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Remember you don't need 100% fluency for therapy to be a success. If you could replace blocks with easier repetitions and less anxiety, that's success i would say 🙂...

Has anyone actually improved their fluency through Speech Therapy?

Has anyone actually improved their fluency through Speech Therapy? My SLP told me that speech therapy for fluency is only effective in young children, and that it wouldn't work for an adult. I have h...

The hardest thing for my mom to do was tell me about a speech course. a guy on a realty TV show made the course famous by his transformation, so she saw heard about it. we paid half each, and it chan...

There is treatment! It’s just not a magical spell that completely removes your stutter. I have been seeing a speech therapist for a little over 3 years now, and she’s done wonders for me! Blockages ar...

Oof! I understand this. I knew that reading to others was always a consistent problem, so for my baseline, I would read. And each session I would read to her and we would work on strategies. As I po...

There’s not going to be a cure, only strategies that you’ll learn to help and hopefully a mindset change (in the positive direction) about your fluency. My first therapist was ass. I got another one...

Speech therapy with an SLP who specializes in stuttering. A systemic approach to fluency. No tips or tricks. In my experience, therapy that approaches fluency with tips or tricks isn't effective. ...

What kind of work did you do to achieve fluency? I feel like I've tried almost everything at this point...

Thank you. But I'm speaking from experience. I did the work and achieved fluency. I was fortunate to find therapy that was able to help me improve my fluency. I was fairly severe. * Never a fluent ...

>It's not something you just "work on and fix". Disagree. It's incredibly hard to work on and improve your fluency, but it's possible. Many of us have experience with ineffective speech therapy ...

Does anyone else aspire to be a speech language pathologist?

Does anyone else aspire to be a speech language pathologist? After having a rockstar therapist years ago, I knew that I also wanted to help people with fluency problems. We have a special insight into...

I am not an expert... In my experience, therapy that approaches fluency with tips or tricks isn't effective. For me, world class therapy was a system. Building and developing the basics. Building o...

Yup. Therapy techniques learned from good SLPs help me the most....

Sure thing. Tell your brother to stick with therapy; the techniques I learned help me the most in my daily fluency struggle....

I couldn’t tell you a particular type or name. It was 20 years ago. The speech pathologist focused on fluency and slow speech. I can tell you that much. The effects have stayed for 20 years. I went in...

Zoom call for practice?

Zoom call for practice? Hi. Would anyone be interested in doing a zoom call as a way to practice our speech? For context I’m a 39 year old guy in California. Stuttered pretty much my whole life, ran...

This is so true! My brother stutters and he passed it on to his kid and with the help of speech therapy, the kid is 100% fluent now...

At least we know something that works, thanks for sharing. In the future they can make more sustainable therapies based off of this kind of information....

zoom call

zoom call Who wants to go on zoom call, and debate some topics or have a simple INTELECTUAL CONVERSATIONS, or even act, just so we can practice our communication skills...

Speech Therapy Tool

Speech Therapy Tool Hi everyone! My name is Kaustubh, and recently my friend and I developed an online speech tool called StutterOn. StutterOn is a free tool that allows those who stutter to work on ...