Short-Term Stuttering Therapy

Words Are Wings® Stuttering Solutions™ is for stutterers whose quality of life is intact by actively adhering to a particular fluency-shaping program or methodology looking to fine-tune their existing fluency-shaping techniques or perhaps add an additional technique to their existing fluency toolbox.  The client’s overall speech mechanics are sound yet perhaps in need of a little fine-tuning (just like a motor that runs yet could use a little tune-up.)

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Words Are Wings® Stuttering Solutions™ is also for stutterers who stutter openly and proudly, are comfortable with how their speech mechanics are presently functioning yet may still be looking for a technique to have at their disposal during those more difficult stuttering episodes (just in case.)

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Each hour-long Words Are Wings® Stuttering Solutions™ session is $100 per hour.  This includes customized practice regimens and tools re: the target technique as well as communication with me between sessions if you want to make sure you’re practicing correctly or have any questions about the target technique.  It is encouraged that clients reach out with any questions or concerns so that their practice between formal sessions in done correctly.

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A target technique may include any of the following:

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• Diaphragmatic breathing

• Passive airflow

• Speech initiation

• Coordination of breathing and speech initiation

• Connected speech

• Light articulatory contact

• Easy onsets

• Sustained airflow during speech

• Speaking volume

• Speaking softness

• Speaking velocity

• Optimizing external device usage

• Other

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These are the components of our speech mechanics as speakers, whether a stutterer or non-stutterer, that must work together in order to produce fluent, intelligible speech.  They address the mechanics of speech which are faulty and subsequently become interrupted in the voices of stutterers.  This is evidenced by the answer to the following question:

 

is it that you, as a stutterer, don’t know what it is you want to say, or, do you know exactly what you want to say but

physically/mechanically cannot say it at the precise moment in time that you want to?

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Daily proactivity and practice compliance are paramount between sessions to increase success probability and sustain gains.

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Typically…one technique is targeted in a Words Are Wings® Stuttering Solutions™ Short-term approach hence why the process is session by session as this approach is for clients who should need a long duration of therapy.

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For certain clients, it may be determined that more than one target technique is needed.  Should a second technique be needed to compliment the stutterer’s initial target goal a session-by-session approach could still be warranted; however, if it is determined that more than one or two techniques are needed then the Words Are Wings™ Fluency Flier Academy™ Long-term, comprehensive approach would be recommended as needing multiple techniques indicates the need to break things down and rebuild from the ground-up in terms of the client’s speech mechanics.  Like an athlete or a musician who didn’t learn the proper mechanics or theory early-on, their habits need to be unlearned so that the proper training occur which increase the likelihood of better performance and results.

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If you’re a stutterer interested in Words Are Wings® Stuttering Solutions™ short-term, session-by-session approach please contact me today via any of the following:

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Phone: 917-887-4716 (AZ MST 10:00 am – 6:00 pm for calls, 24/7 for texting)
Email: micelispeech@gmail.com (24/7)
Linked-In: linkedin.com/in/andrew-miceli (24/7)

(As I answer all correspondences personally, kindly allow one to two business days for a response.)