S5E7: Steff Lebsack

Steff Lebsack, a speech-language pathologist who stutters, shares her journey and passion for working with people who stutter. She discusses her background, including her brother’s childhood stuttering and her own development of stuttering later in life due to a brain injury. Steff emphasizes the importance of a holistic approach in speech therapy, focusing on the autonomy of the person who stutters rather than strictly adhering to fluency-focused treatment methods. She talks about her involvement in initiatives like creating therapy guides using comics and her experience teaching graduate courses on stuttering. Steff also reflects on how her role as a therapist shifted from “saving” people who stutter to walking alongside them in their journey.