{"id":1847,"date":"2011-02-27T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T18:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2011-02-28T17:22:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:22:46","slug":"talking-to-animals-to-cure-stutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/general\/talking-to-animals-to-cure-stutter\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking to animals to cure stutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just watched a great video on CNN about a man who, as a child, suffered from a server stutter (and often &#8220;frozen mouth&#8221; as they put it in the video).\u00a0 At a young age he started to talk with animals, specifically big cats, as they didn&#8217;t apply the same pressure or expectations as grown-ups did regarding his stutter.\u00a0 Through this self-directed therapy he began to find internal control of his stutter and now is a fluent speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full video: <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/video\/?\/video\/health\/2011\/02\/22\/hf.rabinowitz.stutter.cnn\">Talking to animals to cure stutter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Animal therapy is something I find interesting having grown up around dogs and cats (I found animals to be great companions as a child).\u00a0 The attention and love received from animals does seem to do wonders for children in a variety of therapy situations.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any experience with using animals, great or small, for therapy with children or adults?\u00a0 I&#8217;m interested to hear your thoughts!<\/p>\n<p>-Ryan<br \/>\nDirector of Marketing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just watched a great video on CNN about a man who, as a child, suffered from a server stutter (and often &#8220;frozen mouth&#8221; as they put it in the video).\u00a0 At a young age he started to talk with animals, specifically big cats, as they didn&#8217;t apply the same pressure or expectations as grown-ups did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogcontent.summit-education.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}