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Yes I don’t stutter anymore. It’s been almost 3years. You can be fluent to just takes a lot of practice and consistency. DM me I can recommend you what has helped me overcome my stutter...

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Lets fight War analogy for stuttering In the analogy, stuttering consider as a war that we should win. Now blocks and other types of disfluencies are the enemies. And you are the fighter. At prese...

I wouldn’t advise it. If you can take a second to pause it out regain your breathe/rhythm you’ll be better off. Filler words often (from my own experiences/observation of those who stutter) the filler...

Hello Friend, Im so sorry this happened to you, I empathize a lot. I myself have been stuttering since kindergarten on and off then consistently since 5th grade. I am now turning 25 and it has not go...

While I understand that you probably learned to “take a big inhale…” from a speech therapist, unfortunately many receive almost no training in treating dysfluency. This, and other “techniques” may be...

While I understand that you probably learned to “take a big inhale…” from a speech therapist, unfortunately many receive almost no training in treating dysfluency. This, and other “techniques” may be...

Yes. It’s why many academics who specialize in dysfluency compare the experience of some stutterers to PTSD. (If you invent complex ways to avoid situations where you will have to speak your name or...

Voluntary stuttering and exposure are great. You can also add in - before speaking, make eye contact, and begin slowly and on an *exhale*....

I guess there are many ways, but the following worked for me. First learn speaking techniques to manage your blocks. For me this involved costal breathing, being very assertive on the first sound and...

It’s probably the pent-up stress that’s causing it. I’ve found that taking a breath and speaking on the exhale has personably helped me a lot. Do some research also into diaphragmatic breathing...

Don’t let it get you down too much. Don’t over-focus on what’s happened. The fact you tried is amazing. Keep trying in the future, take a breath and speak on the exhale and it may help prevent a block...

Back in 2001 I went to a 3 week intensive course down in Virginia Beach. The goal was similar to another comment on this thread, retrain your brain on how to speak. We learned how to speak fluently ...

Eliminate the inhale. Look at my post here for the science about it and a few other habits to go along with it...

Want to know why you keep pausing to take a new breath? It’s because you are taking unnecessary and stressful inhales. Eliminate the inhale. Just begin speaking in an exhale. You can even try it ...

I learned fluency. I see a lot of discussion about techniques, but I always infer that the techniques are presented as solutions. As if "starting your exhale before your voice" alone will improve flu...

Nothing, ever. Sorry I guess I’m not the person who’s supposed to respond to this 😂 All school based ST I had was dumb as shit, basically just practicing reading aloud slowly. Why anyone thought tha...

Sure, I've had stuttering blocks all my life. I had lost my job a few years ago and was quite depressed, so my family doctor gave me Paroxetine (An SSRI anti-anxiety/depression medication) to get th...

Those who feel that speech therapy has benefitted them - what exactly did you learn in speech therapy that has made such a difference to your life?

Those who feel that speech therapy has benefitted them - what exactly did you learn in speech therapy that has made such a difference to your life? For me - I’ve learnt a lot about reducing my anxiety...

I just use filler words - uhm, like, the... Or repeat the sentence from few words before and blurt the blocking word without any pause. There was a time I used to practice this exhale technique but i...

Some of the intensive programs (McGuire, DelFerro) evolve heavily around the breathing concept. I did the McGuire Programme and got learned diaphragmetic breathing / costal breathing. It did help redu...