commentr/StutterAugust 29, 2024

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This times a million ☝️ Speech therapy for stuttering shouldn’t be focused on speech at all. It should be more focused on the emotional and social aspects. It’s worth knowing a few good tricks to get around the biggest blocks…. but apart from that, focusing on speech itself just makes you more self conscious and tense about how you talk. Fluent people don’t think about talking fluently, they just DO. Likewise, if you want to speak more fluently, don’t think about how you talk. Just talk and don’t worry. Just forget about this thing called stuttering. You are allowed to talk however you talk. If you stutter, so what?

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Therapy & ProfessionalIdentity & DisabilityCoping & Advocacy

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Therapy ExperiencesAcceptance & PrideMindset shift