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Stutter recently flared up

Stutter recently flared up Hey all, So basically in the last like 4 weeks my stutter has flared up quite a bit. It's strange, because I think it's related to stress and anxiety in general, but also s...

I really find that the first two help me, but I'm curious about the third. How do you balance speaking passionately but still keeping your chest/shoulders calm and not tense (when I get that feeling o...

This is really solid advice. I try to do all of them, I definitely have trouble slowing down and taking my time but when I do it significantly helps. Speaking with emotion and intonation, SO true. ...

Some thoughts and things that help me be fluent

Some thoughts and things that help me be fluent So I’ve had a moderate stutter my whole life. Recently though, this past month, I’ve been the most fluent I’ve been in a while. I wanted to share some r...

Walking back and forth helps me on phone calls. Also if the first word of the call is the hardest, write down hello or hi on a piece of paper and read it to start (I never stutter if I’m reading somet...

i relate so much. i began stuttering mildly when i was 6, but i was oblivious to it until i reached the age of 11 and i was trying to read out lines in a school play. i experienced my first ‘speech bl...

You can either take a half second pause and do the same technique or restart the whole word or sentence using the technique. It just depends on how you would like your fluency to be. You don’t even re...

Oh, okay I see. I quite often get a repetitive stutter, for example the word paramount, I’d stutter on the first part, para-para-para... until I’d run out of breath. What works for me here and what mi...

Start talking at the top of your inhalation and incorporate initial low vibration into your exhalation as you speak. Relax your jaw and face. Don’t mash your lips together...

***Speak slowly*** and ***know your material inside and out***. Dont memorize it, but be able to talk about it. Show your genuine interest in it if possible. Recognize that everyone gets nervous in fr...

Trying different techniques, for example, adding an “umm” or “aa” before the sentence. What works for me is acting more confident than I really am. Standing up straight, keeping shoulders back and s...

Practice your fluency! (Rolling sounds into each other each other with no real separation!) It takes a bit of work to speak at a regular pace, but well worth it....

I don't really know much (if anything) about hypnotherapy, but do you mean a couple sessions to probe your subconscious and try to eliminate potential trauma that may incite a stutter? Do you mean som...

I think the best thing to do for this would be easy onset. It's a speech strategy used for vowels. Basically what you have to do is pronounce the sound softly. If you stutter on the "in" part of "in...

I knew of a guy who had a very severe stutter but his fiancé just had to have a big African wedding with like 2000 people. TBH I dont think it was just the fiancé, his family also wanted a super big w...

I found that i didn’t stutter too bad when repeating the officiant’s words. I had him go with the most standard basic vows and I got through okay. Good luck. 👍🏻...

I practiced the hell out of my vows, I could recite them forwards and backwards. Helped a lot. Didn’t stutter once, at least I think I didn’t....

Maybe when I'm tired or under a lot of pressure or stressed.. When I'm frustrated about something, and then I'm stuttering - if I'm having a hard time getting something out I might interrupt someone e...

Of course you can. You should just take your time doing it. Support people talk to all different kinds of people, and you shouldn’t avoid doing such a basic thing. Only by doing it, will you improve y...

I agree, taking a breath and talking slowly should help alot but it's really not that easy to do in the heat of the moment for some reason. I want to make talking slowly a habit....