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The Ezy-Speech Program

Details about the Ezy-Speech Course

You will take part in an actual Ezy-Speech intensive course recorded in DVD format. The course is twofold. It is designed to treat the stutter and to assist the person, from a psychological perspective, to make the transition to fluency. The double DVD set (lasting approximately 2 hours 45 minutes) will cover all topics necessary for you to achieve and maintain fluency. Here is an outline of the double DVD program and support network. (The Ezy-Speech Packs each contain the same double DVD set.)

Introduction

Speech pathologist and course co-ordinator, Dr Lisa Hudson, provides the introduction to the Ezy-Speech stuttering therapy program.

Breathing and Relaxation

The Ezy-Speech program takes you through a professional relaxation session designed and presented by professional YOGA expert, Elaine Croft. Elaine has been teaching yoga in Australia for more than 35 years. She describes how to use specific breathing and relaxation techniques that are critical to the success of the program.

Speech Formation

After an explanation of human speech and how it is formed, Dr Hudson explains the physical reasons for stuttering. An animation of the human body is used to explain and highlight the importance of airflow in relation to muscle movement and sound formation.

Ezy-Speech Breath Band

The importance and use of the new Ezy-Speech Breath Band (included in the course), in relation to diaphragmatic breathing, is explained by Lisa and demonstrated by David, a recovering stutterer with 19 years' experience with the Australian Speak Easy Association.

Ezy-Speech Technique

Dr Lisa Hudson expertly and gently guides you through the Ezy-Speech technique. You will be introduced to Stuart and Ashleigh, two young people newly introduced to Ezy-Speech. You will work with Stuart and Ashleigh to complete all segments of the program and to become an expert in your own Ezy-Speech technique. To improve learnability of the technique, we have provided auditory, visual and kinesthetic teaching methods.

Emphasis is on repetition during the course and you are encouraged to move to a new segment when, and only when, you are confident with your knowledge and use of your new Ezy-Speech technique. Initially, we recommend daily training / boosting of the technique for a period of three to six weeks, followed by ongoing regular maintenance.

Psychology

Our psychologist, Judy Rafferty, gives you an insight into the importance of you as a person, the importance of your new technique and how to bring them both together to form a more confident version of yourself. You will be given an understanding of how you alone can take full responsibility for your own recovery and fluency. Judy explains neural pathways in the brain and why we are fearful and often negative. She then will help you to understand how new pathways can be developed and how psychological insights can allow you to achieve and sustain fluency. During this segment, the importance of commitment and persistence is highlighted, but equally important is the maintenance of positive thoughts.

The skills of fluency require psychological adaptation. This is a critical aspect of the Ezy-Speech program. There is so much more to stuttering than stuttering itself. It is what you don't see below the surface that will be discussed in this most important and enlightening segment.

Transition to Everyday Speech

This segment is presented by Judy Rafferty (psychologist) and David Edwards, a recovering stutterer with more than 19 years' experience in stuttering treatment. David has been one of the main drivers for the development of the Ezy-Speech program. He became involved with the Australian Speak Easy Association (ASEA) in 1991. This is an association for recovering stutterers. David became a regional leader for the ASEA and involved himself with the running of weekly fluency maintenance meetings. Since 1999 David has also helped in the running of fluency programs for booster workshops and annual ASEA camps. Many of the results of Dave's efforts are presented in this segment in which he provides ideas, concepts and strategies to help you with transition to everyday speech. Fluency, like any skill, is useless unless you put it to use.

Mini Booster

A mini booster is provided at the end of the course to help you practise and maintain your technique on a daily basis. Daily practice is strongly encouraged to maximize use of your new technique and to continually extend the feeling of new-found fluency. Elements within the mini booster can be taken and used when and wherever you desire. You will be able to boost technique without even speaking. These methods are explained during the course and can be adopted anywhere; when you are driving, on a train, when walking, in fact anywhere you like. No one will even know you are practising!

By DVD delivery, and by one-on-one face-to-face support, we have ensured that the learner is able to move at his or her own pace and can review the technique as often as needed and practise as often and whenever it suits. Initially though, we recommend daily training / boosting of the technique for a period of three to six weeks. Following this, ongoing regular maintenance is necessary.

The Ezy-Speech Network

Ezy-Speech offers lifetime support, our motto being 'fluency with support'. Following the course, you can choose to become part of the Ezy-Speech Worldwide Network and take advantage of the power and support of other graduates. Once you have completed the course, you may wish to contact other members of the Ezy-Speech Network, and this can be done securely through our website. Once these initial contacts are made, you can practise technique via phone, Skype (teletherapy) or even face to face if both parties desire.

Further, the purchase of any Ezy-Speech Pack includes:

• Access into the members' area of our website where you can be involved in forums and chat with like-minded individuals who have also completed the Ezy-Speech program. (Membership to the Ezy-Speech Worldwide Network)
• Updates on information about stuttering and new developments regarding Ezy-Speech. (Monthly Newsletter)
• Directory of Ezy-Speech associations worldwide (as they develop).

Purchase of the Training & Support Pack also includes, for a limited time:

• Ten 45-minute teletherapy sessions (2 with our Speech Pathologist + 8 with an Ezy-Speech Coach) incorporating written evaluation. (Simply log on to the website, go to 'My Profile' page, click on 'Book a Skype Session' and check the availability of the Practitioner. Use the time converter link to establish when you would like us to Skype you, then email your request and Skype details via the 'Contact Us' page. Any further Skype sessions can be booked through the website.)

Ezy-Speech also offers members access to confidential online therapy sessions with:

• Our Ezy-Speech Speech Pathologist. You can book our Doctor of Speech Pathology for therapy sessions to help maintain or advance skills and confidence with your technique.
• One of our Speech Coaches. You can book one of our Speech Coaches for a general chat about Ezy-Speech technique, to practise technique at foundation rates and/or discuss transitional methods.
• Our Psychologist. You can book our Psychologist to discuss any issues that you may have with using technique in certain situations or any other issues that are outside speech pathology.
• These Skype sessions can be booked through our website. Check the prices, select the practitioner and a time that suits you from our availability chart.