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HCRI pissed me the fuck off. I’m not rich. It cost thousands and they kept asking for $600 for their ancient fluency monitoring computer program. And then on the last 2 days they brought us to a mall ...

To me it's been nonsense. I did HCRI as well as other professionals, but none of it seemed to do anything for me in the long term. I moved to the acceptance phase long ago....

Speech therapy was valuable to me because I learned techniques like easy onset and light contact, which still work to get me out of bad blocks. Also, speech therapy is, well, therapeutic. It was nic...

Speech therapy is controversial considering it’s a field that’s still so not concrete. I have been to speech therapy and I honestly don’t know where I stand on it. I have mixed feelings, but it’s also...

I stutter and went to grad school, too. I think I got into geology partly because I thought I’d deal less with people and talking. Didn’t work out that way. I remember two guys in my office talking wh...

Is there any scientifically-backed evidence that speech therapy improves fluency or is it 100% anecdotal nonsense?

Is there any scientifically-backed evidence that speech therapy improves fluency or is it 100% anecdotal nonsense? 13+ years of various speech therapy. I paid thousands to go to HCRI in Virginia and i...

Types of speech therapy?

Types of speech therapy? I used to attend 45 minutes sessions X2 per week, with a speech therapist and we'd do diaphragmatic breathing and basically say out loud words so that my brain would register...

Hi, I’m seeing a mental health prescriber. I have a therapist and him. I’m so sorry it has affected you, it def has affected me my whole life. I don’t have a speech therapist anymore because it’s cons...

Really helpful answer for me, thank you In my city, the government speech therapist is not giving proper treatment, and the private ones charge big amounts, after some time they even ignore the clie...

Hey dude. I’ve been there. And I’m still at that point from time to time. I started seeing a therapist and it has helped tremendously. I’m almost 33 years old and recently I went to a Stuttering confe...

The very same thing happened to my son when he was that age. It was sudden and pretty upsetting to have a child that could talk suddenly not be able to get his words out. And you're right, it's hear...

It sounds like you are doing the right things, I just want to emphasize that you want to acknowledge their pain and sit them down and discuss the situation with them. They obviously have a very mature...

Sounds similar to me, speech therapy helped but wasnt a cure, I was a little younger (like 4), my parents said it pretty much appeared out of nowhere, am 28 now and pretty fluent although not complete...

I love reading your posts. Lately, I have been thinking about my stutter in computational terms. A computer has multiple threads, and each thread deals with a constant stream of data that needs to be...

Already went to a speech therapist when I was 10 they said there nothing they can do since I'm not technically a stutterer. I'm going to a regular therapist now tho....

Working with PWS actually helped quite a bit with my own fluency by forcing me to practice what I preach more. That and increased fluency with my “therapist voice” when talking with children, it would...

You will be able to specialize in disfluency in private practice or online. Specialists, and especially someone who stammers themself is going to be in demand in the private sector....

How do you find being an SLT as someone who stammers? Do you find you get discrimination by clients or clients carers bc of it?...

A lot of work is based on managing feelings about stuttering, anxiety etc (the iceberg), reducing avoidance, desensitization, educating parents/ teachers on how best to support a kid who stutters, re...

This is great! no one better than a PWS to work with PWS. I'm an SLT in Ireland (I don't have a stammer) so we are colleagues!...