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Anyone else have trouble answering registers

Anyone else have trouble answering registers I'm in late secondary school and a couple of years ago I started stuttering when my name was called on the register. It didn't help that my name was at the...

I speak slowly but my brain still moves frantically fast involuntarily, I assume in a similar fashion to the way op describes their involuntary fast speech. I use my fast stream of consciousness to ra...

Many techniques taught inside the therapy room are simply *wrong*. It’s the equivalent of a doctor with improper training prescribing an antibiotic to a patient with some type of longterm food po...

Agree 100%! But the problem is that there is a massive gap between what we can achieve inside the therapy room and in real world scenarios. I can train how much I want in a comfortable environment (t...

People tell me that one of their friends or relative has it too but he's / she's married has great job etc. Also some tell me that some famous people has it too. But if I ask them a question like why...

This is also the advice of the Stuttering Foundation of America, and the National Stuttering Association. Telling children to slow down not only doesn’t help, it sends the message that she’s doing som...

Ways to meet friends

Ways to meet friends So I (m20) have been stuttering since I was 7 And I Would say mine is moderate most of the time Sometimes it can be a little more. But recently I decided that I wanted to start g...

Singing is different from verbalizing. When we sing we follow a rhythm even if minutely and this makes all the difference for us as we can speak while singing without stuttering. Now verbalizing is co...

Rough day

Rough day Today, I had a bad experience with a student’s parent (I provide OT services). I had to call the mom to ask a question and of course, my stutter is worse over the phone. First, I pronounced...

What stutter strategy should I use

What stutter strategy should I use Sometimes I try to say a sentence or talk with my friends I have a repetition at the start of a sentence like saying Www what and I just use cancelation or easy ons...

Social anxiety and stutter, an insane endless loop for me.

Social anxiety and stutter, an insane endless loop for me. My stutter is probably mild on average... I can talk 100% perfectly when I'm alone, but it gets exponentially worse if I am just a TINY bit a...

Sounds interesting. I tried talking to Chatgpt, which is pretty easy to me since it's it doesn't feel like a human being and I don't stutter when talking to robots. An AI which is designed to mimic a...

What do you do to prevent yourself from having a stuttering relapse when you’re speaking mostly fluently?

What do you do to prevent yourself from having a stuttering relapse when you’re speaking mostly fluently? ...

be careful with this, I took it to the extreme when I was younger and essentially ended up replacing 's' with 't' because it was a consonant I could say without fail, to the point where no one could u...

Learning why you speed up will be most effective and will improve your speech over time. If you are like most people with fear-based blocks, you speed up bc speaking is so uncomfortable and you want ...

Hmmm one trick. Put a hard candy towards the back of your mouth…kinda tucked in your cheek pocket. Then gently suck on it. That create an almost natural pause. Works sometimes. But I mostly end up...

They’re down voting because your advice is flawed, slowing down the pace of speech does help to increase fluency, contrary to what you stated....

I think understanding Indian people is quite easy, I only struggle occasionally because they naturally speak fast, but as a stutterer that maybe will apply less to you. For context I’m British and I...

If you slow down for the sake of not stuttering, it will make things worse. If you want slow down, accept that it is ok to stutter few times and focus on the conversation....

One of the best techniques I use is to kinda merge the sylables and words together and smoothly flow from one to the other. At the start of a sentence, start with a neutral sound and flow into the fir...