Fluency Therapy

Fluency is the part of speech that refers to continuity, smoothness, rate, and effort when speaking. Treatment for fluency therapy varies from patient to patient as often there may be additional components impacting a child’s ability to speak fluently including anxiety or poor breath support. It is determined after a thorough analysis of speech fluency rate, language issues, emotional elements, and life impact. Fluency therapy is not designed to “fix” the person who stutters but rather the job of a speech-language pathologist is to provide the child with techniques and strategies to take control of or minimize the impact of the disfluent speech. Techniques include easy onset speech, bouncing techniques, etc. along with breathing exercises and techniques to increase the child’s awareness of anxiety to decrease it as decreased fluency is often related to increased anxiety.