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You have to be willing to do the opppsite of what you are probably doing. It’s scary at first. Disclose, make eye contact, voluntary repetitions, begin slowly, exhale, and enunciate...
Not really… You will almost certainly need to do radio communications to include sending receiving messages (to include basic encoding and decoding with NATO phonetic alphabet) to get out of basic. Al...
Wonderful:) Besides faith and mindset, were there things you used to achieve this? I ask bc I’ve had times when I kinda randomly became fluent, it lasted for a few weeks, and when my hard blocks ret...
Yes! I started in 2020 when I was 22 and I was discharged in February of this year. The techniques and strategies really did help! I still practice them to this day....
I did speech therapy when I was 9 and the techniques I learnt there actually helped, but I didn’t keep up practice after I was done with therapy so they didn’t actually stick and now I still stutter. ...
Hello, Im in high-school and I also have that stutter you're talking about. With me is I can say those words but there's a 3 second delay and it's really frustrating especially bcs when I'm alone I ca...
I was 3 when I started, stopped when I was about 11, didn't help in my younger years but the techniques do help now that I'm older....
What solves stuttering is being able to devote yourself to hearing the world around you (excluding your speech). You need to "hear" the sounds around you more than the things you say yourself. You don...
Check out the vocalization section on the Audio Book Beyond Stuttering...
So I would really recommend the Dave McGuire course. They have an inexpensive self help book on Amazon called “Beyond Stammering: The Mcguire Program for getting good at the Sport of Speaking.” You ca...
Those ideas probably come from SLPs with litetally zero training in dysfluency. They are about as helpful as asking a professional makeup artist to see if your mole is cancerous. If those are what ...
Day 2… and I definitely think I feel more leveled and balanced emotionally and mentally at ease. And I’m definitely feeling a little bit more smooth with my words but still stammering a LITTLE on cert...
I think you’re taking the “practice makes perfect” term wrong. The point is simply just speak to people and have conversations in your daily life even if you will stutter. You are practicing to get yo...
I don’t think so. There are comedians that stutter. Yes, part of humor is getting to the point before the other people can guess what your point is. But as long as you commit to the joke, I think y...
I agree with you that we should face feared letters rather than skipping it which is likely contrary to what his speech pathologist advices. Additionally, I think skipping is better than SLP fluency s...
What daily speech exercises do you do?
What daily speech exercises do you do? Which speech exercises do you do daily that you feel helped your stutter? I am trying to think of more exercises to do and would love some input!...
Practice doesn’t make perfect for me. I had a presentation that I practiced using speech techniques that I was told to by my speech pathologist. However, when I presented I got blocks again and skipped a whole two paragraphs in my presentation. Advice to not go into fight or flight mode?
Practice doesn’t make perfect for me. I had a presentation that I practiced using speech techniques that I was told to by my speech pathologist. However, when I presented I got blocks again and skippe...
In such situations just skip the first letter of the word, and trust me it works like magic - if you stutter saying Simon s-s-s-s-imon, or even block at S and unable to finish the word, just utter imo...
This happens to me which leads to me straining to breakout of the breathing block / lock feeling. Do you mind going over what you do for breathing? Since I think it would be really helpful....
Yeah, this is what happens to me when I try to speak. It's honestly exhausting. It's one of the things we're trying to work on in speech therapy - breathing properly. It's like when I'm in a block eve...