Our first SLP sucked. Just told him to talk slowly. Our second SLP is great and we've learned a lot of shaping techniques and things like phrasing, easy onset, pullouts/cancellations, etc. We've been practicing at home for about 6 months- saw early improvement but back to square one now, which is frustrating for my son who was really excited when he thought he had "fixed" the stutter. Perhaps I just need to stay the course, but I feel a lot of guilt for seeing the 1st crappy SLP for a year with no progress. My son mostly stutters at the beginning of sentences, uses prolongation more than bumps or blocks.