Specialist Stuttering Services

I have been specialising in stuttering and supporting children and adults who stutter for the past 3 years.

I am trained in delivering a variety of programmes for early childhood stuttering, including:

• Lidcombe Programme
• Palin PCI
• RESTART DCM
• Syllable Timed Speech.

I draw on all of these programmes to support young children and their families.

Stuttering is a multi-factorial speech difference that, over time, often develops an internalised/ psychological component. This can, if unaddressed, become more impactful for the person who stutters than the dysfluencies they experience in their speech.

Therapy for older children and adults does not always mean ‘making fluent’. Dysfluency itself should not hold someone back from achieving all the things they want to achieve in their life.

I can support people to be more fluent using fluency shaping and speech modification techniques. But I can also help people learn to manage their stuttering through desensitisation approaches as well as challenging unhelpful thoughts and ingrained negative stereotypes that are holding them back from doing what they want to do and what they want to be.

Each person’s therapy journey in stuttering therapy will be different. Working alongside the person who stutters, I aim to help them navigate their journey to the outcome they ultimately want.