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You also mentioned: >*"Fluency doesn’t exert any muscular effort—it happens effortlessly, without any control. They compromise this coordination."* I fully agree with this. If someone uses a compens...
I like the theory, it provides interesting explanations for why we stutter more than the world population, but I wondered if this theory was verified, if it could not therefore offer a way to deconstr...
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NEED A PRACTICE PARTNER I've been taking my speech improvement really seriously recently and I've been making so much progress. If you asked me last year to go up and have a conversation with a girl i...
NEED A PRACTICE PARTNER
NEED A PRACTICE PARTNER I've been taking my speech improvement really seriously recently and I've been making so much progress. If you asked me last year to go up and have a conversation with a girl i...
For specific letters i struggle with i repeat them over and over then i search online for words beginning with them and say them all out loud. You can also find tongue twisters that have them....
It’s ok to feel what you’re feeling. I stutter during my presentations too. Something I began asking professors is if I could record my presentations instead of having to physically speak in front of ...
I didn't answer my phone for about 4 years. My solution was to force myself to use the phone. I called shops to ask when they would close. I would ask when my energy deal ended. I would say i had a st...
You have to find a speech therapist and start working on your fluency. The key to improving is to do something about your speech everyday. Good Luck!...
because the emotional aspect is the main trigger for stuttering to emerge in early childhood development. A child is born with a genetic predisposition for speech disintegration to occur more frequent...
That's awesome and really great of you to share. I spent a long time working on exercises from the 3rd edition which really helped me to eliminate most blocks from my speech, and also inspired me to c...
it requires a ton of work and time spent practicing, but over the last few years I've put together something like that and made it free - check it out: [https://easyonset.com/](https://easyonset.com/)...
Great post! Avoiding eye contact by looking down/away is one of those gross motor movements that reinforces the fear response in the moment. For many, after practicing alone and with safe people, s...
My stutter has been worse too. I think it’s due to my mental health also being worse and lack of sleep. I plan to make changes though gradually by using a technique from speech therapy more often. I t...
Anything by Claire Weekes and check out the book, "Feel the fear and do it anyway" and see if that may interest you....
I really think it’s hormones and the effects of the stressful teen years and all that encompasses is to blame. I witnessed it with my son. He’s done so well with speech therapy that he’s now graduatin...
You might want to have a look at [https://easyonset.com](https://easyonset.com), this is a 100% free tool for practicing speaking techniques that might really help. It was created by myself, and is ba...
I also say uhh and um a lot. What worked for me was taking a breath in and speaking on the exhale. And I try to talk slow as well or prolong a word so I don’t stutter on the next one. For example if I...
My sons stutter started at 4, got Speech therapy and it was great and we stopped after a few years. Came back in 6th. I think hormones stress of school or newness brought it back, we got speech agai...
Yeah no problem. Basically there are physical (costal breathing amongst a few others) and psychological techniques. These techniques only become solid through practice, so essentially it’s just contin...
The good thing about Hirevue is that they usually give you multiple takes to record. I’d use the first couple to practice and “workshop” your answer. I operate best with a framework and the one I use...