commentr/StutterNovember 12, 2023

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I'm sorry you haven't found a decent SLP. I often say that finding a good SLP is the biggest challenge we face. I always cringe when I hear "techniques." And correct me if I am incorrectly reading how you are using the term. But most often when I hear people speak of techniques for fluency, it seems they are using these techniques individually / separately. e.g. As if using easy onset alone will help your fluency. I like using the learning to play piano analogy for stuttering / fluency. You can be taught the notes (techniques), but you must be able to use the notes together. There's a progression to becoming fluent. And you don't learn to play the C note and then try to play piano in front of an audience. You work with your SLP in private. You practice in private. Your SLP corrects your techniques after you've practiced every day since your last session. Or your SLP introduces the next progression in the program if you are demonstrating mastery of the current level of progression. Round and round as you develop and practice. Getting instruction and correction along the way. Never playing for an audience while you're still developing your new fluency. Not until you're confident and capable in your fluency. And then a gradual introduction of your fluency into the outside world. The speech therapy I received didn't try to correct my stutter. It was a ground up progression from in which my stutter was never present in learning to speak fluently. There were points where my stutter might present, but we'd back up to an earlier 'level' where I was fluent, and then start forward from that point again.

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Therapy & Professional

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Therapy ExperiencesPositive Therapy Techniques