Apologies to everyone who's seen this comment before. When I get asked, I recycle my existing posts / comments. I was fortunate to have an SLP who approached fluency differently than what I gather many people have experienced. It wasn't an approach where you apply fluency techniques to your existing speech / stutter. It was a "ground up" approach. Starting with fluency basics and building up from those. I like to use the piano as an analogy. Say you've learned to play the piano, but you aren't fluent at it. You often hit wrong keys, or stumble across the keyboard. But you've learned to play all the songs. Just really poorly. The therapy I received would be akin to lessons where you work on basics. Seating, posture, individual keys, flats, sharps, etc. You're taught how to do each of these tasks without disfluency. In your everyday life, you're still playing your self-learned disfluent piano. YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO USE ANYTHING YOU'RE LEARNING IN PUBLIC. You're practicing your new skills daily. In private, by yourself. During your lessons, you're corrected if you're techniques aren't working well. If disfluencies are presenting in your current lessons and work, you're moved back a level or two. Back to where you were successful and fluent, even though that level is incredibly remedial. But the idea is that you build a foundation. Every advancement is a layer that relies on the earlier layers being solid. Your fluency is ingrained into the new speech you're learning. As you progress, you're handling more complexities. You're confident in your speech. Eventually, you're completely fluent in normal conversation during an entire hour-long lesson. It's at that point where you're finally allowed to use your fluency outside of therapy. So you're assigned the task of using your fluency once a day until your next lesson. We'll discuss the results. Here's the thing. You've done the work. You don't have techniques to rely on. You have a system. You've learned to speak completely from the ground up. You've set yourself up for success. At that point, lessons are just fine-tuning. And you're about done with speech therapy. Here's several links from this sub where I cover a lot of my experiences. Read my post and comments here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/tir6v2/i\_was\_the\_announcer\_at\_a\_charity\_hockey\_game/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/tir6v2/i_was_the_announcer_at_a_charity_hockey_game/) And this one: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/tyvtzd/seeking\_advice/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/tyvtzd/seeking_advice/) And this one: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/mzz6p9/anyone\_over\_17\_have\_success\_stories/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/mzz6p9/anyone_over_17_have_success_stories/) And finally... I cover a lot of ground in many comments in this one: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/okaf40/does\_speech\_therapy\_work/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/okaf40/does_speech_therapy_work/) This last thread I linked has a comment where I give a 1000 foot view of my speech therapy experience.