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After 3 years of therapy I’m getting there too, and that’s the outlook I’m closest too! Good on you my brother....

That is really where I am at right now. My first experience with intensive therapy made me believe that speech therapy/fluency skills was the key and all I need to achieve fluency. That isn’t the case...

I’m 23 and I’ve stuttered since I could talk. I went to school speech therapy from kindergarten to around 9th grade. I don’t remember it doing anything for me, really. Most of the progress I made was ...

Hi, I am SLP working in field of stuttering, but outside of the US. You have great programs for working with attitudes and acceptance of stuttering which are available at stutteringhelp.org. Some of t...

I had therapy in elementary school, as well as high school, but I also had the luxury of being able to go and get therapy at the local university. This therapy was with people who were almost done w/ ...

I stutter so bad when I read aloud that I just don't anymore. No matter how much I do it, it doesn't improve...

That's probably something that can take a long time to arrive at. Did you keep working on it with the therapist?...

Did not do it once the pandemic hit but have been able to return to it since last week. I’ve been shown techniques like easy onset, light articulate contact, and prolonging but once I need them the mo...

Forgot to mention it, I have received speech therapy here and there growing up but it has not been effective...

Hi, I'm in graduate school to officially become a speech therapist as well. I'm working with a 16 year old who has a moderate to severe stutter & struggles with self esteem. I'm trying to incorpor...

Like any profession you have people who care and are dedicated and then people who don't really care and don't try. That would be a less than ideal setting to work with a student, especially with som...

Wow, that was really shitty. But, since she was obviously not a good therapist and didn't care to become one, she likely would have caused you more problems if she actually tried to work with you. I f...

Hey, thanks for reaching out and asking this question. I know stuttering can be intimidating to work with. Most programs don't teach you how to help kids who stutter or teach it poorly. My experience...

I've had 20 years of speech therapy and during the first 12 years, I was trained on how to be "fluent". This made me feel broken. Later in my therapy, I learned the mental health aspect which taug...

Well, stuttering isn't quite like riding a bike. It's not that we don't know how to speak, it just that stuttering tends to get in the way. If you had, like, a stick in your wheels randomly sometimes...

Dude this hit so hard. It sucks. They don't get it. They won't. So as you said, fuck that shit. Give yourself a break. And when you're in a better place, try to work on that aspect again. I stopped sp...

Hello, I'm just like you. I have adhd and have stuttered from a very young age. There are periods in which is better other when it gets worse. I've been to various speech therapists and nothing seemed...

It happens to be but a lot less than around people. My mother tongue is Spanish, in which I verbally communicate the most. That's the language I stutter the most in too. And in which I'm attempting to...

I think about #2 all the time - why is fluent speech the ultimate goal? My speech therapists used to tell me that the goal is to have my needs met and that's it. They never made it about being fluent ...

You are totally right it is much easier said than done. And everyone's approach to it is different. When I was in speech therapy we did a lot of live practicing. Literally call actual places and ask...