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Throat hurts

Throat hurts So basically my stuttering got worse again.. I had a presentation at school and got a C. I dot rly care about the grade but basically everyone agreed she just rated my on my speech and h...

Ive had a stutter all my life, and have been going to speech therapy ever since i was around 4-5 yrs old. It has only changed, not gotten better

Ive had a stutter all my life, and have been going to speech therapy ever since i was around 4-5 yrs old. It has only changed, not gotten better I used to have a more stereotypical stutter (ex: “s-s-s...

Seconded. The best way (I’ve found) to fluency is to slow down and practice moving from sound to sound. Then slowly increase speed. Secondary behaviours can definitely become compulsive. I’ve thrown ...

Do you mean 'secondary behaviors'? Those aren't really coping mechanisms, those are just habits layered on top of your stutter. Ideally, we'd want to avoid those, especially when they become compulsi...

> I think I’ve been speaking the wrong way my whole life and my throat m definitely gets tense f I have to say more than literally one sentence - and I think this makes my stutter worse. Are you ...

How to NOT speak from your...throat?

How to NOT speak from your...throat? Read something unrelated to stuttering but may make (my) stuttering worse. So there’s the “right” way to speak, which is from your diaphragm, and a wrong way whi...

Absolutely this. And squeezing the skin in between my thumb and other fingers (below the camera!) as hard as possible!!...

the stuttering in my piano playing happens rarely, but when it does; its a bit frustrating. and going to a professional, what is it like in there? sort-of like therapy or something, or.. also thanks f...

Stutter is known to vary in degrees that seem radical. One day you're fine, the next you're just gutted. Patterns might be detected, that might indicate which factors are involved, but it's not terrib...

No no I'm saying tension in the body makes stuttering worse. So when you lift, you release it. Makes total sense...

100%! exercise releases tension in the body that can make stuttering worse....

me having a block and looking like i’m spazzing out...

before presentations I would meditate for 45 minutes and stretch a lot and it really helped I might make separate post about it....

When I’m having speech blocks I sometimes feel like I’m supposed to start talking on beat in a song/on a rhythm?

When I’m having speech blocks I sometimes feel like I’m supposed to start talking on beat in a song/on a rhythm? I often notice that whenever I have speech blocks there is this subconscious rhythm goi...

Massage or muscle relaxation

Massage or muscle relaxation Hello there I'm doing Schwartz therapy which is honestly already has the biggest impact out of all the other methods I tried (it really just combines them in my opinion) ...

Does anyone take steroids regularly? They have a side effect of stuttering which sucks for us!!

Does anyone take steroids regularly? They have a side effect of stuttering which sucks for us!! I have severe asthma and it's flaring up right now so I'm on prednisone. My stutter is much worse, I'm b...

I'm having the same problem, a friend of mine who is studying logopedie also told me i might have handled the "rest" by mumbling a lot more, which tbf checks out (went to 3 therapists, none ever told ...

Do you stutter or stammer when wearing a face mask?

Do you stutter or stammer when wearing a face mask? ...

First video is titled, “stuttering blocks explained” and second video is titled “valsalva maneuver with phonation” incase you didn’t wanna click on the links. Goodluck....

This is the video you need for understanding the valsalva mechanism. https://youtu.be/Clmre6U8Rmg and this is the video for the techniques. https://youtu.be/QIFPEf71ZJ0...