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commentr/StutterOct 26, 2023
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I'd imagine desensitizing yourself to talking to people would help. I remember being like that when younger, my speech therapist made me converse with strangers, I eventually did get good at it. My st...

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commentr/StutterOct 26, 2023
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I honestly think if I had access to a gun in my teen years, I would have killed myself. So I get it. What helped me was speech therapy and regular therapy. In my 20s I found the American stuttering in...

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postr/StutterOct 24, 2023
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the speech therapy journey, the beginning and the end

the speech therapy journey, the beginning and the end 30 Mars 2020 I started with the first speech therapist for 9 months and I have been to a psychologist and a psychotherapist but nothing and I did ...

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commentr/StutterOct 23, 2023
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I had one. The company is called Speech Easy. As the other commenter said, it helps temporarily but then the effect wears off and you are better off sticking with speech therapy which would be less ex...

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commentr/StutterOct 23, 2023
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Therapist are good whether to treat stutter or not. They give you the opportunity to speak your emotions on a safety enviroment. In that subject she is a good choice. But don´t rely exclusively on he...

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postr/StutterOct 23, 2023
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I don’t know if I need a therapist now

I don’t know if I need a therapist now My therapist takes August off, and starts sessions in September. But this year, I decided not to continue, telling her “I don’t want to waste your time cause I d...

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commentr/StutterOct 22, 2023
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Went to speech therapy for 3 months my speaking was so much better. But i relapsed soon enough and am way worse. Currently in speech therapy again after 4 years...

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commentr/StutterOct 22, 2023
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I would think it could help but I never had therapy as a child, mine is mild by my own definition. People who know me know I stutter but if you weren’t familiar with me you might not tell me...

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commentr/StutterOct 22, 2023
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It can! But it isn't always effective. I've had a stutter my whole life & had gone through intense speech therapy as a child - it worked pretty well for me, reducing how often I stutter (to the po...

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commentr/StutterOct 22, 2023
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I guess it helped some when I was in elementary, but I still stutter (blocks and repeating). As an adult I have only did therapy once about 15 years ago, but I stopped when I realized it was basicall...

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commentr/StutterOct 21, 2023
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Ah okay sorry to hear that. Sounds like it wasn't the best fit. Sometimes avoidance reduction approaches to therapy can be more successful than "strategies". Look up Open Stutter on YouTube. There are...

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commentr/StutterOct 21, 2023
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I was in speech therapy until high school, and that may have worked. I was in it for about 2 months 2 years ago, and long story short, the therpaist said that we exhausted all the strategies (most lik...

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commentr/StutterOct 21, 2023
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I think there's a mistake in OP's presumption that older professionals don't keep up with developments in their fields. Or that newer developments would deprecate methods or techniques that have had ...

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postr/StutterOct 21, 2023
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which do you think are the differences between speech therapists aged 45+ and these others who are 25+

which do you think are the differences between speech therapists aged 45+ and these others who are 25+ I mean, are there any differences from the others in terms of speech therapists, because those wh...

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commentr/StutterOct 20, 2023
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I'm not sure what your situation is, but I did an intensive 2 week course at the American Institute of Stuttering in NYC and it really helped me break down some of those initial hurdles. You might wan...

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postr/StutterOct 20, 2023
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Stutterers from Toronto Canada

Stutterers from Toronto Canada Hey y’all, I’m looking to get in touch with anyone from Toronto that has gone to speech therapy. I am looking to go to speech thwart but unsure of where to go. Hoping yo...

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commentr/StutterOct 20, 2023
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That's why I'm not for speech therapist, at least here in Pakistan. In all this time with them, I never learnt a thing about speech blocks. Kindly check out the stuff I have shared on my profile and f...

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commentr/StutterOct 20, 2023
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>*"When we do tasks, the techniques work, but when we talk freely, they don't, it's like being in a completely different world, it’s really strange how can this happen?, I tried to find the cause a...

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postr/StutterOct 20, 2023
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my 3-year journey in speech therapy

my 3-year journey in speech therapy guys, I started speech therapy when I was 18 years old and I was with the first speech therapist for 9 months but without any improvement, From there, I went to sev...

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commentr/StutterOct 20, 2023
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I’m going to therapy to improve my speech, when techniques doesn’t work during a convo I don’t have any specified feelings I’m just calm and i just move on to other words, is very strange i would say ...

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