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My experience is that the only way for therapy to have affect is continuous daily work. I spent years going to a therapist in weekly sessions, it had no effect. I'm sure that SLP was clueless on how...

When I was given tools to 'help' my stutter and they didn't work, I often thought it was because I wasn't using the tools correctly or that I wasn't doing it right. It never occurred to me (and my the...

Just a thought; the reason could be that you have worked so much on your speech technique but you haven’t learned the feeling of speaking and being spontaneous. You may have learned to control your sp...

Pediatric Speech Pathologist, Specializing In Stuttering: Tell me your roses and thorns!

Pediatric Speech Pathologist, Specializing In Stuttering: Tell me your roses and thorns! I am a stutterer myself, and studied under Barry Guitar, the guru of the field. However, I am always looking f...

How are you working on your fluency? 24 months shows a great level of dedication and effort. You should be commended for your perseverance. At the same time, I would expect most people to see signif...

No. In essence self talking is very different from talking to others. First off, self talking can give you time intervals to prepare your articulations and expressions, not included in real dialogues...

Speech therapy differs. If you haven't had success so far, try a different speech therapist. In this subreddit, I've read members describe therapy that made me cringe. I had a severe stutter from earl...

I've gotten a similar question before. As such, I copied the following from previous responses. Apologies to those in the group reading this for the umpteenth time ;) \[Background\] I was a stuttere...

Stuttering Research Opportunity: Speech Therapy Experiences Survey

Stuttering Research Opportunity: Speech Therapy Experiences Survey Hi everyone, my name is Jaclyn Lucey and I'm a Speech-Language Pathologist and a PhD student at the University of South Florida. For ...

I am glad I was helpful! Yeah speech therapy can be quite helpful. A good therapist will focus on techniques and also the emotional counseling side of stuttering too BTW. It is a two-fold situation....

Thank you for the tips. I’ve taken speech therapy when I was younger and it’s helped me a bit but I think my stutter is one that’s more dependent on age since even after I stopped therapy I still impr...

That sounds horrible. Nothing you said was at all similar to my experience. In fact, I remember one of the initial instructions I received in therapy was "Don't try this at home or outside of therapy...

I'm sorry you had a bad experience. Would you care to share your speech therapy experience? I'm always interested in hearing what other programs were like. Both success stories and failures....

Tried speech therapy , hated every minute , not only it did not work it made my whole existence trying to overcome my stutter . Which got me into depression...

Any Advice for a Parent of 6 year old who stutters every now and then

Any Advice for a Parent of 6 year old who stutters every now and then I have a 6 year old son who stutters but it is very noticeable at times and not so much other times. He is getting therapy with...

😆 well I think something like that. She noticed that I liked to draw characters at that time so she had me draw a stutter monster and then envision it in my mind during the meditation. Her whole conc...

Yes I did stop. Need to try it again. I was very young at the time and wanted more help from that certain therapist but she moved onto somewhere else. Her meditation consisted of me visualizing a st...

Oh I should add, if you find your way into a wellbeing service and get treatment of some kind like CBT, it's definitely worth bringing up you speech at the beginning. I was very luck and had a great t...

You work both independently and with the speech therapist. You do most of the practising on your own and then both you and the speech therapist decide on what challenging speaking situations to work o...

What was your experience with the SLP Barabara Dahm?

What was your experience with the SLP Barabara Dahm? Hello everyone, I am contemplating getting speech therapy with a therapist named Barbara Dahm. I believe she might be well known as I've heard her ...