HELP WITH STUTTERING FOR KIDS AND ADULTS: At Home Speedy Speech Therapy Stuttering Exercises

Kelli Meyer, M.Ed. CCC-SLP Certified & Licensed Speech Language Pathologist

This video is to help reduce dysfluent speech patterns for children, teens and adults who stutter.

Types of stutters:
Block- hard time getting a word out
interjections - um, and
word repetition - repeating the same word over and over again
phrase repetitions - "and then, and then, and then we"

#1) reduce distractions - increase eye contact
#2) melodic intonation - use rhythmic speaking patterns
#3) easy onset - ease into words instead of creating a "hard start"
#4) understanding the difference between "smooth" and "bumpy" speech

**REGULAR SPEECH HAS MILD DYSFLUENCIES**

Remember, repetition is key!

Taking requests below in the comments!

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[CrissyMack]

Instant results for my 4 year old. It brought me to tears. As long as we clap it out, he does not stutter. Thank you so much!

[dawnut]

I don't stutter when i talk to myself or sing or when im reading something, i only stutter when i talk to people

[Jikiface]

Very helpful and informative!
I'm 26 and I've had a stammer/stutter my entire life. Oddly enough, it's been getting worse as I get older. I don't fully know why. But I'm looking around on YouTube and practicing different exercises to help myself gain better control. Thank you for this video!

[Nicole-hwlx]

I have a kid with apraxia and I want you to know you’ve been helping us soo much! I appreciate you more then you know!❤️❤️

[susyrodriguez]

Thank you so much for making this video!! My 5 year old has had a stuttering problem on and off and I have been noticing it becoming more of a problem. I’ve been making sure I give her my complete attention but it still has been hard on her. Tomorrow I will begin to implement these techniques and also share with my husband so we can both be on board with this. Thanks again and God bless you!!🙏🏽

[nikahopper]

I have been searching for a videos like this for so long!! My son has a very mild
stutter and he’s 18 and nervous leaving school and being out in the world.

[stefanymalvarez]

You're a super speech therapist! Thanks for helping us to help our little ones. ❤️

[adamkrol]

🙏 thank you. The rhythm makes so much sense. When I start stuttering, I’ll pause and get angry. Then scream what I wanted to say, and it comes out perfect. Weird

[raquanwhite]

I’m 20 and I suffer from Speech Block. This video was very helpful as I prepare for more professional interviews

[malkerbino]

Am every happy for your advice you give me good procedure about Stammering I will never forget that in my sister, God be with you all the time.

[extralove]

My boy is 4.5 yrs old, he started stuttering 3 months ago after being normal. Our SLP rated his stuttering somewhere between mild and severe. The child being aware of his sudden change in speech (and sometimes nervous) She advised us with the smooth and bumpy technique of which I was hesitant to start with under the notion of not to bring the attention of the child to it. But given the age of the child (3.5+ yrs) and daddy being a stutterer himself, the risk factor was high to not out grow his stuttering and converts to persistent stutterer.

Weighing the odds, I decided to start the Smooth-Bumpy, and to my surprise! The child started to improve immediately! It seemed like the child overcame his feeling of “guilt” being unable to talk normally and understood it’s ok to be bumpy! This relieved him a lot and from there he started controlling his speech and using the techniques mentioned in this video (rhythm, easy onset, easy word prolongation) in order to get the word smooth out his mouth, which then he gets praised by us. He’s doing great, he regained his normal pitch (after being lowering it intentionally to hide his stutter) as well as regained 75% of fluency. We are still working with him to achieve full recovery however, most important, we know we are on the right track!
Remember, comment his bumpy speech but show it as info not as a blame or being something wrong, then ask the child to repeat his statement using the techniques, then once he says it smooth he gets a lot of praise. Parents praise is the therapy!

[randallscott]

As a Clinical Hypnotherapist I have found from my research, that stuttering is caused by a traumatic event, between the ages of 2-7. the cause is anything from a dog barking in a child's face, to a child seeing some one get shot! this is the spectrum that I have worked with. So when you put someone into hypnosis you go back to the first time they started to stutter. The subconious remembers everything. Then we do forgiveness and let the memory go from the body. Now when you understand how the mind and body work together, you can go back to the memory, and there is no more emotion attached, . that is when the stutter lets go. And becomes the cure. Good luck in the future. If you have any questions please let me know. Thank you for you time.

[amrithamehta]

Thank you so much for posting this. We’ve been working on stuttering with my 5 year old. We just tried the signing words approach and it’s immediately helping him relax and get his words out

[haric]

Hi Ma'am
I'm a Speech Language Pathologist. I used to watch videos related to this area..and believe me..your presentations are very informative and to the point. Let your services reach out more n more needy people 🙂 WaY tO gO SpeedySpeech 👏

[andrewlynch-tf]

wonderful tips, thank you! I found your other video helpful. never heard about planning speech as useful...in fact I've experimented with the opposite because spontaneity tricks the brain (ego)

[Adedoyin_Ogbiye]

That rhythmic approach!!! I am a 28 year old woman and I discovered a few years back that I speak more fluently when there's music or a beat playing in the background. But when that music or beat is gone, I'm back to my struggle. I'm still trying to discover how to implement that rythmic approach even when there's no audible beat. I've always been in the choir and I know quite a few stutterers who sing perfectly. That's one mystery...

[playwinboxingchannel]

These are some very good tips I will try with my son.

[deezombiedude]

I currently teach at a college, and stuttering has always been a big impediment for me. I'll try practice these tips as I go, thank you so much!! 😊

[kim]

Not just you are beautiful ❤️ you are really helpful 😊

[brittkneee]

Thank you! Trying this with my 4 year old today. 🙌🏼