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commentr/StutterSep 30, 2020
2 points

First of all, don't panic. You're a smart person, and you're aware of your issue, and believe it or not, that's a pretty good start for a recovery. Recovery is a lot of hard work and discipline. Do re...

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commentr/StutterSep 29, 2020
1 points

Yeah, I would say maybe 1 of 10 Theraphies will really help you, you just have to try and try. You have your whole life for that :)...

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commentr/StutterSep 28, 2020
1 points

Hey! I’m a Producer at Hashtag Our Stories and I’d love to feature a story on ‘creative-minded stutterers’ across our social media. We reach upto 7 million people and it’s all about people trying to c...

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commentr/StutterSep 27, 2020
1 points

I can’t prove or disprove that my 7 years of therapy helped but it’s disappointing that I can’t say I had real growth and that my strategies came after I had to stop therapy...

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commentr/StutterSep 27, 2020
1 points

Just an idea, do you have any universities near you? If they have a speech-language pathology program, sometimes they have opportunities for people in the area to work with the students and it’s free....

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commentr/StutterSep 25, 2020
2 points

Did you get your name across in the end? Did the conversation go on? Also, "have been through therapy" sounds a bit vague. What did you try and for how long?...

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commentr/StutterSep 22, 2020
2 points

Agreed, I started seeing a speech therapist in first grade. I still stutter but nowhere near like I used to....

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commentr/StutterSep 20, 2020
1 points

Essiantially just putting me in fake situations to talk and adapt to. Reading words and studying words that I block on, relearning vowels and consonants. A bunch of condescending bull...

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commentr/StutterSep 18, 2020
6 points

Speech therapy has never helped me and has made my stutter worse because I get annoyed going to therapy. I quit going to it after I turned 13 because when I started the therapy 2 years before I actual...

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commentr/StutterSep 13, 2020
1 points

Honestly, I did speech therapy when I was 13, 18 and 20. It didn’t have any long term impact or progress for me personally...

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commentr/StutterSep 12, 2020
1 points

Could help? Probably, but not with stutter. I mean, it seems like you're asking about something unrelated. :)...

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commentr/StutterSep 12, 2020
1 points

Of course you can't, it just relaxes your muscles which in my case could help like when I do vocal warm-ups....

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commentr/StutterSep 12, 2020
1 points

But stuttering isn't "a physical activity". Stuttering is abnormal behavior associated with speaking. You don't massage a stutter away....

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commentr/StutterSep 12, 2020
1 points

What's "Schwartz therapy"? Also, are you asking if massage helps with stutter? No such connection has been estabilshed, as far as I'm aware. I mean, if you're tense, it'd be a good idea to figure out...

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commentr/StutterSep 11, 2020
1 points

I developed my stutter around the age of 5. In elementary school and middle school, I had sessions with the school’s speech pathologist. The speech therapy was decent, but not great. I saw another spe...

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commentr/StutterSep 11, 2020
4 points

I was also told that i would grow out of it. My parents were always very understanding, they tried to help me as much as they possibly could. I was in speech therapy that I got through school for a co...

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commentr/StutterSep 11, 2020
2 points

The same happens to me, like a panic attack. I have gone for speech therapy multiple times but nothing really worked. Honestly I don't know how to minimise it. Maybe it's just how life is....

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commentr/StutterSep 10, 2020
4 points

This is really great advice, and mirrors my experience almost exactly. I was put in speech therapy in first grade because of my stutter, and stayed for eight years. I couldn’t get through a word when ...

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commentr/StutterSep 10, 2020
2 points

Speech therapy should give you tools to get through stutters and help you develop a healthy attitude towards it. If you tried speech therapy and you didn’t feel like any of their advice was useful, I ...

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postr/StutterSep 6, 2020
44 points

Being “ghosted” by speech pathologist(s)

Being “ghosted” by speech pathologist(s) I finally found a speech pathologist within my city that my insurance would cover the cost of, and I finally started to make some progress. I ended up getting ...

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