**Recommended interventions:** *(summarized)* * Accept stuttering. Accepting it doesn’t mean we aren’t trying to reduce struggle and tension * Desensitizing to stuttering * Understand that most people are pretty understanding if you disclose your stutter. And if they don’t, so be it! Dealing with ignorant people is just a fact of life * Learn to recognize when a block might happen and then take control of it and stutter easier with no tension. get back to your stuttering roots (easy, part word repetitions with no tension). Return to that early stutter phase when we were young children at early onset and we first started stuttering, there were no blocks, just part word repetitions. It wasn’t uncomfortable, nor was it ever a struggle to speak * Learn how to stutter easier * It’s the content of the message that’s important, not how we say it. Communication is not defined or limited by fluency * The more we “want to fix” stuttering, the worse it actually gets * Don't aim for sounding more fluent, rather manage your stuttering * Work on resiliency * Recognize moments of stuttering to enable ourselves to respond in a healthier way * Re-teach ourselves to stutter easily * Work on secondaries: tension, eye blinking, head turning, etc that go along with stuttering * The more we fight stuttering, the worse it gets * Understand that perfect fluency isn’t always a realistic goal * Reduce struggle, ease fear, and build confidence **Not recommended:** * Fluency enhancing techniques, like stretching the first syllable of an utterance. Argument: Robotic, it masks our true speech patterns and is not sustainable long term, as well as a high relapse rate because we are reinforcing the fact that stuttering is bad.