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I assume you did fluency shaping. I did too. It's an inherently flawed therapy. It's not your fault. I even went to an intensive program for a few weeks and wrote a writeup about this stuff https://ww...

Nah. My Speech therapist was a scam. She would make me do some weird exercises with my tongue, tell me to lie down on the bed, then raise my leg and do some weird things. The only real advice she gave...

Speech therapy in my experience has always been 1.With people who don't stutter so therefore have no perspective on your situation 2. Treat your stutter like a defect that needs to be fixed 3. Offers ...

Speech Therapy

Speech Therapy ^(Has speech therapy been helpful for any of you? I've been going to speech therapy on and off for about 9 years. I found that it wasn''t that helpful as we would just play word games,...

A speech therapist would: * Provide a safe environment to talk about your experiences with an understanding audience and validate the challenge of stuttering. * Let you know that therapy doesn't cur...

*Feeling* hopeless is very understandable in your situation and if someone suggests otherwise, they are the problem. Notice I said feeling hopeless - I did not say “there is no hope” The good news ...

Also, know that if speech therapy didn’t work for you, it’s not your fault. Most SLP’s have zero training in treating dysfluency and can even teach you things that can make it worse (bc they are trea...

No one is “banning speech therapy for stutterers”. However, most speech therapists are *not trained to treat stuttering*, and their suggestions tend to make it worse… And I support trans, or maybe-t...

This comment reminds of when my speech therapist would explain all kinds of tactics during therapy that I was tasked to practice at home and during real life situations. Unfortunately, none of the tac...

This is a reply I made on a similar post. It was for someone who went to an intensive program, but it's essentially the same techniques. Your experience after the intensive speech therapy program is...

Yes, this is why in my opinion speech therapy is flawed. It doesn't address the real issue of stuttering...

I'm an SLP who stutters. It's stuff like this that diminishes the value of our profession. A spirometer it is not an evidence based therapeutic intervention for stuttering. Please find a new SLP - pre...

I'd recommend you find a new therapist. Did they explain the reason for this? Stuttering isn't a breathing disorder. You know how to breath....

Man i had same speech therapist when i was 19y she gave same exercise like yours doing exercise for breathing against blockades it’s doesn’t help nothing has just wasted my time and in the end i found...

Unless a SLP specializes in dysfluency, they will be ineffective, at best. This is bc they mostly have the tools to address problems in the mouth area (articulation and swallowing type disorders), an...

*person with a stutter who’s a final year speech pathologist student* Stammering is such a unique case to each individual that some methods of therapy won’t work for everyone. I, for example, have st...

I don’t get why speech therapy is so expensive and don’t really cure anyone or makes any difference in their speech...

Speech therapy doesn’t work because it’s like teaching a 6 feet person how to swim in the kids pool

Speech therapy doesn’t work because it’s like teaching a 6 feet person how to swim in the kids pool [deleted]...

stutter and rhotacism

stutter and rhotacism i have a pretty sever stutter and i also suffer from rhotacism (can’t pronounce rs) and i feel like that is a huge part of why speech therapy hasn’t worked for me even though i’v...

Helps them in what way exactly if their job is to “help” stutterers? It’s not a disease I agree but it’s something you can definitely beat and be stutter free and speech therapy doesn’t do that...