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Good, effective stuttering therapy is hard to find but it is out there. It can make a huge different so I wouldn't give up the search for someone who understands stuttering and won't simply work with ...

I got speech therapy for around 7 years when I was young and I barely stutter anymore. My dad helped me with my speech therapy exercise and applied them on humself and he went from a medium stutter to...

What are the Techniques to control stuttering?

What are the Techniques to control stuttering? **What are the Techniques to control stuttering?** **1-The correct breathing to control Stuttering:** * **Ribcage breathing:** Rib breathing differs fr...

In general, getting health/medical advice from YouTube comments is, not really a wise idea. HEeeeeLLoooO?!? Human communication depends greatly on tone, as shown above. If you are not a preschoo...

It was the opposite for my child. She started to stutter when she was 5, we put her in speech therapy and it worked wonders....

It depends on the therapist/practice, my speech therapist is the reason I am who I am today and I’m very glad I did it. The techniques they gave me to use when I stuttered worked for the most part but...

I did it as a kid (8-12). I found it quite helpful. I went from stuttering frequently to much less. I still stutter but mostly when excited or stressed. Honestly, I feel like what I learned would be h...

I did speech therapy when I was 21. (I’m 55 now). Helped me tremendously! It was expensive tho and at the end, when I thought I was “cured” the therapist told me “no, you’ll always stutter, now you h...

Excellent comparison. Guess what? There’s a free podcast by a speech therapist *who is one of the few who specializes in stuttering*, who also used to be barely able to talk from stuttering. It wil...

First of all… I always remember you as the guy who took a major courageous leap in taking your job! Really. So you have already done the hardest part - putting yourself out there. I had been stutte...

Fluency shaping (prolongations) works for some people. Others hate it and I understand that. Why encumber your speech further for something that is not reliable? For me, it has been a lifesaver. I...

It did for me in some ways, I was in elementary school so I don’t remember everything. The major improvement was my pronunciation. The SLP at my school asked my parents to take a video recording of me...

Yes! I had an abusive childhood that caused me trauma all my adult life, which I had never sufficiently dealt with. After addressing my deep feelings of anger and betrayal in therapy, I became totall...

Yes. Yes, it can make a tremendous difference. I had a severe stutter until my mid 20s. From as early as I can recall, I stuttered. I had speech therapy through the public schools. It didn't help. ...

I read to my daughter almost every night. She hasn't had a problem yet. Sometimes I'll do voices, or use some different techniques, but it's always enjoyable for both of us. Usually I'm more fluent wh...

You're absolutely right, the techniques for each kind are different. Voluntary repetition actually helps a lot when we are in a phase(?) which we have a blocking error in our speech system (vocal cord...

Unfortunately, as you know, “stay positive “just isn’t enough for many of us. This is what I did - listened to Tim Mackesey’s free podcast about the hows and whys of stuttering. He’s a SLP who stutt...

McGuire vs HCRI vs SLP

McGuire vs HCRI vs SLP I just joined this community and appreciate all the information on here. My son who is about to turn 12 stutters. It's starting to affect his self confidence and he wants a fix....

It’s not meant to be a cure but to teach you tools to help you get through difficult situations. I am sorry it didn’t work for you though. However it is beneficial to others. It helped me alot in elem...

*person with a stutter who’s a final year speech pathologist student* Stammering is such a unique case to each individual that some methods of therapy won’t work for everyone. I, for example, have st...