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I've not read his book yet but his posts are giving me hopes of speech therapies and knowledges about the root cause of stutter,very helpful TBH. I guess the effectiveness of his book won't be disapp...

My speech therapist in the 6th grade had me do meditation. It's the only thing that actually worked on me. I was fluent the rest of the school year and the whole summer. Unfortunately I relapsed (is t...

You work both independently and with the speech therapist. You do most of the practising on your own and then both you and the speech therapist decide on what challenging speaking situations to work o...

Quick Hits: what the research says about improving fluency

Quick Hits: what the research says about improving fluency Hey everyone, we all read the posts every week from people suffering because of their stutter, unsure what to do about it, if there's anythin...

A speech therapist is your best option. I’ve been seeing one for somewhat around 2 years now, and i have greatly improved....

My speech therapist used to stutter herself and she still does today but shes much more fluent. Ive been with her for almost 6 months and she has helped me immensely, ive even talked to another retire...

I don't know that it had a name, per se. If it did, I wasn't aware of it. I saw Dr David Daly in the late 90's. I was under the impression that they customized the program to meet the needs of the in...

*PLEASE* stick with your speech therapy. Do the work. Follow their directions. Trust. Believe. Speech is complex. In my experience, therapy didn't yield immediate results. There was no measurable imp...

This is completely something that I would have liked personally growing up: teach them that practicing isn't embarrassing or shameful. I had to practice whatever technique at home, and honestly most ...

I just want to say that not many SLPs post here for some reason. I’m glad that you’re reaching out. I’m I’ll be an SLP in the future! Best of luck in your work! When I was in 3rd or 4rth grade I coul...

The Gameplan: putting stuttering research into action to improve fluency

The Gameplan: putting stuttering research into action to improve fluency This chapter makes a lot of references to my [two](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/pl522u/neuropathology_why_stuttere...

Speech Therapy and Neuroplasticity: How and why speech therapy increases fluency

Speech Therapy and Neuroplasticity: How and why speech therapy increases fluency This post follows [my previous post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/pl522u/neuropathology_why_stutterers_bra...

I’m sorry. I am thankful I met an absolutely awesome speech path at an early age and luckily drastically improved....

I had to look up NLP anchor, and I'm not sure I have a decent grasp on what NLP anchoring actually is... When I speak of physical cues, these were physical cues that I used to reinforce the transiti...

By a "physical cue" you mean like a "nlp anchor"? If so, then how did you create such a cue and link it to your speech?...

Sorry to hear your experiences with speech therapy haven't helped you achieve your goals. That sucks. The program I experienced was also 1:1 therapy. But it was a 'rebuild from the ground up' program...

It was purely 1:1 therapy focused on teaching/applying techniques. It personally frustrated me because all these do is eventuate to someone speaking at a slower rate with a softer tone. This is not n...

Ive gone through about 4-5 diff SLPS from childhood and only recent had one about 2 years ago in my mid twenties. It was really demoralizing since none of the concepts/techniques were new. I feel the ...

That’s good advice, although I wish I would’ve known that sooner. I guess I can use this for future presentations....

I have been in speech therapy since 1st grade, and from my experience the whole point is to give you strategies to help prevent stuttering. They always told me there wasn’t a cure, so the best think ...