User:Alan Read/Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Applied to Stuttering

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), introduced by Aaron Beck is used widely in assisting people to overcome depression. Now it is increasingly being used to help people who stutter or stammer, to overcome anxiety. CBT teaches people to analyse how unhelpful thoughts may be contributing to their anxieties, which can cause avoidance behaviours, and further stuttering. People can then learn to challenge such thoughts. It can also be used to help people who stutter change negative beliefs about themselves in to positive ones.

Such therapy can usually be obtained through speech and language therapists, trained in CBT. More recently, techniques offered by CBT are now available through computerized methods, including online approaches such as Speech Bloom, which is a study program for stuttering.