A fluency disorder is defined as an ‘interruption in the flow of speaking’ (ASHA, 1993). Stuttering is the most common fluency disorder characterized by: 🔁 repetitions of sounds, syllables, parts of words or even whole words 📏 prolongations of sounds ⛔️ blocks (difficulty initiating sounds) What does that all mean? Well, we all can be disfluent even without a fluency diagnosis…I’ve stopped counting how many times I’ve used “uh” especially when someone asks why I Justin Bieber is the greatest a

Want to know the one thing that helped my students increase fluency and comprehension? 💡 Committing to fluency practice every day‼️ Sometimes, as a teacher I felt like reading for speed and accuracy was not only time consuming, but I didn’t have time to monitor every one of my students. 👩🏼‍🏫 I felt like progress monitoring every other week was not enough. 🗒 🖊 That is when I implemented our daily fluency practice where my students would read and track their progress at least three times per