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For me it certainly is, and it's something that I recognise but have always found hard to tackle 'in the moment'. What we need to remember is that we can control the pace of conversation if we want to...

No, it uses the intercostal muscles in your chest. The breath comes from further up, basically. If you empty your lungs completely, relax and then do a short, sharp breath in, that's basically it....

Is my stuttering curable?

Is my stuttering curable? So, I didn't had stuttering since birth. I started stuttering when I was around 20 years. I'm bit of an overthinker and I think some of those might have put some kind o...

I don't know if I would necessarily consider them exercises but yes it worked exclusively with the vocal and facial muscles. Roanoke, VA....

Novel tricks may work for a time. They wear away though. It is better to build up a wall of resilience and save those tricks for when it is absolutely necessary....

Give yourself permission to pause before speaking, so that you're controlling the pace of conversation. Don't be rushed by other people!...

I've seen and been told a couple of things that have helped me: \- That most 'fluent' people aren't effective communicators. They're also fully capable of using filler words, stopping in the middle ...

I'm in college. Basically you need to set aside around 40 minutes a day to go back through what you learned in the clinic. Two 20 minute sessions. May not seem like much but I'm pretty sure I have, li...

Hmmm. Interesting. When you say practicing- practicing what? I’m sure you have a job, and practicing there isn’t really practical, right?...

I love this mindset. Through university my stutter got significantly worse because I /wanted/ to speak fluently and confident, just to prove I could be an effective communicator. I could make all the ...

>Even with years of practice and breath techniques etc. It sounds like you were taught fluency shaping and found it as useless as I (and the majority of those who tried it) did. I clearly didnt com...

Speak slightly softer on a gentle outflow of air and begin to turn away from any thoughts, thinking or self talk about stuttering. Do this for a few years....

Its NOT a bad system, you just gotta have dedication to practice daily ! Its like a pro boxer that gotta train often or its like going to the gym often to get those gains. But you're right, people pre...

It's because you don't want to do it and you don't want to do it because it sucks. That's why the vast majority of people who try fluency shaping don't keep up with it, despite them really wanting to ...

I sometimes try to take a pause, finding a rhythmic cadence to your speaking will be really helpful. It sounds silly but sometimes listening to podcasts or other people who talk for a living have help...

tips on doing fluency techniques?

tips on doing fluency techniques? somehow I always forget to do it when im interacting with people. maybe because its so many and I it’s hard to focus on them while im talking. what do you guys do?...

I'll give you mine of you don't mind, keeping a rhythm like tapping your fingers, singing what you want to say, talking slowly does help, and CBD water soluble....

***I'm also not convinced that relying on such conditioned "value judgments" is an effective approach to achieving stuttering remission. Why not going down the rabbit hole towards executing speech mo...

***Fear-panic response – How do we minimize its impact or increase our tolerance to conditioned stimuli?*** I don’t know if we can increase tolerance directly, since the stimulus is there to precisel...

***"So, if this is true, then I think addressing stuttering towards automatic processes (i.e., stuttering remission) should involve two elements:"*** 1. ***Automatic processes – How do we kickstart t...