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Thank you very much for the words of encouragement. Speech therapy is definitely my main aim at the minute. It just gets frustrating looking at fluent speakers who have jobs and can go out with friend...

I went to Hollins (HCRI) in Virginia and it helped. Intensive is a few weeks. Good tools and techniques. You’ll never cure it but can learn to manage it....

Hi, I’m seeing a mental health prescriber. I have a therapist and him. I’m so sorry it has affected you, it def has affected me my whole life. I don’t have a speech therapist anymore because it’s cons...

I'd do two things - speak to AIS (they offer free/discounted therapy) - their approach changed my life ([https://www.stutteringtreatment.org](https://www.stutteringtreatment.org)) and I'd practice stu...

If you're setting a goal of overcoming stuttering in one month you're setting yourself up for disappointment. If anyone could "overcome" stuttering in a month don't you think half the people here woul...

There are people who have been where you are who have made changes to their speech to the level where they were able to communicate and make friends and all that. It's not impossible. But it doesn't s...

I’d suggest using this one month to get into the habit of meditation and breathing exercises if you haven’t already. Any form of mental de-cluttering like journaling etc will help get unnecessary thou...

I have a partner who stutters, but it doesn't impact his life. I, however, have a chronic illness that (on most days lately atm), stops me from doing basic tasks. All I can do is cancel plans with fri...

Hey dude. I’ve been there. And I’m still at that point from time to time. I started seeing a therapist and it has helped tremendously. I’m almost 33 years old and recently I went to a Stuttering confe...

Toxic positivity would be "everything is fine bro don't worry about it" ​ The exact opposite of speaking to a professional about depressive feelings....

What this person said. This is more than a stutter. Go get some help....

Early childhood educator who finally addressed my own stutter in midlife. Mom/Dad, you are doing/thinking the right things for your kiddo. Please be very aware that many SLPs have near zero traini...

I haven’t read thru the answers here and may be somebody already answered it but speech therapy and put zero pressure on your child to improve the more you want to improve harder the stuttering gets. ...

Speech therapy with a SLP who specializes in stuttering. The SLP will work almost exclusively with stuttering patients. Avoid any psychologists or other generalists who have dabbled with stuttering. Y...

It's good you don't want to overreact, in the sense thst you don't want to make the child more self conscious about their stutter by exhibiting a negative reaction to it or communicating that stutteri...

Its not tru that your stutter can get better, i started speech teraphy a year ago and it helps, and there are a lot of other things that work for different people. I agree that you should accept the ...

It sounds like your family just doesn't understand depression. To be fair to them, that's not uncommon. Lots of people think depression is just a big sad and you just need to find some things to be ha...

Stuttering is genetic, so I would have her get screened by an SLP sooner rather than later. Speech therapy is usually more affective the younger the person is...

I went back to speech therapy last summer & was discharged after a few weeks because they said I didn’t need it. they just didn’t give me enough time to get comfortable around them (my stutter is ...

Im 17 now, I took speech classes all throughout elementary. My parents paid for it, and they still ask why I still stutter after taking those speech classes. I can't speak for everyone, but most of th...