If you're a speech therapist, if you're a parent of a child who stutters, and, obviously, if you're a person who stutters, it’s great to understand how it works, and what the opposite of stuttering is… Which is not quite what you might think of! It's not quite fluency! So, what is it? Let's find out!

I want to talk about two direct causes of stuttering tension, stuttering anxiety, stuttering anticipation, and the stuttering state. These are the two real causes of stuttering actually. We can clearly identify them, and we can affect them effectively.

"I don't stutter alone" – that's a comment or question I hear all the time. Or "I'm fluent most of the time; I stutter only when..." Why does this happen? And what can we do about it?