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commentr/StutterNov 14, 2022
2 points

The more you talk about it the easier it gets. Just like practising any other skill. It’s also not a must to tell your deepest feelings about stuttering to anyone, unless you want to ofc. But I can t...

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commentr/StutterNov 12, 2022
7 points

>Is there any way to work on it, or should I fully accept it? These two are not mutually exclusive. In fact, acceptance typically correlates with essier stuttering. You can work on it, but gettin...

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commentr/StutterNov 10, 2022
2 points

There are some programs that do a decent job. Who have professors who get it. There are good SLPs for stuttering out there, but they do take searching. I wish they were easier to find. You can try to ...

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commentr/StutterNov 10, 2022
1 points

Who is the expert in your opinion then? No slp are taught speech therapy entirely in their school. They have one subject in the last semester...

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commentr/StutterNov 10, 2022
2 points

My husband stutters and last year, when our son was in kindergarten, he started stuttering pretty severely. Having really big blocks and face tightening. Almost identical to my husbands stutter. My p...

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commentr/StutterNov 10, 2022
12 points

>I feel it’s my duty as a mother to fix my stutter to help her How is you being fluent going to help her? Stuttering isn't a learned behavior. If anything she needs a role model to show her that s...

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commentr/StutterNov 10, 2022
2 points

And make sure the speech therapist is qualified in treating stuttering through the lidcombe program...

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commentr/StutterNov 10, 2022
3 points

when i was 13 i met with her bc my school speech therapist recommended her and now that i remember it (it was awhile ago) it was probably bc i was turning 18. she emailed me some therapists she knows ...

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commentr/StutterNov 10, 2022
1 points

Yikes Non-speech therapy will also help (for other insecurities too but it's hard to find a normal counselor/therapist that deals with stuttering that isn't an SLP) but a lot of my speech therapy was...

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commentr/StutterNov 10, 2022
2 points

my speech therapist told me to get an actual therapist who also knows about stuttering bc she cant help me 😭😭 she says i need actual help to get rid of my insecurities that i've piled up for the 18 ...

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commentr/StutterNov 9, 2022
6 points

A woman my mom met in birthing class (for me) was a school speech therapist, and they became best friends. I’ve stuttered since age 3 (40 yrs) and she never knew (bc I covered it up). As an early c...

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commentr/StutterNov 8, 2022
10 points

Hi, I stutter and have a daughter who used to stutter when she was young and grew out of it by her teenage years without help. Speech therapy didn't work for me as I went to public school speech thera...

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commentr/StutterNov 8, 2022
2 points

I could describe my 5 year old just like your daughter. Studies show that early intervention is best. If your school district won't evaluate her, check what your health insurance covers. Ours was a l...

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commentr/StutterNov 8, 2022
8 points

Hi, Please take her to a speech therapist. That is the right age to remove her stuttering....

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commentr/StutterNov 8, 2022
20 points

Hi, This is a familiar story for many of us. The problem is that doctors and teachers doesn't know anything about stuttering, even many speech language pathologists know little about stuttering. The...

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postr/StutterNov 8, 2022
33 points

Mom of Stutterer

Mom of Stutterer I hope it’s okay for me to post here, I’m just looking for a little insight. My daughter started stuttering when she was around 3 and since then, multiple teachers and doctors have to...

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commentr/StutterNov 7, 2022
1 points

What age did you begin stuttering and when did you get speech therapy? Was your therapist trained in fluency and did you go through the Lidcombe program? And I’ve gone to speech therapy before, regula...

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commentr/StutterNov 7, 2022
10 points

>if we just got therapy on time, we wouldn’t have developed fear, avoidance, anxiety, etc. You don't know that. I'd been in speech therapy all throughout my childhood and I still developed all th...

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commentr/StutterNov 7, 2022
3 points

Make sure it’s with a stuttering specialist, not just a speech therapist who works with stutterers. We get a single 12-week course over stuttering in grad school and everyone who doesn’t specialize in...

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commentr/StutterNov 7, 2022
3 points

I had speech therapy as a teenager for two years then again for three weeks as a top up as a 25 year old. One of the best things I’ve ever done...

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