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There’s actually research that shows that for many, once you address the secondary behaviors, the primary ones — the stuttering itself— tends to improve too. Basically, all of your secondary behaviors...

I've seen seven speech therapists, and they all taught me different strategies. Each of their effectiveness varied greatly. I would recommend asking for other strategies after telling her that these a...

You could perhaps ask her what are the purposes of her telling you to do these exercises, and of course, be very honest that you feel as though this isn't providing you major improvements with reducin...

The effectiveness of therapy depends a lot on the therapist. You should also make sure she isn't just calling herself a speech therapist. I had that issue when my parents took me somewhere when I was ...

> I have been stuttering since childhood. I went to speech therapy when i was thirteen. It helped me greatly and i was almost speaking normally, but after few months i relapsed because i did not fo...

Hi there! I am an SLP as well as a person who stutters with 10+ years working with children and adults who stutter. I have to agree with u/Jaeger__85. Recommending filler words and sounds are consi...

I found this incredibly helpful. Thank you! The way you speak is really impressive, taking your time with each sentence and pausing to think about your point when needed. I probably missed a bunch ...

Even among speech therapists, sooo many have zero real experience with stuttering, and finding therapists who have enough experience to be useful can be a challenge. Although Dean Williams wrote about...

My stutter was an interesting one because it was seasonal, and when it would come back (usually every 6 months) I would go to speech therapy. I did this until last year, when I started college and my ...

I never had speech therapy except as a child so I can’t comment on the value of therapy, but I’ve been able to make huge progress on my own. It’s a bit of trial and error but you figure out what works...

My first day of speech therapy the therapist told me that I wasn't there to become "fluent" and that that wasn't the end goal. The goal is to learn techniques that work for you to manage as best we ca...

I had therapy in elementary school, as well as high school, but I also had the luxury of being able to go and get therapy at the local university. This therapy was with people who were almost done w/ ...

That makes sense to not use the world tools. I didn't really think about it but I did not really like that word, so I have not used it. That is interesting to think of how a stutter changes with time....

My one suggestion is encouraging patients/clients to try the techniques more than once. If they don't like it one year, they might like it a year later as their stutter changes. As much as my stutter ...

I had a couple sessions of speech therapy as a 20-something and what really helped me were alternatives for sounds I would block on. Ex: I had difficulty with words starting with D so my therapist sug...

I am an elementary school Speech Therapist and I would like to know which techniques you have found helpful and which are not.

I am an elementary school Speech Therapist and I would like to know which techniques you have found helpful and which are not. I am a Speech Therapist and I work in an elementary school. I would like ...

Haha you are absolutely right they are not one to one. For me at least practice is critical and this is a simple way to help me practice more. In my speech therapy days of yor we would call places ...

This is a tough one, I will say. I think that my best advice is to give her the tools to be open about her stutter, and teach her to tell others about it so they can hope to be patient with her. At t...

I'll try and answer this from a childhood treatment perspective, if I'm understanding your question. I think you're asking about considering client perspectives in treatment outcomes. We have more tre...

Thanks for your question...And, right, there's a lot more that we need to understand about "what" works in therapy and "for whom" does it work. You highlighted exactly the reason that this is needed -...