I agree. I think that at first it is helpful to be in a very controlled environment to hone in on very specific techniques and mechanical movements within the mouth etc. It can help to have a lot of practice in a controlled environment because then you can really understand how it feels like to be fluent. For me, that was feeling “chilled out” and relaxed with my mouth, I could then try to replicate that same feeling in a real life situation outside of therapy. However, my therapist took me and did other sessions in a coffee shop, or walking around town to change up the environment. These special sessions involved me ordering food at a coffee shop and saying my name, or asking specifying questions to store workers. These real life therapy sessions were certainly closer to my actual level of fluency (I was almost perfectly fluent in normal therapy), and taught me what to change and adapt to teach the “next level” of fluency. However, it is the combination of traditional therapy and real life scenarios that contributed to my fluency improvement. I think that is important to note, because a lot of times in speech therapy, it’s not one or the other, it’s a lot of different techniques and methods coming together to overall improve fluency.