When discussing assessment and support for autism spectrum disorder, much of the focus tends to be on younger children. However, the demand is growing for help transitioning older students to independent, successful living.What happens when…
What is stigma, and why is it so important in stuttering therapy?Public stigma is what society believes about and how they act toward a particular group of people. This includes stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Self-stigma…
Many people have questions about the causes behind their own or their child’s stutter. While the causes of stuttering have been hotly debated, we are converging on a recently updated multifactorial dynamic pathways model.…
Stuttering can be confusing. It’s often associated with a range of disfluencies, such as prolongations, repetitions, and blocks. But in some cases, these surface-level disfluencies may not always be present.Researchers Eric Jackson, Robert Quesal, and J…
Stuttering is one of the hardest disorders to treat because it’s more than just disfluency. Speech-language pathologists often break stuttering into three parts, or the “ABC’s”:Affective Components – The feelings and emotions that accompany stuttering.Behavioral…
