or react- verbally and nonverbally [...]

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When Attempted Solutions Become the Problem

How is it that people who stutter develop body movements [...]

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More than Meets the Eye Contact

Eye aversion, or intentional breaking of eye contact during moments of stuttering, is more than meets [...]

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IS=EB: Stuttering Inside & Out

Refers to the thoughts, feelings, and cognitive-linguistic workings that translate into [...]

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Freedom of Speech: How I Overcame Stuttering

It's the second week of my sophomore year in a college accounting class in Boca Raton, Florida [...]

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Straight Talk on Electronic Devices

The makers of the SpeechEasy (SE) have enjoyed a recent splash of free publicity by appearing on [...]

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What is Direct Treatment?

It is very common for me to evaluate and treat preschoolers who had been previously enrolled in [...]

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The King’s Speech - A Movie Review

The King’s Speech is a must see movie. King George VI, with a severe stammer, was forced to make an [...]

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Teaching an Actor to Stutter

My phone rang recently and I was asked if wanted to teach a professional actress to stutter for a role in a play. [...]

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Purpose, Intention, and Stuttering

Concealing and avoiding stuttering was once the most important thing in the world to me. [...]

Tim Mackesey

Children's Success Stories

Adult Success Stories

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Understanding the Speech Block

At the heart of chronic stuttering -- specifically, the kind of dysfluency that ties you up so you [...]

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How Beliefs and Self-image Can Influence Stuttering

Although [he] began stuttering during early childhood [...]

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Stuttering as A Variant of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

In our work on experiential therapy for stutterers, we have been impressed by [...]

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Relapse: A Misnomer

Any clinician who has worked extensively with adult stutterers has encountered the problem we call relapse, the tendency for [...]

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And The Stuttering Just Dies

The following article first appeared in the National Stuttering Project monthly newsletter [...]

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NLP Defined

NLP is an attitude and a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques. Let us tell you a story about magic. [...]

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Battling with Symptoms Or Changing the Frameworks?

The easiest thing in the world is to get into a fight with symptoms. [...]

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The Stress Fight/Flight/Freeze Pattern

What is the Fight/Flight or General Arousal Syndrome? How is this neuro? [...]

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Developing a New Paradigm for Stuttering

There's a familiar brain teaser that involves a square comprised of nine dots made up of three rows [...]

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Personal Change

For the past ten years I have poured my life into learning NLP and applying it in the therapeutic, teaching and writing world. [...]

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Neuro-Semantics

We first introduced the new cutting-edge field of Neuro-Semantics in our bookMind-Lines: Lines that Change Minds (1997). Since then [...]

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The Brain Game

How Do We Run Our Own Brain? So you want to run your own brain? Good for you. What a wonderful objective! And so rare. [...]

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Introduction To The MetaStates Model®

Suppose I offered you a way by which you could learn to "run your own brain" so that you could develop [...]

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Stuttering Metaphors

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