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In my own personal experience, I found success in heavily drilling fluency shaping strategies and continuously pushing myself to speak in situations I didn’t feel comfortable in....

There's this breath with sound kinda thing that may help against a block.  Do a light breath out with an "ah" sound for instance and then go into the word.  ...

I find less speed can help but it certainly does not consistently create fluency. My fluency came from an understanding of controlling my Valsalva response. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am not to h...

Do you think that it’s a neuro glitch? Everyone tells me to just speak slow and I. Am. Speaking. Really. Slow. But. It. Doesn’t really help ....

This is why I trained my brain to interact with my Valsalva response so that it coincides with my speech. I only use the Valsalva response when lifting something heavy. During speech I never activate ...

Bill does do a lot of breathing and phonation exercises . He focuses mostly on the psychology of stuttering , though. A more severe stutterer would benefit more from fluency shaping, I believe ....

Self monitoring causes a viscous cycle for us stutterers. The more we focus on HOW we speak, the higher probability of blocks, and we self sabotage by continually self monitoring. This cycle makes the...

I found when I was having a daily morning coffee, it would totally wreck my speech for the day. I never really thought about it until one day I decided to cut out caffeine and refined sugars from my d...

Hi! I have a similar type of stutter, one where specific syllables get stuck in my throat and the more I try to force them out, the worse the block is. You need to have both, basically. All the tech...

Desensitization, technique, or both?

Desensitization, technique, or both? I’ve more or less figured out what type of stuttering I have — it’s a block-type stutter. But more importantly, I’ve realized that I’m afraid of stuttering while t...

Trying and improvement

Trying and improvement Hello, I am an English Teacher and and I have a stutter. I think it is not that severe, but when I stutter it becomes hard to control and the more I think about it, the worse it...

I am also an English teacher with stutter, maybe with practice we can control our stutter?...

Of course this drug can temporarily ease muscle tension, which might make speech feel smoother. But it’s important to be careful here. Drugs like Baclofen aren’t designed or approved for treating stut...

Baclofen

Baclofen I’ve been experimenting with Baclofen over the last few days, and noticed it significantly improves my fluency. Baclofen is a GABA-B agonist which relaxes your muscles. I’ve been taking 20m...

Its exactly opposite for me while reading i can maitain my flow of speech perfectly ,maybe cause my speech therapist made me practice reading with a metronome a lot ,whereas while just speaking my flo...

How do you go on the offensive? Like doing breathing exercises daily, reading aloud from a book? Practicing in front a mirror? Looking for ways to improve by only 10%....

Yep. Reading aloud is just about impossible for me, even after all these years of learning different coping strategies and fluency tricks. I simply refuse to do it. I used to be in a writing group and...

I accepted what I had at around 16 and decided I was just gonna play the cards. Threw myself to the wolves with my first job and it helped me tremendously in practically applying the things I learned ...

I never used his method. I used his research to develop my own process toward fluency. I am a speech pathologist so I have a greater understanding of how speech is produced. I took his information on ...

100% this! I used to have a *very* severe stutter and could barely even talk. I did speech therapy will Bill Parry who founded this method and I swear to god it was like finding a hack for my stutteri...