What’s awful is you met that one speech therapist. You also have to consider for the majority of SLP life, non-stutterers were teaching them! Relying on kids to do intervention is a way to try and be inclusive? But kids don’t have all the background and understanding to say things like oh that was a little bumpy, would you like to try that again? Sadly, the goal (I am assuming here!) of the constant reminders was to have you get through the stutter and repeat the word again in natural time in settings outside of therapy hopefully with more fluency. Since I don’t know how old you are it could have been before it was known that after pre-k, it’s rare that there will be a spontaneous “recovery”-instead it is more likely that there will be lifelong stuttering. Sadly I think kids just pointed it out and used it to make jabs, helping can turn malicious really quick with kids-even unintentionally. Stuttering use to be thought it was just a motor planning thing and an articulated thing but now it’s finding to be a part of the brain, breathing patterns, etc. Now, future SLPs are being taught to help those get through the stutter, that yes there is one but how do we make it work. 100% fluency isn’t the goal for lifelong stuttering but rather how to make the best quality of life for that person. They are also being taught to teach self-esteem and emotional strategies for lifelong stuttering since a lot of the problems are exaggerated from the psychological aspects of what the person who has a stutter is feeling. I, do not believe SLPs are our to get you or mess you up. They were taught strategies that didn’t work. It’s just like when doctors in the Civil War amputated a leg instead of just antibiotics. Sadly, humans learn by failing and my heart breaks for all those who were failed.