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No, you're under no obligation to meet with the kid and talk to him. You never signed up to be any kind of mentor, and you don't need to. If you feel the need to do something, direct the person pres...

There are good ones out there, I promise! The challenge is school SLPs are generalists and stuttering is extremely complex and often the SLPs weakness. The NSA and other orgs are trying to train ...

I’ve had 6 speech therapists in my life. None of them provided any long term benefits because none of them understood stuttering beyond the mechanical. I’ve worked directly with the speech program at ...

From the sounds of it, you've not worked with anyone at the top of their field. As I suggested, ask your speech therapist for referrals for a private practice SLP who specializes in stuttering. You ...

But I’ve never had a speech therapist who can actually help. Everytime I get my hopes up when it comes to speech therapy I end up getting disappointed. The same way a couple months ago I thought the s...

True but I’ve had amazing speech therapists in my younger years who worked in a school district. They didn’t actually help my speech but atleast they put in an effort. One even personally went out of ...

Yeah if he doesn’t like high school speech there’s definitely a reason. My elementary and middle school speech therapists were the best and genuinely wanted to help me. I’m graduating high school in a...

Is this a speech therapist you're seeing outside of school? Or is this a speech therapist that works for your school district? I would call her out. Ask her for referrals as you don't believe she is ...

Stuttering can be profoundly troubling and confusing to both the child and parents. Please, please please contact the National Stuttering Association at https://www.westutter.org/. There is a LOT of v...

Is she comfortable talking about it? Because if she is, you could ask her! It's hard to suggest what the ideal response would be. Myabe it'd depend on the length of the blocks?...

If your insurance plan covers, you take them to a speech pathologist and they can give them tools as well as tools for parents to help a stuttering child. There is also all kinds of online material on...

Just want to chime in since OP didn't respond. There's a Meetup group people can join for daily practice, originally for English learners but now gathering anyone interested in improving their spoken ...

Where do you talk to strangers if I may ask? And if you're looking for more people to speak with online, please considerg joining my meetup which meets for speaking practice every day. Intended ori...

Therapy is costly and I'm a student and I don't have any source of income and I love to read books so can you pls suggest me any books?...

Please let us know what he says if you get through to him. I also have a 14 year old boy who stutters....

If I were to use my techniques and just get over it, why would I even be here? What is your problem?...

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Self Help Tips Can anyone recommend some self help tips that have helped for you to try over come your stammer especially when talking to new people, on telephone and saying your name? I had a block n...

That’s so nice !! I also want to stutter comfortably ahahaha any tips you have learnt during therapy?...

Any tips on how I should approach or letting me know how he approached you? Trying to work on it still :/...

Hey, thanks for your words. You are right, it just seems like right now is the peak of my struggles, and its up to me to really try to resolve it. Ill keep in mind what you said, and try my best to ov...