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Be calm Take a lot of pauses Even if you stutter just own it...

Yes, when you reduce your fear of stuttering you will let yourself make a sound instead of block. When you reduce your fear further, you'll let yourself stutter on that sound where you would have prev...

If you think anxiety triggers the blockages, look into some things you can do to reduce situational anxiety ( breathing meditation for example). I've the same problem... I cannot get my name out, an...

I think it’s because we are social creatures. When we are alone our brain goes into alone mode. When we are with others we are in our social mode, but ours is broken. Very scientific, I know, but that...

The first stage is acceptance. We unlucky few who bring a stutter into adulthood have to accept that for the foreseeable future this is the way it is, but that’s not a death sentence. There are many...

This is what helps me get past the 'freeze': When you feel you're in a situation that might cause you to freeze, slowwww down everything. Slow down your thought process, slow your movements, slow yo...

I've bluffed my way out of a stop. When the cop asked if I had been drinking, I got indignant and angry. Told him I had a speech impediment. He apologized and let me go. Another time, when asked to d...

I know it’s easier said than done, but you have to put yourself out there to meet people and own your stutter (like another poster said). It *will* be uncomfortable and hard, but the more you do it th...

Can’t give the best advice as I’m still working to overcome it myself. Best thing I would say it to force yourself In uncomfortable situations....

A message to the researchers. In my opinion: Future research should investigate "internal timing cues"-interventions (as opposed to external speech motor timing cues e.g., a metronome). Future re...

Go for it. Regardless of your stuttering, it's your content that's important. All of us have anxiety related to public speaking. It does become easier. Do you remember the concept of desensitizatio...

Great comment! Question: What can we do if we use affirmations suggested by OP, while desensitizing to such **pressure** that you pointed out? (e.g., **pressure** to speak more fluently, time **pressu...

Do you stutter when you're alone?

Do you stutter when you're alone? I hardly ever stutter when I am alone. When I'm alone I can read/think out loud and be completely fluent. I'm just curious if this is the experience of other people...

Hey! I personally am not an individual who stutters, but I think your idea has so much potential. I am an aspiring SLP, and in the last three months of my internship I have gravitated to the stutterin...

It sounds scary to most of us PWDs, but it could help you. If it is anxiety, there is a psychological school of thought that posits that you can be desensitized by doing incremental things that frigh...

what it is very very very difficult to understand for most PWS is that 'accepting' your stuttering is the FIRST thing that needs to happen before you're on your road to 'fixing' it. For me, and for m...

I thought about hypnosis, would it be possible for a hypnotist to make you forget about your stuttering ? Would it then "cure" you or reduce it extremely ?...

Well can anyone really control what thoughts come into their head? Generally I'd say no. But what we can control is how much energy we give the thought. We can choose to no latch onto certain thoughts...

We are our own worst critics. My childhood was devoid of acceptance after I started stuttering. I stopped feeling loved by my parents and have associated stuttering with shame. There are so many be...

I’ve tried that method of acceptance and going through blocks but for me some blocks are so bad I physically can not say them. But so far Lee lovetts method is going great for me...