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they taught you that? I hope this was a while ago because that is teaching avoidance tricks and those usually are short lived and get ingrained as a avoidance habit....

The first technique reminds me of an easy onset speech technique that speech therapists advise stutterers to use (mine did) The first one is good, the second one is bad. I used to do something simila...

I advice against using tricks like this. They tend to only work temporary because they distract your brain from stuttering. Once the novelty wears off you just added a new secondary stuttering behavio...

It totally depends on the person. I went to speech therapy twice with a few years apart, and it didn't help me much. ...

I did speech from when I first got into school until I was 15. You know the whole talk slow or sing the words out. I hated it...

I feel like therapy felt to me like someone had this idea to fix me. I think I would have coped better if the approach was more of a ‘let’s find a way to manage my stutter together’ and not so textboo...

There's a great series on stuttertalk called what I wish my therapist knew, or something like that. I'd also tell them it's not their job to make the kid stop stuttering. They won't be able to, but t...

the same tired techniques for years on end that never helped and the therapists wouldnt listen to me when I told them that I had already tried them and they didnt help. Stuff like stretching out the f...

I think it gives false hope, and it's also implying that we have something wrong with us that we are trying to get rid of. I think that's a pretty negative attitude, and it's not really helping any of...

Some said speech therapists only worsened their condition. The other day some people suggested that I should expose myself to public more and it's the best self therapy ever. I did that for 2 days and...

Yeah the use of Solpadol along the years has helped relax my social anxiety. I’m able to get a therapist on the nhs. But they just aren’t helpful. But I’ve thought about seeing a private therapist so ...

I had speech therapy a few years ago. It was useless all she wanted to talk about were my feelings. And there are no other adult speech therapists in my town...

Yep! When I was around 12-14 years old my parents took me to a hypnotherapist. I’d tried speech therapy but I didn’t really make a difference so maybe this was their last option. The sessions were ...

I have had hypnotherapy, I think I was too young but it didn't help really! And it's very expensive so that's putting me off trying again ...

Thanks, but actually in the week after I posted this comment, my stutter came back again. Funny enough, this was my second time doing the course and I'm starting to think they just psych people up to ...

I had some sessions but I found it was making me more stressed, I've made more improvements since I got stopped going to that and started studying again!...

I tried some when I was a kid, which I think amounted to breathing exercises. Probably some older theories behind it. Tried some later around the onset of my twenties (I think), but there wasn't much...

What do you wish more professionals understood?

What do you wish more professionals understood? I teach college-level courses to students who will become Communicative Disorders Assistants (CDAs). CDAs assist Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiol...

This statement at the end of this almost useless article is ridiculous. "Should not be used"? Why not? Oh, "on the basis of a systematic literature review." Ahh, ok. What? Every one of those ...

>stutter therapies based on medication, hypnosis, or unspecific methods, or those based solely or mainly on breathing regulation or rhythmic speech cueing, should not be used. I guess there's stil...