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commentr/StutterMar 12, 2018
5 points

There is no cure. Speech therapy can help you learn tactics to deal with stuttering as it comes. Yoga/other can help with your breath. Mental health services can help you weather the frustration and i...

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commentr/StutterMar 7, 2018
2 points

Stuttering is one of the areas that many SLPs feel the least confident in. Please try different SLPs until you find a good fit with someone who is an expert! The field is so broad, they aren’t all equ...

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commentr/StutterMar 6, 2018
2 points

Why? It exists literally to help you with what's bothering you. Perhaps your SLP just wasn't good or engaging. Either way, don't give up it gets better. I promise. But it does take alot of work on you...

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commentr/StutterMar 4, 2018
6 points

First: Don't pay attention to Dr. Phil. Listen to actual professionals instead. Second: If you feel like doing speech therapy again, definitely go do that! Therapy can be fickle in that it's not nece...

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commentr/StutterMar 3, 2018
1 points

At the end of the day all you have is your family. Telling someone to stop talking to their parents is counterproductive. Sounds to me like OP and his parents are uninformed on the topic of stuttering...

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commentr/StutterMar 2, 2018
1 points

Welcome! It's hard to know exactly how to help, because I don't know you. But, given your post, you may benefit from being evaluated by a speech pathologist for stuttering. Talking with a professional...

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commentr/StutterMar 1, 2018
2 points

Well personally, speaking slower hardly helps for me, and speech therapy did next to nothing. I know how you feel. I took sign language in high school as my second language. It was so relaxing to no...

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commentr/StutterMar 1, 2018
2 points

That sounds like an odd activity. Where did your mom get it from, exactly? It's not a technique from speech therapy, I take it....

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commentr/StutterFeb 25, 2018
3 points

Why not just show up in person? I was the same as you over the phone. My speech therapist told me the best remedy for that was to just keep doing it and get over it. You wont be able to avoid the pho...

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commentr/StutterFeb 23, 2018
0 points

For me personally it's part of normalizing the situation and unlearn the fear that is connected to stuttering. Loosing that anxiety was the dominant part of my successful therapeutic process....

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commentr/StutterFeb 21, 2018
2 points

I'm 21, hit my breaking point when I was 19 in college. Broke down outside the dorm. I went back to speech therapy which has helped tremendously. It's hard to embrace the suck, but reading about th...

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commentr/StutterFeb 18, 2018
2 points

Well, the fact that you’re here is a good thing. This subreddit can do that. Also, the Facebook stuttering groups are quite good. If you haven’t checked out “stuttering community” i recommend it. Also...

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commentr/StutterFeb 18, 2018
1 points

Yeah I share it with someone close to me. And for the speech therapy, no because all of them are inexperienced. I know some people who have been to speech therapy, the therapists told them to recite h...

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commentr/StutterFeb 18, 2018
2 points

Well you can't find such thing in my country. I live in kurdistan and there's not even a decent speech therapy here it's so messed up....

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commentr/StutterFeb 17, 2018
1 points

Thanks man I’ve been doing somewhat of a spoken journal. It seems to be helping, I’ll definitely consider speech therapy. Thank you this is very helpful!...

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commentr/StutterFeb 17, 2018
2 points

What you’re feeling is real. A good speech therapist could help. And by good i mean one that understands what you’re going through rather than just the speech stuff. ...

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commentr/StutterFeb 14, 2018
1 points

Does your university know you stutter? Do you know any speech therapists?...

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commentr/StutterFeb 13, 2018
1 points

I know very well what you’re going through since I also encountered such hard situations! if it is a very important question, go ahead and ask it. in my case, I’d go to the teacher’s office hour and a...

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commentr/StutterFeb 13, 2018
2 points

Hey, the cure IS speech therapy. It worked for me, but unfortunately it all resurfaced just once in an interview for the job I really really wanted. But I realized a biiiiig thing. The interviewees we...

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commentr/StutterFeb 11, 2018
1 points

It did help, and currently I am looking to get into my parent's insurance so I can afford to go to speech therapy again....

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