Blog - All Island Speech & Stuttering Therapy

Stuttering is fight or flight… We need to change our inner voice….

Lori Melnitsky

Oct 6, 20201 min read

Stuttering is fight or flight… We need to change our inner voice….

Put on those boxing gloves. Time to push that word out at any cost and fight to the end. I hear the words in my head. Just let me push...

Practical Tips for Teens who Stutter to Facilitate Carryover…

Lori Melnitsky

Oct 5, 20203 min read

Practical Tips for Teens who Stutter to Facilitate Carryover…

Teen Stuttering: Practical Suggestions for Carryover by Lori Melnitsky from New York, USA Improving fluency outside of the clinical...

What Joe Biden has taught us about stuttering…

Lori Melnitsky

Oct 2, 20202 min read

What Joe Biden has taught us about stuttering…

Many of you have asked my opinion of Joe Biden in regard to stuttering so let me explain a few things. First the word stutterer is a...

An overview of cluttering as a speech disorder…

Lori Melnitsky

Sep 23, 20202 min read

An overview of cluttering as a speech disorder…

When speech becomes cluttered with faulty phrases, repetitions, fillers, unrelated words, and unintelligible terms, it leads to a...

What is the Lidcombe Program For Childhood Stuttering?

Lori Melnitsky

Sep 16, 20202 min read

What is the Lidcombe Program For Childhood Stuttering?

What is the Lidcombe Program for Stuttering? (with Lori Melnitsky, MA CCC-SLP, Stuttering Specialist) www.allislandspeech.com...

Suggested 504 Accomodations for Students who Stutter…

Lori Melnitsky

Aug 15, 20202 min read

Suggested 504 Accomodations for Students who Stutter…

Accommodations for Students who Stutter……. Stuttering occurs when there are disruptions in fluency or flow of speech. With slight...

Lori Melnitsky

Jul 30, 20203 min read

Understanding school age stuttering..

Stuttering in School-Age Children “Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I’d try to read my lessons and the children behind me were...

Parents: Helping the child who stutters?

Lori Melnitsky

Jul 29, 20202 min read

Parents: Helping the child who stutters?

What You Can Do to Help a Child Who Stutters? Stuttering is a communication disorder that disrupts the flow of speech. It significantly...

Lori Melnitsky

Jul 11, 20201 min read

My three year stutters: What do I do?

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How important is counseling in stuttering therapy?

Lori Melnitsky

Jun 30, 20202 min read

How important is counseling in stuttering therapy?

Although stuttering is considered a neurogenic or developmental, there are several emotional factors that play into it. Sometimes,...

Lori Melnitsky

Jun 24, 20202 min read

Is Stuttering a Disability?

Is Stuttering a Disability? Stuttering is legally identified as a speech disability in many countries around the world. But is it really?...

Learn to speak and enjoy talking even if you stutter…

Lori Melnitsky

Jun 22, 20200 min read

Learn to speak and enjoy talking even if you stutter…

Lori Melnitsky

Jun 21, 20203 min read

Stuttering Treatment for Adults

Do you get stuck with words or keep repeating some over and over again or may even take a pause at certain syllables? Chances are that...

Lori Melnitsky

Jun 20, 20202 min read

Stuttering: Basic Facts for Parents

STUTTERING : BASIC FACTS FOR PARENTS: What is Stuttering? Stuttering (also known as stammering or dysfluencies) consists of disruptions...

Adult Stuttering -What is Prolonged Speech?

Lori Melnitsky

Jun 19, 20202 min read

Adult Stuttering -What is Prolonged Speech?

Adult Stuttering-What is Prolonged Speech? Most people want to stop stuttering. In fact we pray to stop stuttering. I am an adult who...

Lori Melnitsky

Jun 12, 20204 min read

Lori Melnitsky-Journey with Stuttering

Lori Melnitsky by Beverly Fortune on September 2, 2009 Lori Melnitsky has been stuttering since she was four years old. It was a long...

Lori Melnitsky

Jun 10, 20201 min read

Helping Adults Stop Stuttering…

I stopped. I never ever stutter anymore. No more fear to speak. Then I woke up. It was a dream I have had many times. Not saying I am...

Lori Melnitsky

Jun 3, 20202 min read

What causes stuttering?

What Causes Stuttering? (This was adapted from the Stuttering Foundation of America) Stuttering Facts and Information What is...

Help your child who stutters in a pandemic…

Lori Melnitsky

May 9, 20201 min read

Help your child who stutters in a pandemic…

——News alert… I am upset and I cannot hide this… Going to the ER for stuttering.??What???? I cannot stress this enough, especially now…....

How can you help your child who stutters over telehealth…

Lori Melnitsky

May 4, 20201 min read

How can you help your child who stutters over telehealth…

During these stressful times stuttering can increase. Even in a pandemic stuttering can be helped. Despite homework and chaos, children...

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