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Hi! I went back to speech therapy when I was a young teenager and it definitely helped me. Also making sure on getting plenty of sleep is very important in my opinion. I don’t know much about meditati...

See my other comment in this post. I have a link to a older post in which I make about eight comments describing my speech therapy experience....

What was your program like in speech therapy ? I remember when i joined a local speech therapist in my teen years about 13-14. We had to read aloud from a storybook and there were these breathing exer...

My experience has been different from most comments here. Maybe just bad therapist? I have a v severe stutter. I first went to a therapist when I was 11 and it worked wonders. I was almost completely...

Therapy has had a greater impact as an adult vs as a child I actually listened and learned things as a young adult. I gained a deeper understanding...

You've put is so well. Support group should be like a hangout for us to come together and share how life's been rather than it being like a speech therapy or a counseling session....

Stuttering therapy as an adult: much effect?

Stuttering therapy as an adult: much effect? Has anyone had good effect from going to speech therapy as an adult? I'm 24 yo, and although I don't stutter a lot anymore, I feel that with a little profe...

Going to support groups is a great recommendation for those who are willing to accept stuttering and learn to live with it for the rest of their life. You’re right, it is nice to talk to stutterers wh...

This is a tough one. Maybe just encourage him to speak slower and softer and don’t talk about stuttering with him, The more you build a mental framework around it the more it will get imbedded & h...

Some people believe that the impact of speech therapy is minimal. I actually think it made me more self-conscious of my issues....

Speech therapy graduate student with an acquired stutter here. This sub usually has lots of great advice for dealing with the emotional side of stuttering. From a more clinical perspective though, acq...

Hey! It could be social anxiety. I have a stutter and social anxiety. My stutter can almost disappear for months at a time but I’m still nervous saying phrases to people and overthink what I’m about t...

My old speech therapist always used the analogy of treating our “muscles for talking” like actual muscles. If you don’t train them, they’re going to be weak. You always warm up and stretch before a wo...

It's all in our mind, what we think we become, right from my childhood I used to stutter and i gradually came to a point that this is who I am and there is nothing that I can do with this and this mad...

>Any activity that that we have to perform, the conditioned responses kicks in and the freezing or holding back ocurrs. Yes, any activity, situation, thought, feeling, sensation or experience, or ...

Used to be the same as you, but now I stutter with everyone. Stutter least with my speech therapist...

AtomR, My psychotherapist is a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. She knows all the therapeutic techniques but in my particular case, she chose the Psychodynamic method. I originally sought therapy for lif...

What is the name of the therapy? Well I ´ve experienced something similar. Just keep using the technik, try to improve and enjoy the fluent moments. ​ Try to be a friend with the new te...

I stuttered for 70 years and I can attest that stuttering was much worse than any side effect. I was given Abilify, an atypical antipsychotic. I also was undergoing psychotherapy. My stuttering total...

There is currently a larger study being conducted at NIH. The sample size is appropriate and the double-blind nature may give a definitive answer. Medication might not be the answer to all stuttering,...