STUTTERISM™ A Term Coined to Promote Long-Term Fluency

Richard Borys

To stimulate discussion and debate, I’ll explain for 10-15 minutes:

• 12 step programs, stemming from Alcoholics Anonymous (“AA”) over 70 years ago.
• AA ideas being appropriated to help others with physical addictions (e.g., overeating) and non-physical (e.g., compulsive shopping).
• A logical comparison between stutterers, capable of attaining desired treatment results, who resist maintaining such results; and, addicts, who show similar resistances.
• STUTTERISM™ as a term of convenience.
• How the 12 step “practice”, using the term STUTTERISM™, can be used, primarily by stutterers for stutterers; to counter patterns inimical to attaining/maintaining fluency results.

Discussion will follow in the remaining time.