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I did the program years ago, still use a costal breath in certain situations. If I’m being honest the program itself turned me from basically mute into controlled speech. I don’t practice as much any ...
Yes, I joined the McGuire Programme in the late 1990s and was very active for 10 years. The breathing worked pretty well for me, but it has to be used in conjunction with the other techniques they tea...
Stuttering being linked to confidence/good mental state
Stuttering being linked to confidence/good mental state I've noticed that whenever I manage to keep a positive attitude towards my speech and face speaking situations confidently, I encounter a lot le...
I do the same thing and it helps me massively. I think of it as linking all of your words together as one. It works too if you do it in a non-monotone voice – the important part is that you focus on h...
I try to stop myself from overthinking and beating myself up over it. There's a million different coping strategies, some healthier than others. Lately, I've been finding good success with meditation ...
Has anyone tried Costal diaphragm breathing
Has anyone tried Costal diaphragm breathing Recently, I was reading "Beyond sttuttering" by Dave Mcguire. In his book he has mentioned that those breathe with costal diaphragm achieve more fluency & e...
Hello, i went through this with my friend, he had a stutter but he never think what he is going to say in front of people always act spanteneously and i advice you to speak more with your self and do ...
Me too but I didn’t start it so early, I had it about grade six when I was in primary school. And now I am much better, I think one way is stop controlling your language and find right way to communic...
As an older person, 51, these are things i wish i had been taught in speech therapy but i never was We should teach kids it's okay to stutter and that when they do stutter, rather than getting upset,...
Do you have any fluency tips that you use? Are you using them? Do some deep breaths, it will be ok. Breathing is the key to fluency Show yourself some grace and go easy on yourself. Beating yoursel...
YOUR STORY IS LIKE MY FRIEND I WENT THROUGH THIS WITH HIM he was so upset with his tongue but he start doing the work at home like speaking with ted talks loudly you can get over this by your self...
As a SLP and a person who stutters I strongly believe that we have what I call a “stuttering brain”. There is definitely a disconnect between our speaking and our breathing. We have a brain that does ...
Ive went to 6 teachers overall and its 90% better. So yes u can overcome it. It just needs effort and effort. Its not like ur tongue has a deformation or some disability as people say. Stuttering is a...
Check out Lee Lovett’s stuttering program and his crutches. There are eight crutches to help you with feared words, such as your name. My favorite is to insert a sound before and jam in the fear word...
It depends. When I was in elementary and high school, I had "speech therapy" at school but the therapists were... not very good. They tried, just weren't that capable. A few years after I graduated HS...
HELLO, do the work at home in your room you can help your self following videos in youtube speaking or ted talks but do it loudly that's gonna help you, wish you all the best...
I was a severe stutterer. Never a fluent sentence. Blocks that lasted longer than I had air in my lungs. When I went back to speech therapy and was serious about it, I got fluent in under a year. Be...
My SLP once told me "You need to learn how to stutter before you can learn how to speak fluently." That really stuck with me. I saw my stutter as a task to accomplish instead of a burden to carry....
SLP and PWS here. We need to stop sending conflicting messages. I see MANY SLPs embrace the counseling, acceptance and social/emotional aspects of stuttering therapy, then tell the student, “okay le...
My speech therapy helped me so much in every way. While I’ll never be “cured” of my stutter, speech therapy has been the closest. I worked on my confidence, my blocks, and getting control my diaphragm...