Intensive Stuttering Therapy Program: Overview
- Three Week Intensive: Full Time Daily Sessions
Our intensive stuttering therapy program is approximately 100 hours of therapy over a three-week period and a follow-up support system that is designed exclusively for adults and teens as young as age 12. This therapy can be appropriate for all degrees of stuttering severity from mild to severe. A maximum of eight clients is accepted into each intensive program.
The group format allows for individualized attention and provides the enormous benefit of group interaction. We find our clients thrive in the psychological support of going through this process with others who share similar experiences. Also, practicing new speech management with others in the group helps to bridge the gap between the clinic and the "real world."
Our primary intention is to provide our clients with a positive, uplifting and empowering treatment experience. We work alongside our clients to guide them through a process that not only trains the physical aspects of how to operate and manage the speech mechanism, but also provides concrete experiences that change feelings and attitudes.
This is a therapy process that takes a whole-person, comprehensive approach that draws upon fields not typically associated with stuttering therapy. Expertise from the fields of cognitive and sports psychology, physical training, performance, motivation, and human potential have been brought together with the science and research of speech pathology to create a unique and effective treatment process.
During the first few days, clients become more in tune with what they do when they stutter, both physically and mentally. They then begin the process of learning how to open up and talk to others about stuttering in a confident and comfortable manner. Soon these activities are integrated with direct speech management: developing speech coordination skills and immediately integrating the skills into practical application with the others in the group.
All of these speech and attitudinal skills are gradually integrated into real-life application: with family, friends, on the phone and in practice in many outside situations. These experiences out in the world are critically important to the whole process. This is when the individual can "prove" to him or herself that he/she can do it. This is when the confidence really begins to build.
Combined, these elements of therapy enable the individual to develop an array of speech management tools, an empowered attitude that offers mental and emotional support through this challenging and exciting process of change, and concrete experience to develop the strength and confidence to integrate it all into life.
Our workspace is spacious, casual and warm. Each client has his or her own work area. The larger work areas are designed for small-group sessions, practice sessions among the clients, and for rest and relaxation.
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Program Calendar
Intensive programs are first-come, first-serve. The summer ones fill up quickly.
2010 PROGRAM DATES
- January 4-22
- May 10-28
- July 5-23
- July 26-30 Refresher
- Aug 9-27
- Oct 4-22
- Nov 29-Dec 17
Contact Us
American Institute for Stuttering
27 West 20th St. Suite 1203
New York, NY 10011
phone: (212) 633-6400
fax: (212) 220-3922
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