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This is what helped me best: 1. Practice “singing” through words. I don’t know how scientific this is, but I’ve heard that singing uses a different part of your brain than talking, and I’ve never once stuttered while singing. Try and read something out loud, but purposely over-alter your vocal variety to give ur brain the illusion that you are singing it. 2. Learn how to manage breathing effectively. I think this is specific to my stutter but trying to push words out uses tons of air. It helped me greatly to learn how to take in effective breaths while talking. 3. When you are talking or publicly speaking, think that you are speaking “at” people, rather than “too” them. The stress that comes with thinking what people will view you as if you stutter only makes it more likely that you will stutter. However, just think of it as you regurgitating sounds greatly helps. 4. Find out what sounds, vowel or consonant, you stutter on. Then isolate these and practice them repetitively. Make a passage using many of these sounds and be able to proficiently read it. 5. Talk to yourself in the mirror. It helps when you know what you psychically need to do to talk. But I think the NUMBER ONE thing that helped me personally was changing my speaking voice to be more resonant, bellowing (not loud but assertive), and sound like a professional speaker at all times. Friends often ask me in casual talk why it sounds like I’m giving a speech but I’ve altered my speaking style to sound like that and it gives me so much confidence and ability to vary.