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Those moments are likely too difficult/intense for your ability at the time. You need to build up the conditioning to resist blocking and make sound instead. It may not work **now** in **those** momen...

You can, it just feels like you can't Nobody is holding your mouth shut. Everything is something you are doing, that you have learned to unconsciously do, probably when you were a kid. The good news ...

I started stuttering at 3 years old. Stuttering wasn't understood well back then, so nothing was done for me. My daughter started at the same age. Doctors will tell you most kids will outgrow it, and ...

According to my mother, I started stuttering when my younger sister started to talk. I was around 3. My dad stuttered, so he recognized it right away. Started speech therapy before pre-school. Kept ...

I think it’s difficult to say, however: My speech therapist once told me that when parents come to them with a stuttering child they usally recommend not doing anything about it (unless it makes thing...

Please please please make sure they specialize in dysfluency. If not, they are likely to have no true training in it, and will treat it as if you have an articulation disorder (like a lisp). If you ...

I am finally getting speech therapy!

I am finally getting speech therapy! I've been dealing with a stutter since I was 9, and finally, a week before I turn 32 I am FINALLY getting therapy for it. I'm so happy right now I can't believe ...

I believe that the majority (if not all) SLP graduate programs will teach a course on stuttering, with further training during clinicals and continuing education. SLP here 🙃...

How long have you been stuttering? Have you been to a speech pathologist? Practiced breathing techniques?...

I’ve known many SLPs with no awareness of dysfluency (socially, personally, and professionally). A SLP without proper knowledge is often *more harmful* than nothing. There are great sources that h...

Right, that's definitely true! I don't think someone /has/ to have a speech therapist (Although it does help greatly for many, I think) but moreso just someone neutral to help you with practising flue...

If you have the money to private pay for a *SLP who specializes in dysfluency*, then definitely do that. But if you don’t, then a motivated person can consume info (articles, podcasts, etc) from legi...

There are definitely habits and exercises that can help talk more fluently, but even for that I personally think it's best done with the help of a speech therapist or similar, because if you try pract...

There are definitely habits and exercises that can help talk more fluently, but even for that I personally think it's best done with the help of a speech therapist or similar, because if you try pract...

I'm no expert, but when I get stressed my chest tightens and that makes it difficult for me to get words out, often ending in a stutter. there is a method I use called costal breathing, which helps. ...

You’re right about Covid making things worse. I see your point on putting yourself out there. I will do my best and do that more often. I took speech therapy too and also did not help me in the long r...

You should check out the McGuire Programme, they are a worldwide group for stutterers and they do 3 day intensive courses and also online courses now. They have helped me a lot :)...

I understand. I really hope you’ll find a solution for you. As far as I understand so far, stuttering treatment is still a very individual thing....

In my case no time doesn't help anything really except the older I get the less I care if I stutter in public or not. If you get lazy and let time go by without actively putting yourself out there &am...

Hypnosis

Hypnosis Has anyone tried hypnosis to try and get rid of a stutter ? 😭😭😭 would it work ?...