5 Truths on Neuroplasticity and Stuttering

How is it that the amazing people I get to work with in my speech coaching practice can do things like go from stuttering while making important phone calls at work, to now speaking fluently with incredible ease and smoothness?

How is it that someone who was once weighed down by stuttering, now hears his family give him compliments like, “Wow, you’re talking so much better!"?

Or, even me — how is it that I can walk into a bar or cafe completely at ease when, just a few years ago, I’d feel a surge of anxiety and tightness? Which of course led to stuttering moments on the regular.

And the biggest question of all is this: What is the mechanism by which you and I can change this? How do we rewire the brain away from stuttering and toward fluency? Let's talk about it...