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I always get stuck on my Ds. I humm before I say my Ds and it works 90% of the time. Sadly I named my daughters Dusty and Delilah so I'm constantly humming at them...

Yea I've seen and read your post before. I didn't see any block modification techniques used in the approach you mentioned, just behavioural stuff. Voluntary stuttering can really help reduce anxiety ...

You said you sent me an email but I never received it. My Email was correct also. Double checked it....

Reverse what you said. I used that concept to dramatically reduce my blocking stutters. In fact, if you can sometimes say those sounds, your articulators are working fine. The problem comes when a...

You said definitely overblown then said that most of us try to hide our stutter. By that logic, that would mean that stuttering would be underblown....

T- t- t- t- t- t- t- reatment. Number of times I repeated letter t at the first word I had to say during an oral exam. In 8th grade. 14 years ago.

T- t- t- t- t- t- t- reatment. Number of times I repeated letter t at the first word I had to say during an oral exam. In 8th grade. 14 years ago. ...

Nicely written!  I also find Myself using a kind of bridge And I always thought it was to keep the back end of my throat open but it's definitely helped and from there it's same old carefree happy to ...

Three things that really helped me, and speech class was not one of them. "RUBBER BABY BUGGY BUMPER" I discovered this from an old show called That's Incredible. They did a segment about the guy who...

The only way to get through blocks is to make sound and take a chance of stuttering. It feels involuntary but blocks are something you **do** and are within your control. A good SLP who doesn't do flu...

I stuttered through the whole phone interview- do I email them?

I stuttered through the whole phone interview- do I email them? As the title says, I had a phone interview earlier for a dream job that I'm so qualified for. Issue is, I stutter much more over the ...

I totally get you. I change what I'm going to say so much to avoid stuttering, but in turn I use weird phrasing or vocabulary that doesn't represent what I actually wanted to say, so I'm there like "t...

I'll help you out of the dream: no cure will be arriving tomorrow (but I understand you probably know that). Also, I think habits and your level of fluency are highly interconnected. Bad habits, espe...

It's a vicious cycle for all of us, where stuttering leads to isolation and isolation worsens stuttering which leads to isolation and isolation worsens stuttering. The fact you commented shows you're...

It's a vicious circle for me, stuttering is the absolute reason why I am super lazy, throughout the years I have always avoided going out or doing activities like playing which normal kids do, because...

Very aptly put. I am similar. I am tempted to start disclosing it to people, particularly at work in the hope that it desensitises things. But then fearful old habits kick in and the avoid, change ta...

The problem is, the bad habits and the bad tendencies are there because of the stutter. Those bad habits and bad tendencies are our coping mechanisms....

The strategies can be found here: [https://www.worldstopstuttering.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/WSSACrutchChartREV230308.pdf](https://www.worldstopstuttering.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/WSSACrutc...

How did you use strategies when we can't say the first word in a talk I have a mild stutter but often fear some words ...

Covert stutter - misunderstood

Covert stutter - misunderstood Anyone else have a covert or interiorised stutter? 30 years I’ve managed to get by with avoidance and some deep rooted tricks . But lately as I’m getting professionally...

and even worse, if somebody interrupts me and I'm stressed, I just try to end my prepared sentense and hope he knows and will understand, and start talking louder, You can imagine sometimes, in extr...