"Techniques.." I cringe when I hear that word in this sub. Many of us use the same techniques. I was taught easy onset and light contact as some of the fundamentals. Breathing. Starting your breath before your start your voice. Monotone/mush speech. And much more. But... and I can't emphasize this enough... It was all part of a program. A progression. I didn't learn to stop stuttering. I learned to speak fluently. And this entailed relearning speech from the beginning. It wasn't correcting my existing disfluency. I literally had two different "speeches." My existing, disfluent speech I had always had. And my speech therapy speech (which had its own parts.) My speech therapy speech was a ground up approach. The work I did started with very rudimentary speech. All of it was in the speech therapist office or by myself at home. Lots of practice at home. Guidance and correction during speech therapy sessions. Sometimes we'd move forward, advancing my fluency in the office. Sometimes we'd step back. If any disfluency was creeping into my speech therapy speech. As I said in my earlier comment, my speech therapy speech was never used with anyone else outside of the therapist office. Not until I was ready, which was when my speech therapist and I were both ready to make that transition. I think people sometimes struggle to comprehend the progression. Let me give an example (It's just one of many.) Physical cues. I had physical cues tied to my speech. There were two parts of my speech therapy speech. First part was the easy onset, mush, monotone, soft, drone was the first. In the beginning, all of my speech therapy was this. Very simple. Couple of words. Always ample breath. Getting the basics down. Spent a long time getting this down. Building up the muscle memory. And the air. Learning when to stop, take a breath, and continue. During my progress, we started transitioning the last syllable of a sentence from the first part to a more normal, fluent speech rate and tone. Learning that transition was like learning to drive a stick shift. There was an inclination to shift hard and fast. We spent a long time working on that transition. The physical cue we used was my right arm raised like I was being sworn in. My hand stayed up while I was in the first part (easy onset, etc) lowering my hand down to the desk when I transitioned to a more normal speech rate and tone. This was a physical association between the two types of speech. As I progressed, we'd move the transition point forward in the sentence. At the last word of the sentence. Last two words. Halfway through the sentence. After the second word. After the first word. After the first syllable. At the same time, we were also changing the physical cues. Instead of my arm from my elbow to my hand, we'd use a closed and open hand. Closed for the first part, opening during the transition. Pinched finger to thumb, opening during the transition. Finger pressed, finger released. The easy onset, mush, monotone was not something you'd ever use in public. It was the opposite of articulation in many ways. It was a slurred, soft, mush. But it was fluent. And as I progressed, that first speech part was reduced in duration from the entirety of my speech to just the first syllable. Just the first sound. When I started using my fluency in public, it was a homework assignment. My speech therapist wanted me to make a couple of attempts, then report back. As with everything, my speech therapist sought to make adjustments. No one ever noticed the easy onset of that first sound. They never noticed my finger pressing and releasing against the table or my leg. As time went on, my fluency was just my new norm. I still have disfluent moments. When I'm extremely tired it will sometimes rear up a bit. Which is funny when a coworker hears it for the first time. I work with people and they have no idea I stutter. The speech therapist is so crucial to the process. I get the impression from this subreddit that many of us struggle to find qualified help.