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Quoted from /u/dildobaginzz "If you push out your belly forcefully with abdominal muscles and diaphragm, and hold them tightly while speaking, the block disappears. Useful trick."...

Hi Finnegan, when you feel tension in your chest/throat (depending on the word) try breathing in, and on the exhale start the sentence. I am someone that chronically suffers from the same problem and ...

This is the best advice right here ^^ Another thing I used to do was show up for class and start speaking out loud before anyone else arrived. It's more a prep to get used to saying words out loud i...

My opinion would be go simultaneously. It's no use in having the "techniques" but not exposing yourself to situations where your stuttering can produce itself, and also for some people dragging themse...

Various breathing techniques, fluency therapy, changing speech tone, speaking while exaggerating worked for me also now i'm onto building confidence part of my therapy...

As rough as this post may sound to some, it's absolutely correct in that you are in essence wholly responsible for bettering your fluency. Even if you don't want to make the shift to extrovertism, y...

It's definitely a good approach to improving your life with a stutter. Although at the same time I feel everyone's on their own journey. It isn't always as easy for some people, and I think it's good ...

Tanks on your answer, I think that these will be helpful in my work. So the best thing is combination of methods. And I really like the mirror thing, because my first contact out of clinic was buying ...

I have been doing a thing for a while and I have found it to be very useful, it consist in you speaking in front of the mirror like you were talking to another person everyday. You can really practice...

Would it help if you said it quietly? Volume control and varying vocal pitch helps me say a lot of words that I used to be scared of, then once you say it enough times, you'll diffuse the fear out of ...

Start off speaking really slow. I remember being sick gave me an excuse to talk slower because my senses weren't all there. Or sometimes, when I would feel myself start to stutter, i'd just say "excus...

For me it works better if i say "My name is Peter" And not just answer the question with "Peter". ...

I hope you're ready to read. These are tricks that I've learned in years of speech therapy and some tricks that I learned on my own. Ready? Okay so it's obvious that you're in a very agitated state. ...

What has worked for me: - "I don't give a damn" attitude, - focusing on my purpose and role in speech, seeing myself from outside during speech - being angry always works but obviously I can't use i...

Hey, I've had both speech therapy for stuttering and voice lessons for singing at various points in my life, though I'm currently not in either. Also, the singing lessons were not meant to address my ...

Try to gesticulate with your hands slowly. If the gesticulation is slow, your speech becomes slower, too. On the other hand (no pun intended :D), faster gesticulation means faster speech....

I agree its never too late for speech therapy! But judging by your age (I remember the struggle at that age) I know exactly what your saying. When the teacher would go up and down the rows or alphabet...

Stuttering is not an easy problem so solve. It can get better as you get older, and often does, but not very quickly. Meditation and relaxation exercises? Well, those might help, in the same way a ...

Yea, definitely. For me, it helped astronomically because the worst thing someone can do is try to hide the fact that they stutter. I used to think I can but I realize how big of a foolish endeavor th...

I tried to get out of my required COM class when I college and my advisor wouldn't let me. I would argue that it was the best thing I ever did to help improve my stuttering. Before that COM class, I ...