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It’s really a matter of personal preference and how you operate. Some stutterers, like me, will benefit and flourish in speech therapy because they are making the conscious changes. Lots of kids do gr...

Completely agree! We know how to speak. Focusing on your speech makes it worse. I was so ashamed every time I was taken out of class to do speech therapy as a kid. So humiliating, as if stuttering isn...

I've thought about this, and given the psychological nature of it, for me the focus on it made it worse. I stuttered more after speech therapy than before. One of my kids had a hint of a stutter as a ...

Now… if you agree with that, and feel somewhat suicidal, I strongly suggest you do what I did. Realize that most speech therapists have *no clue how to help stutters*, and their advice can even make ...

She really was amazing, I sadly don’t have her as a therapist, only for my senior year of high school, I’ll never forget her teachings though...

Stuttering use to hold me back from being myself until I accepted my stutter and starting not giving a shit what people thought about me and stutter. Cause I’m a pretty animated goofy guy and I want t...

Current speech therapy practices for treating stuttering now focus on mindfulness, emotions, and taking that “path” toward the top of the mountain. Keep on mind, one person’s summit may be vastly dif...

(Stutterer studying speech and language therapy) This is because there’s no higher demand vs our capabilities when we’re on our own. When we’re around others there’s pressure to talk as well as peopl...

I don’t know your educational background in the field. Nor your background in the mental health field. These two factors are a beyond important when dealing with young PWS. Also,your life experiences ...

Of course! It's really cool what you're doing. All the speech pathologists when I was in school had zero experience with stuttering and in high school I was usually teaching the pathologist about it r...

I have! I’m in therapy right now; I haven’t talked to her much about my stutter and how it’s been affecting me in a while, so I’ll probably bring that up with her this week. It has been helping a bit,...

Female here. Met a couple more because my speech therapist back then had group sessions, and she strongly suggested i attended....

Yeah, I have and I've said it on this subreddit many a time, but it didn't work as a child. However as a young adult, I think I was 20 or there abouts, I could fully understand both what the therapist...

I feel like trying psychotherapy would be more in line with your goals of changing your emotional response. At 36 it certainly is possible (I am 39), but as you know, you have decades of negative resp...

Anyone tried speech therapy?

Anyone tried speech therapy? I never tried to treat my stutter in any way. As an adult I don't stutter often and in some ways I feel fortunate about that, but in other ways it's a double-edged sword. ...

I personally believe speech therapy and medication just mask the root cause. They don’t solve it. But it’s important to mention that for extreme cases, an alternated speech might be help to get starte...

Speech therapy worked for me. Not in the sense that what I learned during the sessions fixed my stutter 100% (though I did learn some great tips) but more in the sense that I took action on my own tow...

I returned to speech therapy. Same program and therapist that I had in my teens. Where I had limited success in my teens. The main difference was likely my maturity and effort. In my teens, as much ...

This is a reply I made on a similar post. It was for someone who went to an intensive program, but it's essentially the same techniques. Your experience after the intensive speech therapy program is...

It's interesting to hear that you've noticed a correlation between your breathing exercises and improved fluency in speech. The diaphragm plays a critical role in breathing and speech, as you mentione...