The two focuses of this camp was vocal prolongation and monitoring your speaking rate when you're talking. And as I mentioned in my first post, you are more likely to suffer a block when your vocal cords stop vibrating. The idea of vocal prolongation is that you're focusing on the vowel and using that as a bridge to finish the word or sentence. Our first week we focused on 3-second prolongation by doing just words then moving onto sentences by the end of the week. For example, if I was to say the word "Today." I would pronounce it as Tooooooooooday with really focusing on the "O" sound and holding the "O" for 3 seconds then finishing the word. You want to activate your vocal cords and keep them activated throughout the word. And you don't want to pronounce the word as To-day and have your vocal cords shut off between "to" and "day" because that's when you're going to stutter. It's the same approach when it comes to sentences and that's where monitoring your rate helps. If I was to say "My plan is to go to work today then stop by the grocery store on the way home." then I start it off by focusing on the "Y" sound in "My." You're not going to be able to finish that entire sentence without running out of breath so you have to break it up. So you say that sentence like this: "Myyyyyplanisto" **pause** "gooootoworktoday" **pause** "theeeenstopbythegrocerystoreonthewayhome" I found that it helps to start off with a monotonous sounding voice and bridging the words together is a way to keep your vocal cords moving. Once you feel comfortable with that then you can introduce inflection in your speech The last thing is that people who stutter tend to talk really fast because we are trying our damndest to get the words out as fast as possible to avoid an incoming block. We're also more self conscious of our speech patterns. Like even when I slow down my rate, I'm thinking to myself "Man I feel like I'm talking in slow motion" even though everyone I talked to said that my speech sounds normal. And obviously we can't go around talking by using 3-second prolongations. It's not natural so the goal is to minimize the prolongations. We reduced the prolongation to 2-seconds by the end of Week 2 then eventually reduced it to 1 second by Week 3. This isn't a cure-all thing, it takes practice just like if you were learning how to do a lay-up in basketball. You could nail them all the time in practice but then miss the shot if someone was to hit your arm on the way up. The idea is to keep practicing these techniques until it overwrites your original speaking pattern. I had a lot of carry over fluency when I finished the camp but I had to keep practicing and now I'm pretty much able to speak comfortably throughout the day at about 90% fluency with no stutter. It sucks ass that we have to practice speaking but it's better than struggling with stuttering.