Stuttering can be impairing at any age. If you or your child stutters, it can affect every aspect of life and come with emotional effects, behavioral avoidances and changes in thought patterns or self-view. Perhaps you've been able to "get by" with your stutter up to this point, but maybe the stuttering gets in the way of presentations, work duties, or social activities as an adult. We take an approach where we look at the "Iceberg of Stuttering" to target not just getting "perfect" speech, which is often an impossible goal that leads to frustration, but to give tools for more smooth and easier speech while targeting the emotional, behavioral, and thought changes that come about with stuttering. 

If you or someone you know stutters you may know that stuttering comes with the following symptoms below.

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• Repetition of initial sounds of words, blocks, or unintended prolongations of words 

• Emotions such as embarrassment, shame, anger, frustration, or sadness surrounding stuttering

• Thought patterns such as thinking about what others are thinking when you speak, thinking more about the process of speech than what you want to say

• Changes in how you view yourself

• Negative thoughts about yourself or how you present to others

• Word switching (or even switching your name) to get around a stutter

• Avoiding certain situations, people, or places to avoid stuttering

• You may hide your stutter from others or have not accepted the fact that you have a stutter

• Secondary behaviors such as eye twitching, tapping, other odd body movements

• You may wish for your speech to be "normal" and for your stutter to disappear