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commentr/StutterJul 24, 2023
1 points

You're welcome. Your SLP should provide you will all of the resources and direction. I'd go in with an open mind. No idea what your SLP will propose. Don't hesitate to ask questions though....

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commentr/StutterJul 20, 2023
3 points

What really helped me was going through speech therapy. But my speech therapy was geared towards being OK with my stutter. Which is a pretty recent thing in speech therapy from what I understand....

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commentr/StutterJul 18, 2023
1 points

Growing up I had a quite severe stammer. I went to a speech therapist for three years and after she found something that worked and also just with time my stammering disappeared completely. Three year...

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commentr/StutterJul 17, 2023
1 points

> to someone who understood where I was coming from. How would they know where you are coming from? The only people who understand stutterers are other stutterers. Most therapists are just paid to...

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commentr/StutterJul 17, 2023
1 points

Completely anecdotal. Works for some people, doesn’t for others. Same with devices like the speech easy or tricks like soft starts. It’s a huge bummer that people try to pass of techniques and stuff l...

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commentr/StutterJul 17, 2023
3 points

It’s giving me an error message when I try to message you, I wonder why. I am genuinely interested in your tips and am glad that you’ve had much success with what we’ve been speaking about...

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commentr/StutterJul 17, 2023
3 points

chitowinkid.., I was experiencing terrible pain, anxiety, and depression. The university where I receive care for the disabling daily migraine had a professor who was also a therapeutic hypnotherapist...

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commentr/StutterJul 17, 2023
3 points

It might be like mine was. Do you have the ability to get psychological support? It sounds like when you dissociate you revert to fluent. I used to think that if I only forgot that I stuttered, I woul...

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commentr/StutterJul 17, 2023
3 points

I believe my stutter is emotionally caused because when I dissociate or have an episode where I break from reality my speech is perfect, it’s only when I am here and conscious of everything that I stu...

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commentr/StutterJul 17, 2023
3 points

1. First mouth and tongue muscke exercises, then focusing on extending the first vowel of each word, doing that with all the vowel combinations in random vowel and consonant combinations such as "ABA"...

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commentr/StutterJul 17, 2023
4 points

Yes. I also did one therapy few years ago and for me and many participants it went like this: Few months or years after the therapy NO stuttering at all. I was with virtually no stuttering for 2 year...

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commentr/StutterJul 17, 2023
5 points

Im free of my stutter by almost 90 percent . Simply because im not bothered by it anymore , the moment i didnt became insecure about it it went away by 90 percent , i still stutter sometimes and i thi...

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postr/StutterJul 17, 2023
15 points

It was "gone". Anyone experienced the same?

It was "gone". Anyone experienced the same? I'm not familiar with the different techniques for stuttering and I'm new at sharing experiences with others, but I went through a speech therapy that went ...

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commentr/StutterJul 17, 2023
3 points

I had an abusive childhood but never realized the lifelong implications related to my stuttering. At the age of 70, through psychotherapy, I just stopped stuttering. Evidently, the latent anger and re...

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commentr/StutterJul 15, 2023
3 points

I have also attended the Maguire programme. It did help and had a great community of others, the people I met in that course changed my life!...

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commentr/StutterJul 15, 2023
2 points

The only speech therapist I've had focused on a lot of strategies for releasing tension in your mouth and vocal folds, which included some of the things you mentioned, like diaphragmatic breathing. We...

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commentr/StutterJul 14, 2023
3 points

If you master meditative/calming techniques that work in seconds, perhaps. But, paradoxically, if you are anxious for it to work, it won’t work! I believe it’s the same with speech therapy techniques....

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commentr/StutterJul 14, 2023
1 points

I’ve not had lasting success from HCRI in terms of not stuttering at all anymore, but I like the tools they gave me. When I practice my gentle onset rigorously for several hours I can be fluent for a ...

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commentr/StutterJul 14, 2023
3 points

I don't have empirical evidence for you. Just anecdotal (not nonsense.) Severe stutterer until my mid 20s. Never a fluent sentence. Blocks that would last until I ran out of breath. Cluttered speech...

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commentr/StutterJul 14, 2023
2 points

Honestly I think they’re throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks. Stuttering doesn’t really have a known cause. I did speech therapy in early elementary school. I don’t remember much o...

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