commentr/StutterJuly 14, 2021

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Thanks for the advice. When I was doing speech therapy one to one my therapist didn't really give me homework it was more like she would just get me to read and talk to her for the session and then assess if my stutter had improved by the next session which was usually a month or 6 weeks later. When I was in the group therapy the therapist would give us all a little notebook and get us to write down all the words or sentences we had trouble with in that week(the group sessions were every week instead of every month) and then we would all try and say the words in our notebook. But as for doing my part,I had always practiced on improving my speech because I hated having a stutter and would and still do get picked on over it. My stutter was never really as bad as some if the kids in the group therapy but I was still the only kid around with one so I tried different techniques to improve it. I have found that my stutter had improved over the last year or so but I think that that is mainly down to the amount of research I did over lockdown. For example,joining a subreddit or something like this dedicated to stuttering was something I never would have done if covid hadn't given me so much time to myself and made me curious to explore other people's experiences and how they dealt with their stutter. In my own personal experience speech therapy did little to help my stutter but I left when I was 7 or 8 as that was the age that the health center in my area accommodated for with the nearest one now more than an hour away and quite expensive(I only got it free when I was younger because my school referred me to a public speech therapist)

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