Revolutionizing How We Understand & Treat Stuttering: Edition 1: Launching a New Approach
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Author(s)Matthew O'Malley
ISBN / ASINB07F2PM955
ISBN-13978B07F2PM951
Sales Rank1,746,372
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Introduction:
Have you ever asked yourself, “Isn’t there someone who has sat down and looked at all the characteristics of stuttering and figured out what’s going on?”
“Isn’t there some researcher somewhere who has put all of these puzzling pieces together to explain stuttering?”
“Isn’t there someone who has come to understand stuttering’s nature and figured out a good way to treat it?”
After all, even the lay observer is intrigued by it and has a sense that this enigma is solve-able. You’d think it would be solved by now.
“Why do people not stutter in some situations and stutter significantly in others?”
“Why is it that a person who stutters can block on a word for a few seconds and then the word all of a sudden comes out? What changed?!”
If you have asked these questions or ones similar, then we have something in common. I also asked them a number of years ago and there was seemingly nowhere to turn for satisfactory answers. I had sought out the world’s leading experts on the subject, sought treatment for my own stuttering and was disappointed with both the answers and the results. I simply wanted sensible explanations and reasonably effective treatment for stuttering and, had I received it, would have walked away from the world of stuttering and never looked back.
That’s not what happened though.
After seeking these answers and receiving various treatments, I was still stuttering and was still mystified by it. Its accompanying struggles had consumed my life for many years up to that point. The fact that I could not find a reasonable remedy to deal with my stuttering lead me through some very challenging times in life. I decided since stuttering was already consuming my life, why not make use of that.
In my asking the question “Isn’t there someone out there who has figured out stuttering and put all the pieces together?” I had received my answer. The answer was “No”. So instead of continuing to ask that same question, I started asking a new one. “Why not me?”
In answering this new question, I decided to use my life to serve this cause; to answer these questions. My inability to resolve my stuttering earlier in my life had caused many challenging times. It is part of the human journey I have been on; a human journey that involves significant pain and suffering. While I believe suffering is inherently purposeful, I also hope to transform my own into purpose by giving to this cause. I consider myself humbly in service to those who have asked or one day will ask these same questions. I hope to serve well.
Since dedicating to this path about five years ago, I have graduated cum laude with a degree in speech-language pathology. I have also worked as a developmental therapist treating speech and language delays. Most importantly however, I have stayed passionately curious and deeply motivated to answer the above questions and have been in the trenches doing just that. Fortunately, I believe this process is bearing fruit.
…
The initial point of this entire journey to understand stuttering was to get to a place of effective treatment based on a real understanding of the nature of the stuttering condition. Throughout this process I have kept my eye on that ball (treatment). The first part of that process was gaining a sufficient understanding of stuttering as one needs an understanding of a condition to to design effective treatment. Up to this point, working to understand stuttering’s nature has consumed the vast majority of my work. However, within this article/guide for the first time, I dive deeply into treatment design as I have reached a sufficient understanding of stuttering’s nature to do so.
Within this guide, you will find brief summaries of the above mentioned understanding of stuttering’s nature. However, links will also be provided to the full articles explaining this understanding of its nature linearly and in much more detail....
Have you ever asked yourself, “Isn’t there someone who has sat down and looked at all the characteristics of stuttering and figured out what’s going on?”
“Isn’t there some researcher somewhere who has put all of these puzzling pieces together to explain stuttering?”
“Isn’t there someone who has come to understand stuttering’s nature and figured out a good way to treat it?”
After all, even the lay observer is intrigued by it and has a sense that this enigma is solve-able. You’d think it would be solved by now.
“Why do people not stutter in some situations and stutter significantly in others?”
“Why is it that a person who stutters can block on a word for a few seconds and then the word all of a sudden comes out? What changed?!”
If you have asked these questions or ones similar, then we have something in common. I also asked them a number of years ago and there was seemingly nowhere to turn for satisfactory answers. I had sought out the world’s leading experts on the subject, sought treatment for my own stuttering and was disappointed with both the answers and the results. I simply wanted sensible explanations and reasonably effective treatment for stuttering and, had I received it, would have walked away from the world of stuttering and never looked back.
That’s not what happened though.
After seeking these answers and receiving various treatments, I was still stuttering and was still mystified by it. Its accompanying struggles had consumed my life for many years up to that point. The fact that I could not find a reasonable remedy to deal with my stuttering lead me through some very challenging times in life. I decided since stuttering was already consuming my life, why not make use of that.
In my asking the question “Isn’t there someone out there who has figured out stuttering and put all the pieces together?” I had received my answer. The answer was “No”. So instead of continuing to ask that same question, I started asking a new one. “Why not me?”
In answering this new question, I decided to use my life to serve this cause; to answer these questions. My inability to resolve my stuttering earlier in my life had caused many challenging times. It is part of the human journey I have been on; a human journey that involves significant pain and suffering. While I believe suffering is inherently purposeful, I also hope to transform my own into purpose by giving to this cause. I consider myself humbly in service to those who have asked or one day will ask these same questions. I hope to serve well.
Since dedicating to this path about five years ago, I have graduated cum laude with a degree in speech-language pathology. I have also worked as a developmental therapist treating speech and language delays. Most importantly however, I have stayed passionately curious and deeply motivated to answer the above questions and have been in the trenches doing just that. Fortunately, I believe this process is bearing fruit.
…
The initial point of this entire journey to understand stuttering was to get to a place of effective treatment based on a real understanding of the nature of the stuttering condition. Throughout this process I have kept my eye on that ball (treatment). The first part of that process was gaining a sufficient understanding of stuttering as one needs an understanding of a condition to to design effective treatment. Up to this point, working to understand stuttering’s nature has consumed the vast majority of my work. However, within this article/guide for the first time, I dive deeply into treatment design as I have reached a sufficient understanding of stuttering’s nature to do so.
Within this guide, you will find brief summaries of the above mentioned understanding of stuttering’s nature. However, links will also be provided to the full articles explaining this understanding of its nature linearly and in much more detail....
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