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I'm currently enrolled in a speech therapy called "the essential pause". I'm 34 and my stutter doesn't seem to go away soon... I'm only 4 weeks in the treatment though. What I really hate about it is...

During speech therapy in school I told my therapist my stuttering was exceptionally worse over the phone. Guess what he did? “Ok /raguirre10 we’re going to order pizza for the staff today with all di...

To treat something is to, “behave toward or deal with in a certain way”. In speech therapy we develop treatment plans or therapy plans for clients depending on the disorder. When working with a pe...

I did some when I was a kid, which didn't help much, I think. Something about breathing and maintaining eye contact. Not sure it mattered much (but with kids, it can be hard to do more complex stuff, ...

Yes, unpredictability is what we have to get familiar with. I know that sounds contradictory, but it's not. It's about managing expectations. You might find that you'd get more out of consistent and ...

I took part in an intensive 2 week speech therapy course, along with some more occasional speech therapy before that, but none of it seems to have helped. If anything it's become worse. It does still...

Maybe, I would like to see more cognitive stuff on a more regular basis across the lifespan. Working solely on speech production isn't "bad" therapy. There's disagreement in the field as to what thera...

Perhaps it's just par for the course with young stutterers. I imagine there's some work on the cognitive side that might be too complex at that age....

>relaxing his tummy, easy onset, eye-contact. Pause time I feel like this might sound a bit old-fashioned. Maybe it's just that it was a long time since I was a kid and went to speech therapy, so ...

I'd ask your kid if they enjoy it or see value in this and if they don't, I'd get a new therapist. I did all this fluency shaping stuff growing up and it was unhelpful, bordering on detrimental. What...

That is great, but why these things? What has the therapist told you the point of them are. Again, what does your child think the point of all this is? You can glean a ton of information if you ge...

What does the speech therapist say the point of speech therapy is? What does your kid think the point of speech therapy is? ...

Therapy has several purposes. ​ One of the things therapists do is reduce a complex skill into more manageable units. Using "tools he can use if he gets stuck" is a really complex goal. ...

If you’re under 18, you can apply to the Michael Palin Centre’s 2-week intensive course. I did it a few years back (I was referred by my GP) and it definitely helped me. You go in every day for 2 we...

If I’m being totally honest with myself, I don’t really use any. Before finding this subreddit, throughout my whole life I didn’t realise that stuttering was as popular as it is. I haven’t really give...

I can't fully remember but I believe I did do that for a while - there was dial that altered the delay but I don't think it could alter the pitch. As far as I recall it was more the effect of speaking...

I tried one out for a couple of weeks when I went to speech therapy. Unfortunately it didn't really do anything for me. My speech therapy was more focused on breathing exercises and the mental attitu...

It doesn’t work for everyone. I considered it a long time ago but my pathologist thought I’d respond to speech therapy better. And he was right. It’s kind of a gimmick really. Sort of the answer was ...

My 13 year old has a significant stutter and leads a perfectly normal life. He is accepted at school, no one teases him (and everyone has learned to let him sound out his own words) and overall he is ...

It sounds like he's got a lot of things on his side (e.g. confidence, friendship group) - and great that he sees therapy in a positive light enough that he would want to be an SLP! It must be very har...