1. 10 Important Things You Should Know About Stuttering Barbara L. Dahm SLP-CCC Board Recognized Specialist: Fluency Disorders www.stutteringonlinetherapy.com

2. What is stuttering How to treat it 3. 1 A malfunction of the system in the brain that generates speech 4. 2 2 Most of the components underlying the production of speech, I will argue, function in a highly automatic, reflex-like way. This automaticity makes it possible for them to work in parallel, which is a main condition for the generation of uninterrupted, fluent speech. Levelt, Nijmegen, 1988Normal speaking has to be an automatic activity. 5. Components working in parallelSPEECH 6. Stuttering IS trying to get words trying get word out out. sNon-existing process 7. 5 3 Control is the problem, not the solution. 8. Speech tools interfere with talking. 9. 4 4 Covert stuttering is just as real as perceived stuttering. 10. 6 5 Both trying to be fluent and to modify stuttering gets you 11. 4 6 Controlled processing causes physical and mental stress. 12. I cant speak fluently with others.Old self6 7 I love speaking without control.New selfChanging your process, requires changing your mind. 13. All parts of self need to change.ActionsThoughtsFeelings 14. 8 8 Successful therapy depends on which side of the coin you are looking at. 15. 9 9 Practice means: Awareness Experience New thoughts Acceptance Internalization 16. 10 Brains change in structure and function all our lives.