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We are being silenced by the pendulum swing from one terrible set of SLP beliefs (treating dysfluency like it’s an articulation disorder) to another (toxic positivity of “just accept” without givin...

I'd rather someone who is thorough in the stuttering community rather than reductionist thinking like those that advocate for acceptance as the path forward....

Are we being silenced by acceptance?

Are we being silenced by acceptance? Who on here attends the National Stuttering Association-NSA Conference? I attended for the first time last year because I have a teenage daughter that stutters. An...

My 2 cents. The idea that stuttering happens because your brain is "faster than your mouth" is a total myth. Stuttering isn’t just about talking too fast or your mouth struggling to keep up with your ...

I’m saying that stuttering as a whole should 100% be classified as a disability but people misunderstood what I wrote....

Plus it seems like it only applies to stutter. So I should just sign to a deaf person be thankful they can still see, or say to a blind person be thankful they can still hear. That’s offensive to them...

And I don’t like this thinking. Stuttering is a disability. It doesn’t matter if someone has it worse, we still have it hard too. Saying someone should be thankful is just silencing them and invading ...

The fact that stuttering as a disability is even debated is absurd....

I think I get what you’re saying and you already touched on what I’m going to say. It’s a television show with a decent audience and, I hope anyway, that the producers wanted this interaction to raise...

Society has a great influence. Imagine living in a community that does not recognize stuttering, knows nothing about it, does not understand how it manifests, and considers it a psychological disorder...

I do agree. But i believe speech therapy has a place. Right now they just haven't figured out the right methods for long term improvements. Additionally, some people may prefer speech therapy over med...

I believe being a "successful stutter" is someone willing to embrace the challenges and hardship that comes with it. Not everyday is going to be better than the last and that's okay. It's about doing ...

i know it doesnt 100%, but i believe it does 99% i just say it is curable because we face enough negativity already, \- aim for the stars to get to the moon...

Cognitive behavioral therapy-adjacent behavior with exposure therapy. That’s what you’ve described. It lowers your fear and anxiety response to speaking in public. Great job! However, stuttering isn...

You are so right about brain chemistry. We are different from fluent individuals. I also believe that external factors can potentiate stuttering such as adverse childhood experiences, (abuse) adult tr...

I completely agree. I’ve posted about this on another thread and people got pissed at me. Such a total scam....

Absolutely, f*** speech therapy. I’ve never had a good experience in speech therapy, I’ve only ever felt humiliated and disappointed. Maybe there are good speech therapists out there, I don’t know, bu...

I was watching fluency techniques by different speech therapist, they all are saying in the end "you will still stutter" like a disclaimer. There are stutterers who will get panic attacks when someone...

Here is why you might be wrong, and some people have stopped stuttering. The brain is malleable, you can develop some new pathways that work much better. And when you stop using the old stuttering pat...

If you poke around here and finds the posts about drugs, You will find they are inconsistent, anecdotal, and sometimes placebo. Why we stutter? I dont know, but I can relate to the situational stutte...