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Making videos/narration can be a good venue to practice. I say just start, redo parts, practice and stutter.. I've never heard you speak, but you may be surprised how often people don't notice....

If you want to narrate videos you can, and just do several takes if you stutter. Or use narration to practice stuttering techniques? That's what I plan on doing. most people won't care and they'll sup...

I am minoring in ASL and have a stutter. I found that if I finger spell during speaking it made the sounds come out more smoothly then without it. It keeps up the ASL practice while still speaking. No...

The time you spend learning ASL could be spent in speech therapy. I am a mod-severe person who stutters. I also know ASL. One can still be a good communicator and stutter. I would rather speak...

Learning ASL is not going to help a person become more functional in day to day life. If they imbed themselves in the dead community, maybe. It’s like saying, “I stutter in English but not in Germ...

15 - Talk slower I’m 15 and I stutter, it’s about a 6/10 so it’s not too bad but it’s very noticeable, the way I can eliminate almost all of my stuttering is to talk slower, I realized I spoke like a...

Closing my eyes while talking helps me immensely. It reduces the amount of mental input and helps me focus more....

These are techniques I've learned in speech therapy, I hope I explain them well enough. 1) Diaphragmatic breathing. Breathe in for 2 seconds, out for four. Make sure your stomach rises and falls, no...

Don’t be afraid to stutter! Best tip I can offer once you get over the fact that you stutter and it happens fluency really becomes second nature. Of course you’ll still stutter but going into a conver...

If you have problems with saying your name, either start with "My name is ___" or "The order would be under ____". Something to space it out helps me a lot. As well as exhale while your saying your na...

Ehh, have to slightly disagree. A lot of therapists focus on avoidance or minimization. Barely any focus on embracing or accepting the disfluency which is a MAJOR part of improving speech. ...

I agree with you completely about stuttering and adaptation being individualized. I too have felt that feeling of the stuttering walls close in on me. Its like eventually all these tricks stop working...

I’m a guy my man but it doesn’t matter why or how you were born that way it happened you can’t change it so it’s best to figure out how to live with it and idk if you do this but for me reading out lo...

I can totally relate. What I do is when I meet someonenew I tell them I have a stutter. I feel like when people laugh it's not because they are trying to be huge disks but they are uncomfortable ...

Tips and Tricks to get through a bad moment that worked for me!

Tips and Tricks to get through a bad moment that worked for me! **This is LONG!** I am not an SLP, just a person who stutters. As such my advice comes from personal experience rather than scientific ...

Only my close friends can joke with me about it because I think they understand from being around me since high school how much it sucks. But yeah, for just one day I would love to be able to talk flu...

It's a fairly common thing for people who stutter to hold their breath right before they start speaking, if that's what you mean by freezing up. I guess the way to avoid this is continue with diaphrag...

I've been doing this more often too. If I keep my pitch low enough and kind of look down on that front end of the word, often times its unnoticeable. ...

Try relaxing your mouth, tongue, and throat when you talk. Also, if you can, try not hitting the roof of your mouth when talking. Works for me and it isn't as bad (but still pretty noticeable) ...

i agree! i also sometimes go for light repetitions as opposed to a hard block, so if i have to say david i'll do light a light touch with reduced pressure that will end up being "da-da-da david". it's...