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commentr/StutterAug 1, 2024
1 points

While there is no cure there are definitely ways to improve your stutter and manage it better...

Community & SupportCoping & Advocacy
Advice RequestsFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterAug 1, 2024
3 points

It helped me learning to breathe properly through my nose. It makes me ore relaxed, speak more calmly and less stuttering. Breathing properly is very important for us....

Coping & Advocacy
Mindfulness & BreathingFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJul 31, 2024
1 points

Expensive ear devices like speecheasy tend to wear off until the positive effects are gone, and it would have been better without the device. Ear pieces make use of the choral effect. A cheaper alt...

Coping & AdvocacyTherapy & Professional
Fluency TechniquesAssistive Devices
postr/StutterJul 31, 2024
11 points

Some of my best tips that may help you!

Some of my best tips that may help you! Here are some tips on how I have improved: Diaphragmatic breathing exercises- these have helped a lot. Search on YouTube for tips on how to begin practicing th...

Coping & AdvocacyEmotional Experience
Mindfulness & BreathingVoluntary Stuttering & ExposureFluency Techniques+1 more
commentr/StutterJul 31, 2024
2 points

Here are some tips on how I have improved: Diaphragmatic breathing exercises- these have helped a lot. Search on YouTube for tips on how to begin practicing this. Mindfulness helps and general relaxat...

Coping & Advocacy
Fluency TechniquesMindfulness & BreathingVoluntary Stuttering & Exposure
postr/StutterJul 31, 2024
3 points

How to improve speaking skills

How to improve speaking skills I stammer very often and somethimes even feel breathless I want to improve my speaking and orating skills in general Please suggest, how I can do it ? ...

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance
Fluency TechniquesAvoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterJul 30, 2024
2 points

I used to do plays when I was younger and having a script I could follow really helped my fluency, even when I was nervous and in front of what felt like a lot of people. That's just my anecdotal expe...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Preparation & RehearsalFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJul 30, 2024
4 points

Practice for what you are going to say in that presentation everyday until you become very confident and know what to say, speak slowly and avoid eye contact, you can take a pause while you are speaki...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceCoping & Advocacy
Preparation & RehearsalAnxiety & Social JudgmentFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJul 29, 2024
2 points

There are actually tangible habits you can learn that will dramatically decrease your fear-blocking. They are free to learn and use, safe, very effective if done properly, but hard and scary....

Coping & AdvocacyEmotional Experience
Fluency TechniquesAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterJul 29, 2024
3 points

Yay.. looks like you’ve found something about your stutter that you can try experimenting with during conversations. This is the first step of awareness … most pws try to run away from their stutterin...

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance
Fluency TechniquesOverthinking & MonitoringMindset shift
commentr/StutterJul 29, 2024
3 points

Yes i had, mostly those come at the end of your breathing, but try the put yourself into a relax state of mind, and breathe out your first word in the beginning of your sentence, when you exhale, not ...

Coping & AdvocacyEmotional ExperienceAnticipation & Avoidance
Fluency TechniquesHope & MotivationOverthinking & Monitoring+1 more
commentr/StutterJul 29, 2024
1 points

When it come,s to breathing techniques it helped me a lot during phone calls and word stretch + over Articulation with normal conversation for example infront of a Supermarket Shopkeeper...

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance
Fluency TechniquesOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterJul 29, 2024
5 points

I Stutter on words that Start with T . In my country people speak Urdu similar to arabic and hindi and its words that start T are very hard to say for me And i searched all words with T started to p...

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance
Fluency TechniquesOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterJul 28, 2024
5 points

Wow, that is very encouraging to hear. Can you give more details about your experience? Like in what age did you stop stuttering? Did you use any techniques or anything?...

Community & SupportCoping & Advocacy
Personal StoriesFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJul 28, 2024
3 points

That's exactly what I meant when I said: "Then, in attempts to break this vicious cycle we are trying to correct those involuntary physiological responses, e.g, relax the muscles, change the breath, w...

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance
Fluency TechniquesOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterJul 28, 2024
2 points

Sometimes if i have a history of blocking over a certain word, i try to change the words in front of that word. Like instead of simply saying “name”, i might say something like “hi, my name is nam...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Avoidance & SubstitutionFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJul 28, 2024
7 points

I’m a mild stutterer, now mid 40s. I have: Trained my confidence, both in talking and in appearance. Learned to speak calmly, I used to speak too fast. Tried to enjoy speaking with people, instead of...

Identity & DisabilityCoping & AdvocacyEmotional Experience
Acceptance & PrideFluency TechniquesHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterJul 28, 2024
15 points

I've articulated with great intention every word i pronounced to make myself free of the worry that people would not understand what i'm saying and ask me to repeat what i said. By articulating with m...

Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Fluency TechniquesAcceptance & PrideAuthenticity vs. Masking+1 more
commentr/StutterJul 27, 2024
5 points

I think, that multiple psychological reasons cause the blocking, like fear, stress, past memory, fixation on certain syllables, etc. All of this leads to physiological responses, like muscle spasms,...

Causes & VariabilityAnticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Stress & Fight/FlightAvoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring+1 more
commentr/StutterJul 27, 2024
3 points

Not a doctor but a short time using SRIs worked for my stutter 25+ years ago. Not because they removed the actual act of stuttering but because they gave me a breather from the anticipatory hell of it...

Meds & SubstancesCauses & VariabilityAnticipation & Avoidance
Helpful Med OutcomesStress & Fight/FlightAvoidance & Substitution+3 more