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In my experience, and what I've observed here, PWS carry a lot of emotional baggage associated with our disfluency. I achieved fluency working with an SLP, but I certainly carried a lot of the stuttering mindset around for a long time after. Stuttering has such a profound impact on many of us during our formative years. The older I get, the more I believe that everyone can benefit from seeing a therapist. I'm pleased to hear that you're in speech therapy as well. In my experience, you get out of it what you put into it. I use the analogy of learning the piano for speech therapy. If you only work on it during lessons with your piano teacher, you're never going to improve. If you practice every day, that's where you develop and grow. IDK what type of speech therapy program you're in, but the "practice every day" for me was working through worksheets. 20 - 30 minutes twice a day practicing what I was learning in my sessions with the SLP. It was a developmental process. Progressing to the next level only after becoming competent at the previous stage. Many layers of development working towards fluency. Nor is it always progress. There were times where the SLP saw I was struggling, and we took a step or two back to an early stage and began working forward again from there. I'm truly looking forward to hearing about your successes.