This is the story of Ted, a 10-year-old, from Oregon. He began stuttering at age 8 and was repeating 85% of his words in most conversations. As Ted was in a gifted-student program, his stuttering seemed to make even less sense. Ted had other therapies, at ages 5 and 9, but none helped.
His parents found WSSA online and joined it and began watching other coaching videos and master class videos. This helped a great deal.
They then had five coaching sessions with Lee. Lee urged Ted and his parents to slow their speech, and read aloud alone and together, working on slowing speech and thinking “pronunciation”.
By the third session, Ted had stopped repeating his words. His parents request that no picture, name or info be posted that could be connected with Ted.
Ted (10), Oregon, June 2024