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commentr/StutterNov 3, 2024
-1 points

Yeah it sounds like your advice to slow down and make your stutter be known. This is nothing revolutionary and Nothing that ANY of us haven’t heard before from speech therapy...

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Fluency TechniquesTherapy Experiences
commentr/StutterNov 3, 2024
11 points

Your stutter is automated and habitual, body's default way of doing speech. To change this you have to recondition your mind to use a different pattern, almost like force yourself to write with the ot...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacyTherapy & Professional
Avoidance & SubstitutionFluency TechniquesTherapy Experiences
commentr/StutterNov 2, 2024
2 points

Hey, so glad to hear your presentation went well. I hope you continue practicing and bring your rate of speech down. It can be hard to maintain our rate of speech in real life, but it can be done thro...

Coping & AdvocacyEmotional Experience
Fluency TechniquesHope & Motivation
postr/StutterNov 2, 2024
29 points

The Hardest Yet Best Day of My Life

The Hardest Yet Best Day of My Life A month ago, I had to present my graduation project, which required me to develop an application, explain it verbally, describe the written portion, and answer ques...

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & AvoidanceTherapy & Professional
Fluency TechniquesOverthinking & MonitoringPositive Therapy Techniques
commentr/StutterNov 1, 2024
3 points

It's not a big problem. You just need to readjust your targets. Be as obsessive about using techniques for achieving a fluid, relaxed speech instead. Let your brain buzz you with suggestions like: sho...

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance
Fluency TechniquesOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
1 points

These sounds are hard because larynx needs to quickly close and open to pronounce them and the following vowels correctly, while our larynx gets easily stuck in closed position, hence the blocks. You...

Coping & AdvocacySpeech & Stuttering
Fluency TechniquesBlocks & Stoppages
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
1 points

If your able to, Something I do that personally helps me is that I put an earbud in my ear and turn on a metronome on my phone and try to find a rhythm that I can match my speech to. Something comfort...

Therapy & ProfessionalCoping & Advocacy
Assistive DevicesFluency Techniques
postr/StutterOct 31, 2024
8 points

Practicing stutter blocks

Practicing stutter blocks Anyone had success with practice to help their condition? I have a bad time with phone calls and starting words with g c k and d. I’m thinking ima make a lot of phone calls ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Feared Words & NamesFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
3 points

I do my best to do that, but I flow with articulation (step 4) I then subconsciously begin to thin...

Coping & Advocacy
Fluency Techniques
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
2 points

I've been reading the DARE approach for anxiety and it talks about exposure and to accept anxiety and roll with it, instead of trying to avoid it. I think it's even more relevant for work situations, ...

Coping & Advocacy
Fluency TechniquesVoluntary Stuttering & Exposure
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
2 points

The only thing that helps me is when I try to break what I want to say in sentences instead of saying everything all at once. Try this. Speak and sentence starting with an inhale and the speak while y...

Coping & AdvocacySpeech & Stuttering
Fluency TechniquesBlocks & Stoppages
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
8 points

Yes sort of. I’m definitely a covert stutterer. Speech therapy, working on anxiety, and speaking slowly and softly help. If I have an intense emotion, all my skills get thrown out the window. Someti...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & AdvocacyCauses & Variability
Hiding & ConcealmentFluency TechniquesEnergy & Biological Rhythms
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
3 points

If you’re scared then do it scared. Of course you’re gonna be nervous but that’s what having a stutter does lol. You’ll do well bro trust. Aside from that, advice to reduce is to breath and talk slo...

Causes & VariabilityCoping & AdvocacyEmotional Experience
Stress & Fight/FlightFluency TechniquesHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
1 points

Yes, talking while drinking helped tremendously, as well as giving yourself a different accent when you talk (I picked southern US as it was closest). I think both of these processes shift the neural ...

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commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
2 points

I think you are on the right track by recording yourself, you just need to practice some more. Have fun with it and take control of your voice, instead of speaking too fast. After some time you’ll get...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2024
2 points

There isn't a known cure yet. The only FDA pending drug being developed that I'm aware of is one by Gerald Maguire M.D. Sometimes it goes away on it's own for some people or the severity diminished as...

Causes & VariabilityCommunity & SupportCoping & Advocacy
Severity & FluctuationResearch & ResourcesFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2024
0 points

I don’t think there’s any type of cure for it, the best you can do is to cope with it and use techniques to work around the stutter...

Coping & Advocacy
Fluency Techniques
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2024
3 points

Do whatever makes you feel confident and forget what anyone else thinks. It’s very difficult to not care and just stutter and allow people to see it but practice makes perfect...

Identity & DisabilityCoping & Advocacy
Acceptance & PrideFluency Techniques
postr/StutterOct 30, 2024
4 points

App to help stutterers with presentations and speeches smoothly

App to help stutterers with presentations and speeches smoothly Hi all, my friend (a stutterer) is making an app to help stutterers deliver presentations smoothly. Who here would think that would be u...

Community & SupportCoping & AdvocacyTherapy & Professional
Research & ResourcesFluency TechniquesAssistive Devices
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2024
3 points

The variable is knowing people are listening... Could you try this experiment and tell us the results? Pick a subject that requires you to speak about a topic you are knowledgeable about or just yo...

Emotional ExperienceCoping & Advocacy
Anxiety & Social JudgmentFluency Techniques