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If you are experiencing any educational impact, you may be eligible for speech again! I have worked with kids who stutter of all ages, some graduate out and come back when school gets tougher....

It sounds like it might be a stutter! Your example of "wh-wh-what" is a sound repetition. If you are experiencing any trouble in school, like giving presentations, participating in group discussion, o...

I am in public school. I was actually supposed to get a speech therapist because my grade 6 teacher noticed it, but right before I was supposed to start covid hit and that fell apart. How do I go abou...

Get an IEP in school ( if you are public school) and they will provide speech therapy for you. But speech therapy will give you the tools needed to use them in moments of disfluency. I’ve seen it work...

If you’re in the U.S. and in high school find out who the Speech-Language Therapist is who covers your school. Schedule a meeting with that person for advice. Good luck!...

Has anybody ever been to AIS? If so, how'd it go? Additionally, I have career fair Tuesday (and am applying to internships) and I'm nervous as hell

Has anybody ever been to AIS? If so, how'd it go? Additionally, I have career fair Tuesday (and am applying to internships) and I'm nervous as hell Hello, I start at AIS next week, I have my consulta...

I had to get more control of my stutter. Not _control_, but I had to figure out how to live with it and make it less burdensome for myself. Find a good speech therapist who actually knew how to help m...

Age 7 is a little old for normal disfluency. Especially if there’s any struggle behaviors, sound or word avoidances, frustration with speech, or tics/clicks/blinks it would be smart to get to an SLP. ...

Sometimes he stutters on plosive sounds I mentioned , but other times he doesn’t. Does this mean he still has speech issues? When I checked with his class teacher, she said she thinks it’s developmen...

We have had several apps or websites come through this subreddit wanting to help with stuttering. Unfortunately most are misguided and use archaic techniques/strategies that end up doing more harm th...

Which ones have you tried. I tried Stamurai but wasn't able to gain the habit of it and the training wasn't that good. Also another thing is all of em is very expensive. I want to build a free version...

Find something unique. There are quite a few stuttering related apps out there. Using an app instead of a licensed speech-language pathologist is NOT recommended. Collaborate with a licensed sp...

hmmm ya i also agree from my experience. I noticed a lot of stutter fix are "programme". what if its just a casual voice conversation with you and a bot and whenever you stutter/weird speech we dete...

As many have said before, stuttering is a neurological thing. I always hated it when people made any assumption of what it was… anything from the aforementioned useless advice to the suggestion of a w...

Your dear dad doesn’t understand that stuttering is a neurological problem and that you can’t just “will it” or “concentrate it” or “rehearse it” or “pray it” away. Obviously if you could easily fix ...

Female stutterer over here, I’ve never thought about this actually. It’s pretty interesting, I’ve only met male stutterers but I would love to hear from you girls. I personally have found it hard cons...

Thank you so much!! I’m not involved in his medical stuff because I’ve worked in a hospital before and don’t want to accidentally influence him, but I know he’s tried practically everything at this po...

Open communication is key. If he feels like his stutter is holding him back, reach out to a speech therapist, local groups, anything that he can dive into, and learn how to manage the symptoms of st...

If you decide you’d like to get outside help you should know the price and knowledge and skill of speech therapists varies a lot. If you live in the USA I recommend checking on the ASHA website to see...

what worked for you ? overcoming fear of stammering or working with speech therapist?...