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Speech therapy works in all kinds of ways, but stutterers will have to usually learn how to push past a block fluently. So yes, we are thinking about our speech while we speak, or at least when we rea...

As an slp you need to know how to imitate stuttering. What if your client doesn't understand what they're doing and to need to show them? What if you need to demonstrate different types of stuttering ...

This is kinda true? Not so much in the way you’re thinking about it, but a major goal of fluency therapy these days is to take away the self-stigma — to get us more comfortable with our own speech. Th...

I am currently doing speech therapy, and I’ve found it incredibly helpful, particularly group therapy. It not only works on fluency but also the emotional aspect if stuttering. From what you’ve said, ...

The best thing I did as an adult was go to Hollins Communication Research Institute. They run a 12 day intensive treatment course that focuses on retraining your muscles to function like a fluent spea...

All the advice given here is great and I don't really have much to add. I just wanted to say that it makes me really happy to see someone who obviously seems to care a great deal about helping kids wh...

Speach therapy can have a hige affect on peoples stutter, it hepled me get by farely well The only thing it couldnt help me with is blocking, which is my main issue rn...

I don't know any names of techniques but I've been in speech therapy my while life and elementary was so much fun just because i had that class make sure they feel comfortable sometimes you might need...

Lee is wonderful and totally gets it. You're lucky to have had her as a professor. Counseling is scary and yes you might make mistakes, but you will learn and get better. The main points I'd say are t...

He’s been in several of the episodes on The Stuttering Foundation podcasts I’ve listened to recently! StutterTalk is on my list as I’ve about exhausted the episodes by The Stuttering Foundation. I l...

I love that you mentioned the iceberg analogy! Did you think of that yourself or hear it from somewhere? It was mentioned in the podcast I finished yesterday. This is great advice, thank you! I thin...

Firstly, Hi thanks for posting. You already sound like you'd make a good slp. Secondly, considering most SLP programs don't spend much time on stuttering, I'd say it's totally normal to feel terrified...

I’m a new Speech Therapist and I need your advice

I’m a new Speech Therapist and I need your advice Hi! I’m a first year SLP in the US school system. I work in both public and private schools. I recently screened a few students that stutter. Full dis...

For the first time in years, i’m not afraid to talk.

For the first time in years, i’m not afraid to talk. Hi there! Long time lurker, first time poster. My stuttering problem started several years ago, when things went from bad to worse speech-wise. W...

Well for me personally not so much. It gave me a tool to use but speech therapy didn’t help me too much. But they had some people who had been through the program come back and talk to us. They seemed...

I am not Canadian, but I went to this place in Edmonton, Alberta that is called Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research (ISTAR). I am not sure how far Toronto is for you, but you can check it ...

Yea I totally disagree with you. I am a mild stutterer and have found the book very helpful you just have to practice what he says and re read chapters over and over until it is stuck in your head for...

Lovett's book may not be structured in an ideal way, but if you see it as a reference book for a toolbox of techniques that in some combination have worked very well for many others, it may be much mo...

Ok, I was wrong, I read that part again and he definitely used it, but he recommends Powers' book to read about the subject (Lee's book is already 600 pages long and he's not an expert to go into the ...

Wait really? I thought he said he uses self hypnosis but he can’t explain the methods of Melvin powers book cause that would kinda be like...copyright infringement ig? He did give a brief of it thoug...