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Speaking on exhales

Speaking on exhales Has this been talked about? This is a speech therapy technique, you take a big breath and speak as you’re letting it out. It’s not physically possible to stutter when you’re breat...

That seems great , anything that breaks up the normal speech pattern helps decrease stuttering. Many people dont stutter when they speak with a foreign accent for example. Of course that’s not an opti...

My Throat Technique

My Throat Technique One of the techniques for improving fluency is to change the tone. Sometimes we feel embarrassed about doing this because it always seems unnatural. In the last few days I have bee...

Probably if you were fluent., you wouldn’t be on this sub. I’m not fluent but I stutter much less than before and it doesn’t bother me anymore. I’ve written a few posts here about how I did it...

I've done 5 presentations in front of hundreds of people in the past 2 weeks (school opening). Go slow. Go very slow. Switch words. No one knows your speech. Only you know. If you say "food" instead...

Conversation topic: Has anyone here achieved fluency?

Conversation topic: Has anyone here achieved fluency? What did you do to get to where you are now? How long have you been fluent for?...

I love all of the support you are getting on here. It's so awesome. The only thing I might add, is that if you decide to go the practice route, you eliminate words that might trigger a stutter. You go...

Personally, how I survived presenting (in class or at work) is to actually not to practice or write a "script". I found that forcing myself to say certain words in a certain order triggers me more (mu...

I'm 30 years old. This is what I would suggest to my younger-self in school: 1. Practice in front of the mirror. This should be the only thing in your mind until the presentation is finished. Eithe...

Practise is key. Constant practise. Within the approximate timeframe of how long your presentation should be, record yourself with a timer on your phone and keep practising the words until you memori...

The good thing about presentations is you can use a louder than normal voice. Talking from your diaphragm like how a singer does while performing or when a person is angry prevents stuttering. To do t...

Don't know why some of these comments talking about practice are getting downvoted.. It's a valid tip and one that has worked for me many times during my professional life....

My tip is to speak slowly and steady. Do plenty and plenty of practicing whilst speaking slower than your normal tempo. Don’t worry or think about others, focus purely on the presentation and I repeat...

Practice, film yourself. Practice. Practice. Be confident. I had to do a presentation alone in front of 40 people. The first one I had a panic attack. The second one (a few months later) people cam...

Prepare. Prepare. Prepare. Know what you're talking about. If you're confident in the material your speaking about it could triumph over your fear of stuttering and within a little while your time wil...

Just from my experience, I find this slightly ok. Speaking slightly louder, whilst not useful on normal conversations, does help in a presentation so you might do better than you’re thinking...

That is solid thinking. Running would only build anxiety and make things worse when you next need to do it. I give talks to groups of people. I practice the shit out each one. When presenting, I am d...

Think about it this way: failure is not if you stutter during your presentation. Failure is not trying. I give tons of presentations nowadays. I’ve stuttered as long as I can remember. I find that a p...

Those are great goals in general. But they are unlikely to make much impact in the moment if someone is actively panicking or planning dramatic avoidance behaviors. I’ve written a post in this sub ...

From the perspective of SLPs who are trained n dysfluency, for many, replying on word substitutions are unfortunately one reason your stutter will become *more* impactful in the future. Please don’t ...