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Interview Hi everyone! I am a graduate student in a Speech-Language Pathology program. I have an assignment where I need to conduct an interview with someone who stutters. I was wondering if anyone wo...

For me, it's anxiety. I've always felt like mental health therapy went much further than speech therapy. That's just me, but my speech therapy was in the late 80s...

Really insightful stuff here. I am also a stutter and have had it for as long as I can remember. I have taken a number of speech therapy classes as an adult but these were I felt too late for me. I h...

Really insightful stuff here. I am also a stutter and have had it for as long as I can remember. I have taken a number of speech therapy classes as an adult but these were I felt too late for me. I h...

Therapists know people but the problem is they don't know stuttering and what it means, how it affects us. Therapists can be helpful, but if your focus is stuttering a quality slp would be the best op...

It depends, a therapist wouldn't tell you how to talk or what techniques to use. But if you have anxiety, stress, or depression due to stuttering he would help you to deal with those feelings and be a...

My SLP recommended a psychologist because the occurences and severity of my stuttering was heightened due to social anxiety and nervousness. The anxiety and nervousness was due to the way I think and ...

I hired a therapist to help me cope with the mental health aspect of Stuttering...

yes I am doing therapy at the speech therapist but it is not helping me and my speech therapist suggested me to visit a psychologist...

Psychologists are for when you have psychological issues. If you have psychological issues due to stuttering, a psychology might help with that. Perhaps in turn that would help you with the stuttering...

I'd suggest a speech-language therapist if you haven't sought out one already. They can help improve your motor control of the pharynx and larynx. Perhaps a psychologist can employ some cognitive-beha...

what do you think the psychologist can help about stuttering?

what do you think the psychologist can help about stuttering? [deleted]...

Even among speech therapists, sooo many have zero real experience with stuttering, and finding therapists who have enough experience to be useful can be a challenge. Although Dean Williams wrote about...

Speech therapy is just one aspect to managing your speech and fluency. Stress management for example is an important part of it, because unfortunately our speech motor system needs to be more carefull...

And again, that's something I'd call managing. But we don't have to agree on wording. We know what both of us mean, I'm sure....

Yeah, that's one way to manage it. It's not a technical term, and it doesn't refer to a singular thing. It's just the word I've landed on over time through attempts at expressing my sentiments in here...

My first day of speech therapy the therapist told me that I wasn't there to become "fluent" and that that wasn't the end goal. The goal is to learn techniques that work for you to manage as best we ca...

Is there more to speech therapy than just “fluency”?

Is there more to speech therapy than just “fluency”? I stopped going to speech therapy when I was 16, I couldn’t really afford it anymore but my stutter was manageable to I was fine with it. Fast forw...

Yeah, I do. But of course, we don't all stutter the same, and we don't all have the same mindset about it, so I'm not sure what specific use you'd have of my story, to be honest. I think you're going...

I stuttered all through childhood and had to do speech classes all through elementary since I also had a speech impediment. I don't stutter like I use to but I still do every once in a while. I also c...