As you consider your options for stuttering therapy, we hope you will closely examine HCRI’s systematic approach to fluency training and the passion for excellence that infuses our work.  You will find:

• We believe that the highest purpose in our work with stuttering is to develop and to free human potential.

• We believe fundamental success in the treatment of stuttering requires a well-grounded emphasis on empiracal analysis of the events that compromise this disorder.

• We believe that our physically based speech reconstruction program represents the most powerful method for enhancing fuency and for simultaneously reducing the psychological burdens of stuttering.

Following are HCRI's key points of distinction regarding our work and our stuttering therapy program.

Cutting edge research conducted by the staff of the Hollins Communications Research Institute has demonstrated the valuable role of scientific analysis in the creation of an objective, reliable, and effective 12-day treatment for stuttering. At HCRI, stuttering therapy represents a specific combination of advanced behavioral and computer technologies that enhance the learning and retention of fluent speech.

98% of HCRI program graduates say they would recommend this advanced stuttering therapy program to others who stutter. For many HCRI graduates, stuttering therapy is a one-time experience as fluency has replaced stuttering and continued therapy is not necessary. For persons who wish to have post-therapy support, HCRI offers a variety of services, including FluencyNet™, a new internet accessible home or office fluency support system that is available to alumni on a 24/7basis.

This treatment is only available at HCRI in Roanoke, Virginia USA. HCRI has treated over 5500 persons who stutter. If you stutter, or know someone that stutters, we invite you to learn more about the effective stuttering therapy provided at HCRI. To receive information by mail about HCRI's stuttering therapy, Click Here, or call us at: (540) 265-5650. 

Hollins Communications Research Institute Forges New Ground in the Treatment of Stuttering

Scientists at Hollins Communications Research Institute (HCRI), a non-profit research and clinical center (http://www.stuttering.org) specializing in the physically based treatment of stuttering, have developed a new stuttering therapy with advanced behavioral, electronic and computer technologies that significantly improve the ease of learning and retaining fluent speech.

The Virginia General Assembly commends Hollins Communications Research Institute for its innovative research and scientifically based treatment services in the field of stuttering, as the nonprofit institute celebrates its 35th anniversary.

Stuttering has an individualized impact on each person who lives with the disorder.  That's why, at HCRI, we customize our scientifically based stuttering treatment program to meet the specific needs of each client.  As you consider stuttering therapy for yourself or a loved one, read the following stories shared by HCRI clients about their journey from stuttering to fluency.

The tipping point that led me to HCRI occurred on Christmas Eve 1992 when my ambulance crew was dispatched to a residence for a gentleman in cardiac arrest.

As long as I can remember, I was shy and unsure of myself because of my stuttering.  While academically successful in school, kids used to make fun of me because of my stuttering. 

Stuttering was a major handicap for me until the age of 42.  It colored everything I did and stopped me from being able to do the things I wanted to do.