Great reply. I agree completely with your advice. Because if we don't practice and face triggers (such as, unpopular words) then how else are we going to address such triggers? Avoiding them can make our intolerance for triggers, worse. So, as you said, we need to read them aloud, or use them in spontaneous speech with the goal of desensitizing such triggers, and learning to not rely anymore on heightened demands around such triggers, such as: **The need to reduce unpopular words to initiate motor programs (maladaptive demand that conditions the primary symptom of stuttering).**