Speech-Language Therapy for Teenagers and Adults Who Stutter
Are you ready to reclaim your voice and speak confidently again? Our specialized therapists understand the unique challenges faced by teenagers and adults who stutter. Stuttering can accumulate avoidance behaviors over time, such as tics, long blocks, shame and missed opportunities in relationships and careers. We firmly believe that everyone, including those who stutter, deserves to feel comfortable in their speech and be satisfied of their communication skills.
Why Choose Our Stuttering Therapy?
Our approach goes beyond traditional speech techniques. We focus on empowering you to overcome the fear of speaking and rediscover your true self. Our evidence-based techniques are tailored to your specific needs, helping you regain control over your communication. Our therapy is personalized, supportive, and transformative, ensuring that you receive the guidance you need to speak with confidence and satisfaction.
Starting Your Journey Towards Satisfactory and Comfortable Speech
Starting your journey with us means embarking on a partnership that understands your goals and aspirations. We work closely with you to grasp your unique needs, concerns, and emotional readiness. Through open conversations, we explore how stuttering has impacted your life and develop a plan that aligns with your availability and aspirations.
Interventions for stuttering are often a long-term process, involving changes in speech, but also in thoughts and behaviours. However, even after one session, positive effects can be experienced. Our commitment is evident from the very start. Our initial meeting helps us understand your speech patterns and personal needs. By the end of this first session, you'll have at least one actionable goal and resources to help you in your transformation. We will also encourage you to join communities of people who stutter and will suggest resources that will empower you in your journey.
Our Online Telehealth Services: Making Services Accessible
We are dedicated to making our services accessible to all, no matter their location or circumstances no matter if they speak French or English. Online telehealth services for stuttering therapy have been proven to be as effective as in-person therapy by scientific studies. We understand that many families may face challenges in accessing speech-language pathology services, such as those in remote First Nations communities, small towns, isolated cities or distant villages. Our commitment to online services enables us to bridge this gap and offer effective therapy to those in need.
Moreover, online therapy opens up exciting creative possibilities. We utilize digital arts to create engaging posters, cartoons, and videos that resonate with teenagers and young adults, making therapy sessions not only effective but enjoyable.
For adults, our expertise extends to using technology to aid your everyday practice. We integrate text reminders, voice messages, and curated podcast recommendations into your therapy, facilitating consistent progress even between sessions. Additionally, we sometimes use Discord and Zoom meetings for group support meeting or group therapy sessions.
Diverse Tools for Your Unique Needs
We recognize that every individual is unique, and so are their needs. We are trained in various approaches to stuttering therapy, ensuring that we have a diverse toolkit to meet your specific requirements. Our training includes:
- Behavioral Approach : Behavioural learning techniques to make your child or yourself learn to speak with less stuttering (ex.: Lidcombe program for children).
- Avoidance Reduction Therapy for Stuttering (ARTS®): Ways to help you stop avoiding talking in public or stop avoiding specific sounds or words.
- Arts and nature as therapeutic tools to well-being: Activities that uses creative process and nature to feel better and make sense of your experience of stuttering.
- Fluency-shaping techniques: Techniques to reduce stuttering in specific situations like when making a call or saying your name.
- Transcending Stuttering Framework: A frame work to easily understand what can be done about stuttering and where to prioritize actions.
Collaborations and Continuous Learning
We are committed to staying at the forefront of stuttering therapy. We participate in national and international congresses and trainings, and we receive mentorship from experienced speech-language pathologists in the fiels of stuttering whenever the need is felt.
We are proud to have contributed to the developement of a workbook for teenagers who stutter in the context of the Summer Camp 2023 of the ''Association des jeunes bègues du Québec''.
Financial Support for treatement
We are proud to collaborate with the two main non-profit associations for people who stutter in Quebec. We participate in their financial support programs, designed to assist those who may face challenges affording the full price of speech therapy. Clients can seek financial support from the ''Association Bégaiement Communication'' for adults Who Stutter and the ''Association des jeunes bègues du Québec'' for Children and Teenagers Who Stutter. These associations share our commitment to providing accessible and impactful therapy, doing our best so that cost is not a barrier to the support you need.