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All you can do is your best. Simplistic I know, but it’s the truth. I hear you when you talk about blocking on that first dreaded word. I have found deep breathing exercises can be helpful before a or...

Last month, my dad had bad heartburn after a large birthday celebration. We gave him tums and water. Turns out, he was *actually* having a heart attack and if we went to hospital right away, there w...

I'm glad that worked for you but it's not exactly a standard protocol in speech therapy. It sounds like a great way to practice good technique but at that point I didn't have any good technique to ...

I am not sure if rapping helps, but i love music, including rap, and i often, especially when i was younger, used to rap alongside my favorite rap songs, including ones in my native language aswell. S...

Then I suggest you can learn how to self-analyze the components of your stuttering, like personally speaking my stuttering is nearly totally psychological so cognitive therapy can do wonders for me co...

Okay, so she sectioned out my therapy session (I had them for about a year once a week) into 4 or 5 parts. At first, she had me simply reading out loud. Not a book but 1 or 2 printer pages worth of ma...

"I'll always be a stutterer. But that doesn't mean I'll always stutter." I love this! My story is similar to yours. I was fortunately able to attend speech therapy at a young age and I found I had to...

Hmm that’s weird. Don’t forgot to take a deep breath when your throat feels closed and talk on the exhale...

Sharing my success.

Sharing my success. I advocate for speech therapy. That's one reason I frequent this sub. If I can help just *one* person seek out effective speech therapy and achieve greater fluency, I'll have put s...

While I am a huge advocate of the fact that not caring what other people think is a key to managing your stutter, I also think and have experienced that speech therapy absolutely works and should not ...

It’s important to note that you don’t HAVE to do presentations in school if you have a stutter. Communicate with your teachers and/or the disability office early on. Since it’s a bit late for this ap...

It worked for Marilyn Monroe. If i speak softer I stutter less but I never remember to do it 😂 Keep doing the voice. If your family love you they will get used to it....

Let's exclude TBI... That's a whole different thing. You and I are on such different pages here. It wasn't about removing the stutter. As such, the question of triggers wasn't applicable either. Or ...

Are you implying that stuttering is psychological? I agree there is a psychological element that engages in a vicious cycle with the stutter. But that doesn't discount our stutter. The stutter is...

Hey! Speech Pathologist here! Is what you’re going to say for your presentation written out? If not I would ask your teacher if it’s okay if you type it out so you can read it off of paper instead of ...

Like I said, I'm not familiar with the terminology you are using. As such, I am inferring meaning from the terms. Maybe my inferences don't align with your meanings... I hope I'm wrong, but I'm getti...

I guess I need to preface my response with the fact that you seem much more educated on the subject than I do. I'm not familiar with some of the things you referred to by name. Likely have no experi...

I had different SLP's and they had their own ways of treating my stuttering. But the SLP's always told me in the beginning that it's never the focus for an slp to reach fluency. Regarding what I lear...

I speak up a lot more. I don't get anxious about ordering food. I volunteer for things I would never have considered before. I'm still the same stutterer. I'm just fluent. All the psychological wound...

These may be *your* truths, but they are not everyone's. I disagree with you on several points. I was able to achieve fluency through speech therapy. I am a huge advocate for finding an SLP who spe...