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A step-by-step video series designed to help parents ‘manage’ their child’s stammering
4 SHORT VIDEOS
2 SHORT VIDEOS
PRICE
$39
I am a developmental pediatrician practicing at Gertrude’s children’s hospital. In this capacity I have worked with Lorna and find her to be very professional and passionate about her work.
She is very thorough when evaluating children and is comfortable interacting with other professionals in a multidisciplinary team. She has been a pleasure to work with.
Dr. Alliya Mohamed, MD FAAP.
We first met Lorna when she was referred to us as a speech therapist for our son. After we saw how quickly our son’s speech improved (and how Lorna integrated academic concepts into the therapy), we realized Lorna has a gift for working with children.
Lorna is someone you follow. Lorna…has our highest possible recommendation.
Mama & Baba Gabriel, and Samuel
Our very first meeting with Lorna gave me a great deal of confidence that i was finally at the right place. By the end of that first meeting i got to know for the first time the specific challenge areas that we needed to concentrate on so as to help my daughter along with her speech and i was also equipped with practical skills to further aid her progress. Six months down the line, my daughter can express herself much more clearly and this has given her confidence to make friends at school!
Njambi
I know Lorna since that time for my son and do not hesitate to discuss with her any issue pertaining to her field. She gives all her time to listen and advices appropriately.
I feel proud to recommend her to any of my colleague, friend or my patients, as I have experienced her services myself. Speech therapy services are quite few in the country and not really affordable for some. Lorna is working hard to provide an affordable, uninterrupted service that the country is really in need of. We really need to support her in this great initiative.
Dr Rohini Patil MBBS, MD (Paed)
Well, stuttering happens to have associated factors as well as environmental factors that could make stuttering worsen with time
People who stutter are less likely to display higher confidence levels (more so for people who have been stuttering for extended periods of time) especially in situations that involve speaking
This means, if you have a child who stutters, they are less likely compared to children who speak fluently, to raise their hand in class to ask a question.
How could these factors contribute to the worsening of the stutter?
Imagine if you had any negative feelings associated with presenting in front of many people (or your boss), how do you think your presentations would go during these situations?
Over time, anxiety can make a child who stutters avoid speaking situations.
Anxiety can also make a child who stutters fearful (or anxious) about speaking situations, which in turn can negatively impact on their speaking fluency.
Similarly, there are environmental situations that can also contribute to the worsening of a stutter
It is unfortunate that people (including children) who stutter hardly every receive positive feedback (or praise) associated with how they speak
In fact, children who stutter might not even receive many other positive feedback about anything related to speaking
No one ever tells them they are speaking well
Or that they have great ideas
Or that their story was wonderful
Our 3 year old daughter was struggling with stammering when we decided to seek help from a speech therapist, Lorna Muthamia- Ochido who came highly recommended by friends as well as my daughter’s school. She did a very thorough initial assessment which revealed that our daughter indeed stammered and also had a lisp, something that we were completely unaware of. Lorna was very friendly and skillful that our daughter barely noticed that she was being assessed.
Lorna exceeded our expectations…
– Our daughter was stutter free within a period of one year, with two therapy sessions per week.
– She was lisp free within three months with 1 session therapy per week.
– …She fully equipped us with strategies to use daily at home.
Norah
Hi, I’m your teacher Lorna Muthamia-Ochido. I run a family-centred speech-language therapy clinic, the largest in East and Central Africa. My clinic has helped more than 40,000 children optimise their communication outcomes (in other words, I make children smarter ). My most important job however has been to empower parents and equip them with the necessary skills to mitigate their children’s speech/ language difficulties and set them on a trajectory of lifelong success.
Because I work in an underserved country, I have not always been able to make my services accessible to all who need it, which compelled me to find a way to get this much needed training out to parents so that they too can be empowered to make the difference in their child’s life. I am a mama of 3 (Mor- 11; Marwa- 9 and Mara- 5), so all these techniques have also been tried and tested with not just my clients, but my own children. I am also a proud homeschooler- I am passionate about enriching children’s learning journeys and bringing down barriers that prevent them from succeeding.
After you purchase the video series, you’ll get an email from us with instructions for logging into your course.
No one can promise a ‘cure’ for stuttering, however, there are some effective strategies, which if applied consistently, can ‘manage’ your child’s stuttering. These video series teach some strategies that can help manage the stutter for children who are aged below 6 years.
Great question! No general course could ever replace an individualised speech therapy program. That said, these videos are meant to give you immediately implementable tips should they realise or suspect that your child has developed a stutter. I have found that parents who suspect their child may have a stutter, can in the time between the onset and seeking evaluation, inadvertently contribute to a worsening of the stutter.
These series can help you support your child’s speech, by acting as a stop-gap measure until you are in a position to seek evaluation from a speech therapist. In best case scenarios, these series can help get your child to become stutter-free. The tips I share here can also be used in conjunction with your child’s speech therapy plan.