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I can second the breathing thing, I just saw a speech therapist for the first time and I also have blocks. She recommended I focus on belly breathing like in yoga, and use my diaphragm. She says to sh...

Great post. Can you also add how to deal with regression? I’ve also been able to overcome my stutter to a large degree using similar method, working on reducing my fight flight response. Your metho...

I worked with a speech language pathologist group. I'm based out of Pittsburgh where J Scott Yaruss is. He has a great book available. I would contact a SLP in your area and ask how they treat. They w...

As a stuttering person you’ll be one of the best SLPs out there because your one of the few people who actually understand what it’s like to live with a stutter everyday...

Im an SLP who stutters too. There isn’t a better room in the world to learn to be OK stuttering infront of than a room full of SLPs. I won’t assume your environment, but it’s like my SLP friends had a...

Hey I’m an slp. The professor who taught my fluency class in grad school had a significant stutter but he is also an incredibly successful slp in the realm of fluency intervention. As a person who d...

I have 2. My oldest started stuttering right on cue like I did at 3. Gave it 6 months and started early intervention therapy with her. I feel that was a miracle at helping her, and she no longer stutt...

If your therapy isn’t transferable outside of the sessions , it’s not quality therapy and has not addressed the actual issues. The problem isn’t US. The problem is that if you have blocks based on fea...

Exactly, and I highly appreciate u pointing that out. Of course this may not work for everybody as we are all uniquely different, but this way has helped me calm my stutter in a sense. The article say...

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Introducing Arkenza Storyteller Hi users of overcome\_stuttering: I’m Live\_Airline\_3555 and I’m part of a small team developing an AI app to help people who stutter to speak more fluently in...

Have you ever committed to some good therapy? This can be key to gaining confidence using techniques to be fluent. I was there when I was young and now I’m older, I speak really slow and thoughtful a...

There are people who got cured by themselves naturally. But I also met many people who cured because of therapies. You can also find many studies and research that states stuttering can actually be cu...

It takes work. My dh went through intense speech therapy and he came out fluent but it’s an ongoing process. He gave up on it because it was easier just to stutter....

My son is 7 and this story sounds very similar to mine. I recommend finding an SLP who knows how to handle stuttering. My son has been receiving speech therapy for about 6 months and has made amazing ...

We went to therapist after therapist for YEARs! Threw tons of money at this. We thankfully met our guy, Steven, and did the prolonged speech (plus at home DAF app) and my son became perfect. I know “p...

My son stuttered from age 3-13, when we found a SLP who did prolonged speech therapy. It worked!!! His 16 and he rarely (rarely!) has a dysfluency. And when he does he know how to slllooooooowwwww doo...

I just grimace at stuff like this. My biases: 1. After being a severe stutterer, I achieved fluency. Stuttering is treatable. People with severe stutters can, and do, achieve greater fluency. 2....

Its nice to hear that the he,s progressing. Could you share the technique here so that it might help others? 🙂...

Not read the book you mentioned, but I have read Stuttering and Anxiety Self-cures by Lee G Lovett. It's about neuroplasticity, too. He also has an active support group you can get involved in after r...

My son started stuttering when he was 3 and by the time he was 5 it had gotten really bad with major blocks. He started speech path around 4 and to be honest it didn’t seem to be working at all(not ...