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What’s awful is you met that one speech therapist. You also have to consider for the majority of SLP life, non-stutterers were teaching them! Relying on kids to do intervention is a way to try and be ...

>Instead of going to Speech Therapy that i don’t think will work because they don’t know how it feels like. It is not the point of speech therapy that someone else should know how something feels ...

It is not something easily controlled. It sounds like You might need a new speech language therapist. If you aren’t seeing results. I agree overly Positive-ness can be annoying but their absolutely is...

Sure, speaking is a skill. In terms of improving it, some might get more out of it than others. That's as it is with all skills. However, stuttering is a quite particular factor in that regard. If yo...

People need to know that stuttering is something we can’t control, and it’s not our fault that we are like this.

People need to know that stuttering is something we can’t control, and it’s not our fault that we are like this. It’s like i always try to explain people that it’s not our fault that we are like this ...

I'm sorry you had to go through 38 sessions of positivity and useless techniques. Finding a therapist who truly understands stuttering and has a strategy for you on how to communicate well and thrive ...

I am also currently undergoing speech therapy, and i know exactly how you feel, the slp talks and teaches us all those techniques and they thinks according to them it’s helping but in reality it didn’...

Walking out on my Therapist

Walking out on my Therapist Today was my 38th session of Speech Therapy. I have a severe stutter, with mainly blockage and facial tension. Anyway, we started our usual routine with the question “Anyth...

Stutter variance is a well-known feature of stuttering. Confidence is something you have to work with regardless of whether you happen to stutter or not. Many stutterers report not stuttering when p...

Of course it's a good method to reduce the syntoms and I am very happy for you. I think it's not true to say that are causes, they are synthoms. The core of stutter is an high level, that's my point. ...

In my program 5 hours was all I got... it would have been even less but my professor who taught my fluency course added in a lecture on counseling when he realized how little we were getting. Since no...

That's interesting. So unless you choose to specialize in stuttering and perhaps even pursue a PhD in stuttering, you get just 5 hours worth of counseling on stuttering as an SLP in grad school? And w...

SLPs + People who stutter needed for quick online survey participation

SLPs + People who stutter needed for quick online survey participation Hello! My name is Karina, I am a graduate student studying Speech-Language Pathology in New York. I am currently working in a gr...

Let’s say a person has cancer. That person would have an oncologist to manage their cancer, but they would also have a pcp to manage their health, a psychologist to mange their mental health because ...

How many in here have had experience seeing a therapist? If so, how did it go? I’ve seen a speech language pathologist on and off up until I was about 20. I could write an essay about this, but I only have the allotted characters.

How many in here have had experience seeing a therapist? If so, how did it go? I’ve seen a speech language pathologist on and off up until I was about 20. I could write an essay about this, but I only...

Agreed. I've experimented with various tools, techniques, and therapies, and have yet to find something that works on a *consistent* basis. I found speech therapy to be -- 1. Often a one-off/ad-hoc ...

This 👏🏻 I’m an SLP grad student and I totally agree with this. SLPs are not counselors or therapist and we receive very little of this type of education in our grad programs (I had approximately 5 h...

I am undergoing speech therapy currently and they might help with improving the physical aspects due to which stuttering occurs, but it does nothing to mental blocks which occur, and it does not solve...

Yep! Stuttered as long as I can remember! I’ve gotten better over the years with therapy and stuff but def still stutter...

Your therapist guides you into a relaxed state of mind called "trance" in which it's easier to interact with your subconcious. In this state you can work on past experiences or beliefs about yourself ...