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commentr/StutterSep 22, 2025
3 points

I came here to ask this. I went to two different speech therapists. And I didn't stutter at all during the assessment. And my second therapist told me that my case can be psychological, and I should ...

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postr/StutterSep 22, 2025
3 points

Have other kinds of therapy helped?

Have other kinds of therapy helped? I mean therapy thats not speech therapy, like therapy for anxiety or self esteem, something that could indirectly help your stutter. Am planning to change from spee...

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commentr/StutterSep 22, 2025
1 points

Thank you for your response. Yes what you are saying is pretty much what our private SLP has been saying. Daughter goes to a center where she was getting OT, but also offers speech, so she has been ...

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commentr/StutterSep 22, 2025
1 points

I’ve been there… one extreme bad work moment had me stuttering so bad I locked myself in the apartment afterwards. What helped me was a therapist, she got me over this emotional life hurdle. After ano...

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commentr/StutterSep 22, 2025
3 points

While speech therapy can really help, I think confidence and routine helps more. Having 3 hours to dedicate to that sounds like you really planned your days and had a level of consistency that most pe...

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commentr/StutterSep 22, 2025
4 points

I wouldn't call it lazy because changing a deeply ingrained habit like stuttering is very hard and can be soul-crushing. That said, I've also had to go through my fair share of therapies that didn't w...

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commentr/StutterSep 22, 2025
15 points

One of my biggest regrets in life is the amount of speech therapy I've done.  From the age of 17-22, for more than 5 years, I dedicated myself to speech therapy. I did an hour a day of breathing dri...

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commentr/StutterSep 21, 2025
1 points

How old am I? I have college and HS age children. Old enough that I am only vaguely aware of who Andrew Tate is. Scumbag toxic masculinity personality on the internet. Couldn't pick him out of a line...

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commentr/StutterSep 21, 2025
1 points

When i was a freshman in high school a teacher yelled at me in front of the whole class saying that im faking my stutter and forced me to talk ( I couldn’t) it affected me sm I went to therapy and swi...

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commentr/StutterSep 21, 2025
1 points

Did you know that from what I read there , it seems like you have a psychogenic learned stutter, it's the stutter that you can create and reduce by your own mind . I had that stutter the same as you b...

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commentr/StutterSep 20, 2025
2 points

I’m an slp and I can’t really diagnose bc I have never seen your child but adhd is more linguistic non-fluencies while pure stuttering is going to be more block/repetitions/prolongations that might ha...

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commentr/StutterSep 20, 2025
1 points

Good for you! I stuttered severely from since I could (attempt to) speak until college. Speech therapy from kindergarten through high school. Legos and animals were (and still are) my best friends. Av...

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commentr/StutterSep 20, 2025
1 points

Yeah for sure when it comes to therapy I'm 100% confident that my therapist won't joke or make any bad comments about it....

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commentr/StutterSep 20, 2025
4 points

Because some stutterers are open about it when it comes to therapy specially, they feel comfortable that they shared having a stutter, and being confident 100% sure that the therapist wouldn’t joke or...

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commentr/StutterSep 19, 2025
2 points

Comes in waves. Treat therapy as a sticky plaster. If you’re not using the tools they give you every minute of the day you will relapse. It’s really normal. Stammering is a rollercoaster...

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commentr/StutterSep 18, 2025
1 points

If your fluency is impeding you from unfettered oral communication and detracting from your social life, you need to seek out speech therapy. I am a person that stutters and is also a speech therapist...

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commentr/StutterSep 18, 2025
1 points

Seriously??? ,at least you have money dude , you know as long as you have money , I prefer not to sympathize you that much , because " MONEY "solves most of problem the broke Stutterers faces , what ...

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commentr/StutterSep 18, 2025
1 points

We not calling it a ' Cure '. But it's nice to have hope that something "May just" help people who stutter. According to information Ecopipam is probably the first drug that is showing some kind of po...

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commentr/StutterSep 17, 2025
0 points

Yes. Stuttering is neurological not psychological. That's why SLPs treat it and not psychologists...

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commentr/StutterSep 17, 2025
1 points

De niño estuve en escuela en USA y en la misma escuela daban terapia de lenguaje. Hacían maravillas porque me lo controlaba bastante hasta poder participar en concursos de deletreo, etc. Regresando a ...

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