Counseling Activities for Stuttering | SLP Resource

Use this resource with school-age children and teenagers to address negative feelings and attitudes associated with stuttering. This resource contains approximately 90 PAGES of activities that can be used more than once for various discussion topics. It will aide your counseling practice and discussions throughout treatment, with explicit instructions for implementation of activities. It can be printed to use with an individual or it is perfect for laminating for continued use! In addition, it can be cohesively used with annotation features during telehealth sessions. This resource is also intended to TEACH the SLP with 22 pages of SLP tips about counseling with individuals who stutter. Contains varying age-appropriate activities for school aged children.

This resource includes the following targets for addressing stuttering:

• LOW PREP: all specific handouts/activities are print and go (but we recommend SLP’s read through instructions before implementation!)

• SLP instructions for all activities

• Feeling definitions related to stuttering

Various Activities:

• Exploring emotions associated with stuttering

• Emotional learning

• Addressing stuttering experiences

• Discussion maps for talking about stuttering feelings

• Writing and scale tasks to address feelings

• Thought/action/feeling analysis

• Helpful thinking and thought re-framing

• Addressing hiding stuttering/avoidance

• Problem-solving

• Social scenarios

• Reflection exercises

• Personal goal development

• Home Reflection Activities

How it works:

Specific instructions are included for activities with age recommendations. Activities are scaffolded/leveled to begin addressing attitudes and feelings, beginning with basic discussions and ending with more complex discussions.