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commentr/StutterMay 15, 2024
1 points

the McGuire Program, developed and coached by people who have a lifelong stutter. You wouldn't know they stuttered speaking to them because of techniques and working through bad habits/fears. Changed ...

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commentr/StutterMay 15, 2024
2 points

I did a course so we practiced in a small group. After that also in real life. But I was super insecure, so not always. But I tried to do it often enough....

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commentr/StutterMay 15, 2024
7 points

If it's the same method discussed in the article mentioned below, you should be able to shorten the prolongations until it's akin to regular speech. The article also mentions that this technique is th...

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commentr/StutterMay 14, 2024
1 points

So I know this was 3yrs show but I MUST leave a review. I joined for my son over a year now and just say how much I LOVE it!  I wanted the private route vs going through the DOE for my son who only ne...

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commentr/StutterMay 14, 2024
5 points

Did it as a child (school based), teen (private), and adult (mid 20s.) Went from a severe stutterer to fluent in a relatively short period of time as an adult. Under a year. Same SLP I saw as a teen...

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commentr/StutterMay 14, 2024
1 points

I am no longer fluent but I have been completely fluent several times in my life. Each time I achieved fluency was from attending [HCRI](https://www.stuttering.org/). For me the program works great ...

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commentr/StutterMay 10, 2024
2 points

I've had several guests on my podcast who completed that program. If my memory hasn't failed me, I believe one of my guest's name was Callum Schofield; I can't remember the others, but they had posi...

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commentr/StutterMay 10, 2024
1 points

I sympathise with you and when I was younger I had similar feelings. Have you tried any forms of therapy? This was the turning point for me. It helped me see my stutter as something that happens but n...

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postr/StutterMay 7, 2024
7 points

Practice on zoom , professionals, remote workers

Practice on zoom , professionals, remote workers Hey all! I'm curious to see if folks would be up for having some video chats on Zoom to practice speaking. I tend to have a lot of high stress Zoom me...

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commentr/StutterMay 5, 2024
1 points

Only through school speech therapy. One barely had it and eventually got over it completely and the other had it really bad and still has it....

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commentr/StutterMay 5, 2024
1 points

Sounds very similar to me when I was around 12-14 I told my mum too that therapy wasn’t helping and till this day I think my stutter has just become better overtime naturally and MAYBE because of my t...

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commentr/StutterMay 5, 2024
2 points

I replied to the original post already but yeah l've also had the same experience with a therapy group however it was definitely less than 15 more like 6 and it felt like they were all around the same...

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commentr/StutterMay 5, 2024
2 points

Yes, when I was a lil younger I had this speech and language therapy and for a couple weeks my therapy sessions were with a few kids a couple years younger than me that also had a stutter, however I k...

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commentr/StutterMay 4, 2024
3 points

I went to a group stuttering Therapy class with around 15 stutterers of differing levels but 90% of them dropped out after 2 sessions after they told us they would record us stuttering then show us in...

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commentr/StutterMay 4, 2024
3 points

Man you are quite the age, how did you treat stuttering in your 20s?...

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commentr/StutterMay 3, 2024
2 points

Sounds very similar to my experience with therapy as a kid. Your son is very lucky to have such a caring parent! I'm 23 now, and I have only recently come to terms with the fact that my stutter will n...

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commentr/StutterMay 3, 2024
1 points

I am sorry to say this, but as a stutterer, I feel like you are at least partially responsible for your son’s stutter. Rushing a 3-year-old toddler to therapy because of stuttering, and making him do ...

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commentr/StutterMay 2, 2024
2 points

Weekly speech therapy is a pain ngl, last summer I was apart of a clinical study on the affect of a bunch of therapy for a week straight. 8 hours a day for a week did suck, but I learned a lot and it ...

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commentr/StutterMay 2, 2024
2 points

I’m 24 and your description sounds similar to how I was when I was 14. I think speech therapy definitely did not help and was a complete waste. Your son sounds like he will be a-ok....

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commentr/StutterMay 2, 2024
4 points

I’m a speech therapist and I often get 12, 13, 14 year old boys who come in for stuttering therapy because their parents want them to. It’s not really effective if they themselves aren’t interested. I...

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