Fortune 52 honor-Please seek help for your children

Practice groups are coming. Tonight I was honored by the Long Island Press at the Tilles Center. It was a big honor and I can't thank Steven Kaufman enough for nominating me. If anyone would have told me I would be honored when I was younger and suffering from severe stuttering, I would have gotten very angry. I never thought I would be able to answer a phone, let alone be honored. Please bring your kids for speech therapy and remember they don't have to struggle. Let me help them try and improve fluency and communication. Here is the link for those of you who haven't read the interview yet.
http://www.longislandpress.com/2009/09/02/lori-melnitsky/

Back to school

Please contact me for fluency practice group times for school aged children and teens. Some prior therapy needed but that can be discussed to meet your child's needs.


Check out Pam Mertz's blog on covert stuttering. I have learned alot from it as I am not a covert PWS but many of my clients are.
www.stutterrockstar.wordpress.com

Stuttering Conference Online 2009

http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/conference/conference.html

I highly recommend the International Stuttering Awareness Online Conference

It can also be accessed through www.stutteringhomepage.com

e-mail issues

Having some e-mail issues. You can also e-mail me at LMelnitsky@yahoo.com

Fortune 52 Nomination LI Press

Sorry I haven't finished the speech therapy advice. I got very sidetracked with school starting.
*******************************Big News******************

I was nominated for a wonderful award. To read more, please read:
http://www.longislandpress.com/2009/09/02/lori-melnitsky/

I never thought when I was young and severely stuttering I would be nominated for an award like this. tk you for everything.

IMPROVED FLUENCY THROUGH STUTTER FREE SPEECH-DAY 2

Day 2
Can you feel your diaghram expand? This takes lots and lots of practice. It is hard to feel. Don't get discouraged. It will get easier. I want you to keep doing it throughout the day. Try this sitting in a chair, standing up, or lying on the floor. Imagine a balloon expanding in you. Do it at work, on the subway, at home and as often as you can. Just not in speaking situations yet. You are not ready. Tune in tommorrow for more. If your are breathing with your shoulders raised, then this will produce tension. Breathe like you are inhaling through a long tube below your lungs.

IMPROVED FLUENCY THROUGH STUTTER FREE SPEECH DAY 1

Day one tune ups:

1. Practice complete breath target twenty minutes. Formally feel the diaphram expand. Practice throughout the day. 4 important steps to follow:

1. Let out residual air.
2. Take in slow relaxed deep brath.
3. Slowly let out air.
4. start process over.

This is vital for fluency. Tune in tomorrow.

You can become increasingly fluent with hard work and intensive therapy. I did it. YOu can too