stuttering

I pay my respects to Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners.

And today on Speak Up I'm joined by Professor Mark Onslow, Director of the Australian Stuttering Research Centre.

Mark's paper is part of a series, Contemporary Clinical Conversations About Stuttering, Telling Parents Why Their Child Began to Stutter.

And it discusses clear, tangible tools that clinicians can take into practice when telling parents why their children may have begun to stutter.

Welcome, Mark.

Could you tell us in what areas did they agree? In what areas did they disagree? And what were the hardest or even the easiest messages to convey to the parents about why children started to stutter?

It's a difficult thing to convey to parents because it's unlike developmental issues with language and phonology.

Stuttering develops really rapidly after a period of uneventful speech and language development, and it can appear suddenly.

Exciting to see Sandra Bell making some new music.

This of course is Elastica with Stutter.

I've still got that double pass to the 48-hour film festival regional finals event happening this Saturday at the Hollywood Avondale.

So if you want to go, all you've got to do is text me, 5395, your name and your B-card number.

I am, uh, I am kindly requesting that the Nashville Predators hear my plea again to gr- wrap your fingers around the handlebar and press down on the TNT Acme box and blow it up.

Send Stammer back to Tampa-

I think-

... or to Boston.

That'd be gas.

[laughs]

I think Stammer in Montreal makes so much sense.

Being coached by his former teammate?

So from then, I, I sought out a grad school that would have a lot of opportunities for me to learn more about stuttering, more about different treatment approaches, and that took me to UT Austin.

I got to work with Courtney Bird, who is amazing, um, and do a couple of rotations in, uh, the Arthur Blank Center.

Uh, back then [chuckles] it was the Lang Stuttering Institute.

And that is when I learned all about the CARE model for stuttering.

It's communication, advocacy, resiliency, and education.

So for SLPs in the school, looking at, you know, do, are they aware they're stuttering, for one, and if they are aware, what are their attitudes towards it.

And if they are aware or not aware, do they know anything about stuttering that will protect them from these negative experiences that they are bound to have.

Stuttering can be challenging.

I think I was actually on a team that called it a stug-o.

No. No. Stutter.

Usually a stutter.

Stutter's like a stutter.

I like stuggo better.

Or stop and go.