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I am a speech pathologist and a lifelong stutterer. I spent many years researching how the brain learns. I discovered that my brain is wired differently than a fluent brain. I found that I did not hav...

Yeah thanks for the suggestion man, i think that’s a great way to build fluency especially when all else fails...

I started with a book by William Parry who talks about the relationship between the Valsalva response and stuttering. He talks about that if you want to be fluent you need to maintain, easy airflow d...

Stammering is only your habit!

Stammering is only your habit! I used to believe that stammering was something I was born with… something I had no control over. But the truth is — stammering is just a habit. A deeply rooted one, yes...

I’m a lawyer and I’ve had to learn to speak publicly. My best tip came from my daughter, who is a stutterer, too. When you’re about to block, just slide your hand across a podium or down the side of y...

But if you don't stutter or block when you force yourself to use that technique, why do you think that speech therapy was useless? I mean, one way or another, you don't stutter/block anymore....

I have to be honest with you. I am doing speech therapy for some years now. And the technique called „fluency shaping“ is difficult.. It does not help to pull you out of a block. At least not for me....

I also experience these, what’s helps is that if I feel a speech block come on, I just think of the word in my brain and think how easy the word is to say. The word is just a bunch of syllables, so I ...

I have fight many times against accepting stuttering, it is stupid, accepting can be the small part in the treatment use as desensitization, not like "accept the stuttering and don't do anything else"...

hi frnd, u could pause the moment you start to stutter. Take a deep breath and resume when you exhale . Also start your research finding alternative words for which you tend to stutter....

If you haven't taken speech therapy, consider taking one. Some common techniques that are taught commonly are 1) stretching first syllable or stretching all vowels (stretching first syllable is mo...

First of all stutter really varies and the same tricks dont work for everyone, so I dont have any specific tricks in mind. You already told him some basic tricks but don't stress about it too much or ...

A good test is to take a sentence from a text and repeat it by mouthing it with no voice. If you do not stutter then you know it is not a problem in articulating the word. Usually it is a problem with...

Online Stuttering Therapy Program - Research Opportunity

Online Stuttering Therapy Program - Research Opportunity Researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center are excited to invite you to participate in a research study exploring an inno...

This is the HARDEST part of reaching fluency. A stuttering brain instructs the vocal cords to close during speech whereas a fluent brain instructs the vocal cords to remain open during speech. You are...

Can you speak more on teaching your brain how to maintain consistent airflow? I feel like I struggle with this as well...

You have to accept on some level that you have a speech disorder and that there is no cure. This will protect you from the people trying to sell you so-called cures. Once you've done that, absolutely...

were u trying to saying “k” very softly at the start like it no exist but u can still hear it but very silent, when u doing that is easier and no one will notice and they will still understand what u ...

Bro try reading this book Beyond Stammering by Dave McGuire. Been practicing the exercises given in the book for a month and my fluency has gradually improved....

Yes, I’ve experienced that too. But if you tend to stutter on 3 words in an 8-word sentence, you’ll end up pausing and inhaling quite often — doesn’t that make the speech sound a bit unnatural? Has th...