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“Most people” is a strong way to put it. If it didn’t work for most people, why would it be an entire industry and field of study? As a person who’s taken 3 different kinds of speech therapy at diff...

I can't speak for anybody else. But I have been on both sides of the fence. I had speech therapy through the public schools in my youth. Not at all helpful. I saw an SLP in my teens for a couple y...

Hey, my speech disorder also developed very early, I also went to speech therapy as a kid, but it didn't help much. Then, when I was about 13, I started reading a book aloud for 30 minutes every day a...

take speech therapy courses, search up any speech pathologist or speech therapist at your local university, that's what I'm doing and its been night and day. Yes I still stutter but its much better an...

Find a different speech therapist. Any therapist that sees you for that long and isn't achieving results should say "What I'm doing isn't helping, let's find someone who is a better fit for you." The...

Tips to improve stuttering from the research: "Contemporary clinical conversations about stuttering: What does brain imaging research mean to clinicians?" (2024)

Tips to improve stuttering from the research: "Contemporary clinical conversations about stuttering: What does brain imaging research mean to clinicians?" (2024) The curious PWS (person who stutters) ...

Hi Steelspy. Agree with everything here. I'm not a student, but I supervise students in externships focused on stuttering, and have seen the changes in the past 20+ years. Unfortunately there's sti...

I'm concerned that you're coming here with this question. Stutterers get a bad taste in their mouth from inadequate speech therapy. Many of us see public school speech therapists, then other speech t...

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Speech & Language Therapy Hey all! I hope its okay to ask here, but I am a student speech and language therapist and I'm genuinely very interested to find out about your experiences with speech ther...

The part that helped me the most was the confidence and support my therapist gave me. It turns out that a lot of what was causing my stutter was my crippling self-confidence and social anxiety. Yes, I...

Finding effective speech therapy can be extremely challenging. That being said, effective speech therapy can greatly improve your fluency. It can be a tremendous amount of work, but anything that is ...

It is the same with me and with help from my therapist I have taken some control over my stutter the last couple of weeks and have become more fluent. It is constant practice but it helps...

Read out loud at least an hour a day. Most people who stutter speak fluently while reading out loud. Let your brain be trained to hear fluency from your lips. Search on YouTube for Lee Lovett. Also go...

And that is where the art of stuttering therapy comes into place and a good SLP will come up with a sensibile therapy individualized to you. There are many roads to Rome and some paths are better for ...

Recently restarted speech therapy and was told to learn to accept it; not "fix it". Altho will become more fluent...

That's good. You should know most SLPs don't really understand stuttering or know how to help, so it's not your fault. It's not because you didn't practice enough or whatever else. Finding a good SLP ...

Yea we've all had bad experiences. You shouldn't have gone for 4 years but you didn't know. Good therapy is a life saver ...

I feel that. I had other speech problems, so I had to go to speech therapy anyway. It was frustrating trying to explain that I couldn’t help my stutter, but luckily my other speech issues were helped....

Have any of you tried the SpeechEasy device? What were the results?

Have any of you tried the SpeechEasy device? What were the results? I’ve been using this device for the past few weeks. Noticed a slight difference, but I’m wondering if this device has changed someon...

It gets better and better. There are still times where I find myself not asking a question. Not because of my stutter. Just because of years of conditioning by my stutter. In these instances I make a...