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Stuttering is one of the areas that many SLPs feel the least confident in. Please try different SLPs until you find a good fit with someone who is an expert! The field is so broad, they aren’t all equ...

The benefit of speech therapy isn't really better speech, but more so how you feel about your own speech. At least that was the case for me. ...

Why? It exists literally to help you with what's bothering you. Perhaps your SLP just wasn't good or engaging. Either way, don't give up it gets better. I promise. But it does take alot of work on you...

Sounds like speech therapy would do alot out good for you. It has helped my change my mind set towards my speech to a more positive time....

No. I’ve had therapy. Some good. A lot bad. I participate in a lot of self help. Who i am and how i see my stuttering is reflected in the journey. ...

> A lot of practicioners still insist on the psychogenic theory of stuttering (e.g., "I was fine until my parents got divorced, but then it started due to all the fighting"), To be fair, the situa...

Dyslexia doesn't cause speech difficulties, though. Whoever told you that was misinformed and has misinformed you. Stuttering is a motor-speech disorder. It's more similar to swinging a (very fine,...

thank you! I'm definitely learning not to blame myself for my stutter, and thinking about my past and possible causes or reasons why I stutter also helps. It might be difficult to face yourself like ...

This is a huge thing that I realized as well. Therapy as a route to fluency is really hard and not successful most of the times (for full fluency). But therapy towards acceptance and finding comfort i...

I feel like therapy felt to me like someone had this idea to fix me. I think I would have coped better if the approach was more of a ‘let’s find a way to manage my stutter together’ and not so textboo...

Advice for slp student

Advice for slp student Hello r/stutter, I hope you guys don't mind me coming here for some advice. I am a graduate student speech language pathologist I have my first fluency client this semester in a...

In my own city group of stammer, few of them have tried speech therapy but they told me the technique they are teaching (speech therapist) is hard to follow in real world. ...

stuttering articles

stuttering articles Hi, I am writing a paper on stuttering and the different therapies that exist that may cure stuttering for school. I can’t really find a lot of scientific articles about that subje...

One of my childhood *friends* and classmate was a stutterer aswell (though less severe than mine). We never talked about it, as we were kids at the time. As we got older, he ended up bullying me (not ...

I tried speech therapy, I didn't stutter when talking to the therapist, stuttered talking to her receptionist after...

Every semester I give a speech to the Speech/hearing students who are trying to become therapists. It's mostly me telling them what having a speech impediment is really like. Anybody have anything they'd like me to add?

Every semester I give a speech to the Speech/hearing students who are trying to become therapists. It's mostly me telling them what having a speech impediment is really like. Anybody have anything the...

Thank you for your input. I'm glad it's a well-known assignment and has been openly discussed within our communities (I hadn't done any research on it prior to posting here). I had an understanding c...

I went through one forced experience of three thus far with a waitress and she was very understanding. Other students who have completed a portion of the assignment have not had such understanding ex...

It’s a common assignment and it gives you a tiny taste. I’m the mom of a PWS and I’ve done it with the full blessing and utter delight of my son. He was about 6 and he loved every second of it. He c...

As a stuttering person, I don't find anything offensive in it. In fact, I'm for it. Even if you do it once I think you'd get some insight....