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There are strategies you can practice (e.g., easy onset, prolongation) to help you out during a moment of dysfluency and other strategies to use to work on secondary characteristics (e.g. anxiety arou...

Acceptance and desensitization of your stutter allows therapy to be more effective. It's easiernto implement a technique if you're not overcome by negative emotions during a stuttering moment...

To stop stuttering when saying your name you have to practice that, the rest I'm not sure, don't be so hard on yourself, your bioligy predisposes you to get triggered by the events you mentioned, I kn...

If you can say Stevie fluently when alone then you can do it anytime, right? I tell myself this same logic on names or words that I might block on. Finally after many years, I have techniques that hel...

Really? It has worked for me many years now... Maybe I'm not using the right words, english is not my first language...

Not my case! I can talk without problem with this method. Maybe it sounds odd to a listener but it works for me...

Just a suggestion....don't think of your stutter as a beast or something to tame. It is something you do and it is something you can learn to undo IMO. I have stuttered for 55 years, much less now t...

I recommend toastmasters! Along with CBT, look up somatic therapy. While CBT helps you change your mindset and how you handle external situations, somatic therapy focuses on how your body has been t...

My name begins with a plosive constant, where the first sound of my name is formed by blocking airflow in the mouth and then releasing it, and I always have a terrible time saying it. Think of trying...

the course was called the Mcguire programme. a 4 day intensive course (I think it's 3 days now) and they give you the breathing techniques and mental tools to overcome blocks , and confidence to talk ...

It took too long to realize that focusing on slow, deliberate speech and managing anxiety made a bigger difference than striving for perfection....

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Update I wrote a while ago about my experience with speech therapy and the exercise and the methods I used to low my stutter infort people and here what happened with me after 1 month 1- I have red...

Did reading out loud substantially help you in your journey of overcoming stutter??

Did reading out loud substantially help you in your journey of overcoming stutter?? ...

My experience through an interview (+ ADA question)

My experience through an interview (+ ADA question) This is actually my first post! I recently had a 30 min virtual interview today for an Analyst role that I am really excited about, and I wanted to ...

Does light contact work for you? I find that even the slightest touch of my speech articulators can cause them to block....

Hello, you are absolutely right. Using light contact when pronouncing words that start with consonants is important. However, I believe consonants find meaning when combined with vowels. We can’t si...

I see, so you're saying the vocal cords should always be vibrating during speech, like you're always maintaining a hum. This could work for some sounds but not for others. In the english language, t...

Hi. Thank you for your comment. It might seem that way, but there are some fundamental differences. These are the conscious vibration of the vocal cords after the airflow and slowing down the speech...

I have success with not letting my mouth/face/neck get tense during the sound. Let the ST be softer than your mind is trying to make it. Also, on bad days I may think of the “d” sound instead of the...

Some things that’s helped me was knowing that it’s ok to pause when speaking. Listening to speakers helped me realize that. This will usually in the form of a long inhale (inhaling also gives me a sli...