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Yeah I also don't have good experiences with speech therapy. Been to several and they either don't help or they make it worse. I know I'm not supposed to expect them to magically cure me but I honestl...

Oh boy. I personally have a lot. My childhood speech therapist at my school was pretty terrible. I was told “try talking like a robot” “When you stutter clinch your fist in your pocket REALLY HARD” ...

Can you give success rates of using an SLP? If not no worries, there is no cure for stuttering afterall and so the success rate in technical terms would be low. Many people find it doesn't work and fi...

Exactly man i was in therapy for 7 months and my stuttering became a disaster the reason was that my speech therapist did not know anything about stuttering, she taught me some unimportant things, now...

I’ve always known I had a stutter and always acknowledged it, but therapy just makes it worse...

I went to a speech therapist in grade school. I was forced to. I didn’t nothing to help and in fact made it worse...

Yea I tried Bill Parry's Valsalva Control technique religiously for years. While for the more severe stutterers, it does help you to get your words out and reach a certain level of fluency, it's still...

Sounds like your therapy did nothing to address the fear associated with stuttering. All the tools are useless unless fear is addressed......

I’ve done speech therapy but it’s been useless for me. Easy onset, prolonging the word, light contact, etc has been useless for me during interviews and phone calls. Thank you for sharing! I won’t be ...

If you have never been to speech therapy before, try it. It didn't work for me, but it does work for some people...

I had no success with traditional speech therapy as a kid and in my teens. I've found online coaching (which has a bad reputation here, so I won't mention the company name or the author) and had treme...

I've had almost the same experience as yours. I went to therapy when i was around 8-9 and it realllly helped me, but it got back and as i got older it kept getting worse. We were not in a good financi...

is adult speech therapy worth it?

is adult speech therapy worth it? i'm 21 and i've been stuttering for most of my life. i went to speech therapy when i was in elementary school, but i stopped going once i hit middle school. my stutte...

It's nice to see you're trying though. I had a few laughable sessions with SLPs and don't get me wrong ofcourse they are trying to help but not only is it way too much money to be able to afford, it i...

She was really nice. Shared a lot of my problems but none of her strategies worked. Just regretting spending so much considering i had no savings. Wish something came out of it. 💔...

Got therapy as soon as i got a job. Months later with thousands of dollar spent, I'm leaving with much worse stutter than i initially joined with. FML.

Got therapy as soon as i got a job. Months later with thousands of dollar spent, I'm leaving with much worse stutter than i initially joined with. FML. Title....

It was to get rid of all my tricks and then learning how to let myself stutter naturally without fighting or managing it. No fight = no struggle. Easier said than done of course...

Good for you! Was it more speech (tricks/breathing) therapy or more on dealing with your stutter and coming to terms with it?...

Hi! I am a speech therapist with a pretty good understanding of stuttering, and I agree with some of the other comments here. It TOTALLY depends on your therapist and their training. Unfortunately, a ...

My speech therapy doesn't make sense

My speech therapy doesn't make sense I started few weeks ago. Basically the main idea of this speech therapy is to see my stuttering as an "iceberg" with obvious problems on top and "hidden" problems ...