Suddenly Stuttering

Your child started stuttering. You're scared. And you don't know where to turn. 

So you did what every parent does. You googled it.

And what you found made everything worse.

One source told you to ignore it completely. Another said seek help immediately. Someone in a forum said it would resolve on its own. A well-meaning family member told you to slow your child down. Your GP said wait and see. A speech pathologist gave you a waiting list and no real answers.

Now you're more confused than when you started, and you still don't know what to actually do.

That's not your fault. The information available to parents navigating childhood stuttering is genuinely overwhelming, often contradictory, and almost never addresses the most important piece of the puzzle.

This is where you start.

Video guide + PDF

When stuttering starts, everything feels urgent and nothing feels clear.

You've probably been told to wait and see. Or to ignore it. Or to tell your child to slow down. You may have already seen a speech pathologist who gave you exercises that didn't seem to help, or a long waiting list and no answers.

The late night searches haven't helped. Every forum thread leads somewhere frightening. Every piece of advice contradicts the last.

Hi, I’m Lauren Conley.

I'm a speech pathologist who has been working with children who stutter since 2008. But I work very differently to most.

I spent years working within traditional stuttering therapy frameworks before I started noticing something. The children who weren't improving, the ones whose stuttering kept coming back no matter what we did, almost always had one thing in common. A highly sensitive, easily overloaded nervous system.

When I started working with the nervous system instead of just the speech, everything changed.

I'm also a highly sensitive person myself. Which means I understand, from the inside, what it feels like to be a child whose nervous system takes in more than the world expects it to.

What you'll learn in Suddenly Stuttering 

This is a 35-minute recorded video guide, designed to watch with a cup of tea while the kids are asleep. I walk you through everything you need to understand, in plain language, without the clinical jargon.

‣ What stuttering is and what causes it 
Why it starts suddenly, what's happening in the brain, and why your child is not doing anything wrong.

‣ Why stuttering feels so threatening 
The real reasons panic sets in, and why your fear response makes complete sense.

‣ Why stuttering fluctuates 
The load and capacity model, why some days are worse than others and what that's telling you.

‣ The nervous system connection 
Why highly sensitive children stutter more, and what that means for how you support them.

‣ What to do today 
Practical, immediate steps to reduce load, increase capacity, and start supporting your child's nervous system right now.

Also included:

‣ The Suddenly Stuttering PDF guide 
A beautifully designed reference document covering everything in the video, to keep, revisit and share with your partner, your child's teacher, or your own mum.

This is for you if...

• Your child has recently started stuttering and you don't know what to do
• You've been told to wait and see and something about that doesn't feel right
• You've noticed your child seems sensitive, intense or easily overwhelmed
• You've googled your child's stutter at midnight and felt more scared than before
• You've received conflicting advice and don't know who to trust
• You want to understand what's happening before jumping into therapy
• You want to feel calm and capable when your child stutters, not panicked

“I came to Lauren's work convinced I was doing everything wrong. Within 30 minutes I finally understood what was happening with my son and I realised I was doing more right than I thought. That shift changed how I showed up for him completely.” 

— Parent, Fluency Foundations member