commentr/StutterJuly 10, 2025

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Sadly, stuttering is severely under taught and often misrepresented in grad school for SLPs. Fluency is very heavily pushed and almost as a requirement, especially for therapists that have been practicing for a while. Things in therapy are meant to be taught to give a person the best chance for success in their life, but it doesn’t mean they have to do it all the time. It’s exhausting and tiring having to monitor your speech all the time. Sometimes, it’s nice to be able to talk how I want without filtering. That being said, wanting to be more fluent and have easier speech is 10000% ok. My speech got exponentially better because of therapy and I’m glad I did it. That being said, with life long stuttering, there will always be some disfluencies. There is no cure and it never magically goes away. If she wants to use them, then absolutely wonderful! If she doesn’t want to use them, then absolutely wonderful all the same. If she is comfortable with her stutter, then let her! If she wants to modify it a bit, then she has the freedom to. Something I always have my stuttering parents try out is to spend a day stuttering like your child. See how much attention you have to spend and be aware of your speech, purposefully manipulating what and how you say something, notice the responses from people around you, how difficult it may be to constantly modify your speech into something that is the not the natural response. It helps give an added perspective into what that may feel like every day for them.

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Identity & DisabilityCoping & Advocacy

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Acceptance & PrideFluency TechniquesSelf-Advocacy & Boundaries