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Podcast: Stuttering Solutions Atlanta
Episode: Time-Line Therapy: Why We Need It
Description: People who stutter (PWS) develop fear and avoidance habits. Â Unless we know how to help a pws with reducing fear and anxiety, we are not providing holistic therapy. Â An embarrassing moment of stuttering or avoiding talking is "stored to the hard drive"- Â it is consolidated, and it can be reconsolidated later. Â Â You can actually feel an old memory in your soma! As Starkweather and Givens write, stuttering is a variant of PTSD (see below). Â Â Anxiety and fear is the biggest obstacle for pws and graduate programs don't train students in CBT. Â Time-Line therapy is special sauce in providing CBT for...