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Reducing stutter, speaking slowly but how to increase my discipline?

Reducing stutter, speaking slowly but how to increase my discipline? I have a question. What should I do in my situation? __________ Situation: I never stutter when I speak very slow. I want to ...

Go through many techniques, find what works for you. Make a list and rotate them whenever your brain adapts to them. This was my solution. ...

You're not alone, that's for sure. I'm in the exact same boat where my mind starts racing when I know I have to speak. In my first speech therapy session, she tried a few techniques on me. The first o...

Social anxiety and stutter getting worse

Social anxiety and stutter getting worse First time posting in this sub so howdy everyone. 30 year old male and I've stuttered all my life. I never really cared about it up until when adulthood real...

Ex-stutterer here. Might i add to this that prolongation isn't a technique but more of a coping mechanism. A trick so to say. Prolongation is essentially just another form of stuttering, one of the 10...

Best way to help my stutter?

Best way to help my stutter? I have a problem when I am talking, I loose my breath and it sounds like I have the hiccups. Someone told me online it could be dysrythmic phonation and I think it could b...

When people perform they often don't stutter. This isn't 'overcoming' stuttering, it's a strategy to mitigate it. Overcoming stuttering is about becoming comfortable and confident with your speech. U...

Maybe it works, right now I'm watching a speech program on Udemy and it advocates that you should watch fluent speakers and practice mimicking them a lot. It can give you confidence that you're able t...

My theory for a way to overcome a stutter

My theory for a way to overcome a stutter I've recently been thinking about something: Is it possible to "copy" someone else's speaking patterns? I mean, everyone has a way of speaking, fluent or not,...

[RESOURCE] Speech Therapy Techniques

[RESOURCE] Speech Therapy Techniques Hey r/Stutter I'm trying to compile speech therapy techniques that we all probably learned in the past. Stuttering is a very complex disorder and it's hard to reme...

McGuire Programme Australia and New Zealand

McGuire Programme Australia and New Zealand If you are in Australia or New Zealand and would like to tackle your stutter head on and go beyond stuttering - The next McGuire Programme intensive course ...

Realistically, 1 second - 6 seconds. Pausing, taking a deep breath, collecting myself, and most other actions that shift my self-awareness squarely on relaxing my speech tend to help provide a quick c...

As long as I can hold my breath. So after a few seconds I exhale and take another stab at it. Works pretty well if I remember not to push too hard....

i'm a blocker. i've heard people say that blocking is the harder one to shake off. i'm actually trying to "stutter more easily" now or almost switch my blocking to more repetitions or something that ...

I look at is as motivation like I can do it too. Yeah so I went to a lot of speech therapy and they told me similar items - telling people before interviews, easy onset, prolonging so won't have be ...

When I was a teenager (35 now), I had this idealization that my stutter would eventually just ... go away and when I got older everything would be 'normal'. That never happened and here I am, 35 and ...

I kind of understand what you mean. It might be similar to what I was taught - easy onset? Have you heard of that? It's like saying the first letter in a very loose way but to me, it doesn't sound nat...

So soft touch is a method I got taught about feeling when a letter or sound is difficult to say. So for me my letters I struggle with are X & B. Both have tough sounds in them, so with the letter ...

Okay how do I use the "soft touch" in words with c/k/g sound? I want it to sound as natural as possible. Those are my trouble sounds plus s and f. Got it. That's the same as me. So that's good the...

Support and encouragement is the best solution. The main techniques I use is always thinking of the “soft touch” so mentally preparing how I can say a word in a soft tone so it doesn’t make my throa...