Incorporating feedback from school-age clients who stutter, we’re happy to release our stutter-affirming initial consultation pack designed to support other speech-language pathologists to deliver stutter-affirming care to school-age children and teenagers from the get-go.
This no-prep 43-page pack includes:
aYou and Me conversation scaffold to get to know the whole client, including strengths, interests, and goals, based on the F-Word Framework (aligned with the ICF);
explicit recognition of stuttering as normal and natural;
an open discussion of some of the real world barriers experienced by school-age children who stutter, why discrimination is unacceptable, and why avoidance and concealment strategies aren’t the long-term answer;
optional, untimed functional speech tasks– a stutter-counter free zone! – including reading, story-retelling, verbal problem solving, and dual motor tasks designed to emulate real world speaking demands, as well as an observation recording sheet;
astuttering and fluency wellness snapshotfor clients to self-report how they feel about their speech over time; and
lots of opportunities to ask and answer questions about stuttering.
