>putting your voice on a delay from one's thoughts can making the stutter worse. Yes, these research studies provide evidence that delaying one's thoughts (or rather, delaying speech initiation) makes stuttering worse, because it leads to impairing the inhibitory control (an executive function): * [Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/18so9i6/tips_to_improve_stuttering_from_the_research_fmri/): *"fMRI study of initiation and inhibition of manual responses in PWS"* (2020) * [Post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/18qxg2h/tips_to_improve_stuttering_according_to_the/): *"Reactive Inhibitory Control Precedes Stuttering Events"* (2023)