Atlanta Stuttering Specialist

Atlanta Stuttering Specialist is a speech therapist in Atlanta, Georgia, focused on the evaluation and treatment of fluency disorders for children and adults. The clinic provides stuttering therapy, assessment, and treatment for people who stutter, and its services extend beyond the Atlanta area through phone and live internet sessions for clients who do not live nearby. It holds a rating of 5.00 based on 154 reviews.

The practice is led by Tim Mackesey, a Georgia licensed and nationally certified speech-language pathologist since 1992 who specializes in fluency disorders. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master's degree in Speech Pathology from Georgia State University, and continued his training as a graduate clinician at the Successful Stuttering Management Program at Eastern Washington University in 1991 and at the Stuttering Therapy Workshop for Specialists at Northwestern University in 1995. He is a Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming and Neuro Semantics, and he taught the graduate-level Fluency Disorders course at Georgia State University.

Assessment at the clinic examines both the physical or behavioral symptoms of disfluency and the cognitive or emotional issues that may accompany it, after which an individual therapy plan is agreed upon. The F.A.S.T Fluency program is a direct approach aimed at resolving stuttering in preschool children, and more than 600 children have completed it. The practice also offers long distance help, parent and teacher guidance, classroom advocacy, and a nonprofit, Raise Your Voice, established to educate and provide community outreach. Two hypoallergenic Maltese-Shih Tsu mix dogs, Georgia and Louise, serve as greeters and therapy aids.

The clinic sits on Independence Square B, about half a mile from Emory Dunwoody Medical Center and roughly 0.4 miles from Pernoshal Park. The Village North and Village Mill neighborhoods are within about 0.6 and 0.7 miles, Treetop Quest Dunwoody is about 0.7 miles away, and the Atlanta Bypass, The Perimeter, runs about 0.7 miles from the office.

Tim Mackesey has appeared on television and radio programs in the Atlanta area speaking on the early detection and treatment of fluency disorders, and he delivers workshops nationally and internationally. The practice's standing rests on a strong local reputation and an established track record built on a large base of customer reviews.