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That "dealing with stuttering" and "being as fluent as possible" are not the same thing. A lot of students (and practicing SLPs, for that matter) equate these two experiences. Hearing first-hand abou...

I'm an SLP and for my undergraduate degree in Communication Disorders I did have to take I think 4 psych classes, but I still definitely think you should talk about anxiety/depression. It will help he...

I think many SLPs minor in Psychology but I agree some psych classes should be for the major...

I briefly looked through a curriculum for SLP and I didn’t see any psych classes. I think the anxiety and depression associated with stuttering can be debilitating, practitioners would benefit from tr...

The above has been my experience. I went to grad school for counseling psychology of all things. Internships were initially challenging, I also had to videotape my practice counseling sessions for sup...

Have you spoken to the senior doctors? Have you got a mentor at the hospital? There are two separate things to look at here. The first is your ability to do medical stuff. If your a 6th year student y...

I like the app, weekly video calls and voluntary stuttering section I don't like the fluency shaping, not a good solution from my experience...

Yes, I know the McGuire Program. I am neutral on it. I know people who have benefited greatly from it and that's what's important. Personally, I think it is very important and I prefer speech techniqu...

There are completely different approaches to treating children and adults who stutter and I would really recommend giving it another try. I often find that my adult patients are a lot more motivated t...

I went to speech therapy when I was a child like for 2 or 3 years but then stopped. I'm 20 years old now and I'm still stuttering since I learned how to talk, I'm trying to live with it. Any advice fo...

I have an office job now but I was a social worker for 25 years, working mostly with people with severe mental illness. I started college as a computer science major/minor in music theory, perfect for...

Tried speech therapy when i was younger. It did help but it came back. Went to it again a couple years ago. Didn't help at all and we're not in a financial state to keep throwing money at it after alm...

When I went to speech therapy years ago when my stutter was at its worst, I never stuttered when I was there. Seriously not at all. I also stuttered worse at home around my parents and not as much wh...

I'm a speech language therapist. I took a stuttering class in school (taught by a professor who stutters) and he said it's just the effect of having a novel circumstance and it goes away eventually. H...

Spent about a year going to a speech clinic and I was stutter free when I left. Some months later it had all came back. I learned there is no way to control or stop it, sometimes I speak better than o...

Yes, well said. I have found going to therapists about general anxiety issues eventually leads to discussions around stuttering and other pregnant topics and has been incredibly cathartic to vocalize...

Of course its going to be hard, even taking care of young brothers is a huge task, while stuttering just makes it a plus for suffering. You should simply try accept the fact you need to give the best ...

Six years of speech therapy while growing up. I most certainly do stutter. It just gets completely out of hand on certain days, read the post....

What helped you the most in speech therapy?

What helped you the most in speech therapy? I’m a person who stutters and a speech-language pathology graduate student. Curious to hear about what helped you guys the most in speech therapy? Did y...

> e I don't shrink back or recoil from it when I do. But a lot of the secondary anxiety and nervousness that augmented my stutter went away because of speech therapy, and I am a lot more confident ...