I put this in another thread about how I handle my stutter, if this helps even one person I'd be stoked: I had a very bad stuttering problem from 7th -10th grade. I was very lucky that I wasn't teased in school. I've been to specialists when I was younger and honestly, none of them really worked out. I don't stutter nearly as much as I used to, but to this day when I "feel" a stutter coming on I go back to an old trick I invented for myself. Now for all I know, this technique already has a name, and if it does, then so be it. Here's what I did/do: I know the letters I'll stutter on: hard C's (coal, cord, cart, etc), hard G's (goal, golf, etc). When I know what I'm going to say includes a word with a letter I know I'll stutter on, I'll change the word completely using a synonym (that won't cause me to stutter). My sentence means the same thing, I just used different words. For example. If I wanted to say to someone: "It's cold outside" In my head, I know I'm going to stutter on the C in cold. So as I'm speaking, I change Cold to "Freezing". I know I won't stutter on the "FR" in freezing. "It's freezing outside" It means the same thing to the person you're talking to, they'll have no idea idea you changed the word in your head before you spoke, and it won't cause you to stutter. At least it didn't for me. I thought I'd just pass that along. This technique has saved me more times than I can remember.