By the end of the first week you can be Stutter-Free in the clinic

If you are ready to finally change the way you talk, this program may be for you. You need to be committed, not only to the the week of intensive therapy, but also the follow-up program where you learn to talk in all speaking situations, all day long.

The Stutter-Free Speech Program is a five day intensive program for adults and children as young as 10 years. Individual therapy is two hours each day - Monday through Friday. Structured transfer of stutter-free speech behaviors to situations outside the clinic are completed at home and are monitored by weekly phone conversations and mail.

Out of state clients fly into Orange County international airport. The Center is located in Irvine which is ten minutes from the airport and Disneyland. Many hotels and motels are available.

THE STUTTER-FREE SPEECH PROGRAM: HOW IT WORKS

The Stutter-Free Speech Program was developed by Dr. George Shames at the University of Pittsburgh in 1980.

Phase 1:  Volitional Control - You will speak naturally in conversation at a controlled rate of speech and to achieve stutter-free speech. The Delayed Auditory Feedback machine is used to produce rate control. 

Phase 2:  Self-Regulation - You produce stutter-free speech in the clinic and evaluate your progress .

Phase 3:  Transfer - You carefully transfer your new speaking skill to the your own real life speaking situations at home and work. 

Basically, the program replaces your stuttered speech with a new way of talking which is incompatible with stuttering.You start this with a very slow rate of speaking during which you don't stutter from the first day of therapy. Gradually the rate is increased until it approximates normal speaking. At this point you are stutter-free in the clinic. The last part of the program is when you transfer this stutter-free speech into speaking situations outside the clinic and at home starting with very easy speaking situations and gradually moving to more difficult ones when you are ready.

Mark Power, M.A., CCC-SLP

Board Certified Fluency Specialist - American Speech Language Hearing Association.

Mark Power is a speech pathologist who has trained clinicians in public schools, hospitals and private practice in stuttering therapy for the past 14 years. He is on the faculty at California State University, Long Beach. He is the Fluency Coordinator for the Los Angeles County Office of Education and maintains a private practice in Orange County, California. Mr. Power is the California State Coordinator of the ASHA Special Interest Division, Fluency and Fluency Disorders, and serves on its Task Force for Fluency Services in the Schools. He has presented "hands-on" training workshops to many school district speech departments in California.

Mark was himself a severe stutterer for most of his life and is dedicated to providing practical training so that effective stuttering treatment can be delivered to all people who stutter.