Stuttering therapy shifts focus to personal stories

Researchers at Binghamton University are turning to personal narratives to reshape how stuttering is treated. Rodney Gabel, a speech-language pathology professor, and doctoral student Ladan Khoshbin argue that traditional therapy's medical model, which aims to eliminate dysfluency, misses the lived experience of people who stutter. By listening to individuals' stories, they suggest, therapy can move beyond fixing speech patterns to understanding the person. This approach could help clinicians see stuttering not just as a disorder to correct, but as part of a person's identity. It's a reminder that effective care often starts with hearing the patient, not just the symptom.

How might sharing personal stories change the way you view a condition like stuttering?

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