>I’ve tried pausing,breathing,slowing my speech but it doesn’t help. It’s just embarrassing sometimes. This [PDF](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1opUcoqG3jpIrRt3-Dh2_PTta-GEMr__s/view?usp=sharing) document has tips if pausing, breathing or slowing down your speech isn't helping enough. Tips that I got from this PDF are: * perceive the words you want to articulate as less important. Just do it (just choose to move speech muscles) without wanting it. Because 'wanting' creates a gap, reinforcing that fluency is good and stuttering is a failure which results in your subconscious stopping with sending command signals to your speech muscles if you perceive that you need to articulate the word too appropriately * learn to recognize your [speech plan](https://i.imgur.com/mEjr1hu.png) and learn to analyze (*whenever you are in a speech block*) how it stops sending a command signal to your speech muscles (causing a speech block) * don't be bothered by dysfluencies and speech errors and don't 'try' to directly operate the feedforward system (because even non-stutterers cannot do this) * skip the sound that you already said. Basically, if you are blocking then you already spoke that one sound, which means, instead of re-trying the sound (or reformulating the speech plan), just continue to the next sound. The letter /I/ has 4 different sounds, so instead of skipping a letter, you are just skipping a sound and continue to the next sound of the same letter which leads to constantly re-positioning your tongue, jaw, larynx and respiratory muscles