I learned fluency. I see a lot of discussion about techniques, but I always infer that the techniques are presented as solutions. As if "starting your exhale before your voice" alone will improve fluency. The therapy I received and helped me achieve fluency did use a lot of techniques mentioned in this sub. But they weren't applied to my disfluent speech. They were all layers of learning fluent speech. This fluent speech was developed separately from my disfluent speech. My stuttering didn't get better or make incremental improvements. My fluent speech was separate. I learned to speak without my disfluency. It was akin to teaching an infant speech. It started with very rudimentary use of my breath and voice. As I practiced and mastered this "speech" (if you can call it that) I did so without disfluency. Once I had command of this rudimentary use of my voice, we progressed. Slowly and incrementally. Small sentences. Pages and pages of small sentences. Longer sentences. Building up endurance and confidence. None of this at all being used outside of a clinical environment or practice alone. And there were more and more layers. Any time disfluency presented itself, we'd step back to an earlier stage and move forward from solid footing. Eventually this progress achieved my new fluent speech. Only then was I allowed to begin using my fluency outside of the office, and still on a limited basis as we tweaked and refined my fluent speech.