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I’m also in the US and from my understanding of the accreditation requirements a half semester class in under grad doesn’t seem like it would met the ASHA requirements. Or maybe it’s more of a state b...

Often these courses are taught by SLPs with limited experience and understanding of the depths of complexities of stuttering. In the US, we get 1/2 semester at the undergraduate level of coursework in...

It’s part of the AHSA standards for a program to be certified to have a course in fluency. It’s a little general/vague with the frame work of needing “knowledge of the principles and methods of preven...

^this is true for a lot of older therapists (30-40+). If the speech person is younger they’ve probably had at least one course dedicated to fluency Unfortunately, a lot of old habits die hard in the...

The speech therapist has a lot of experience and I agree with him a lot and everything between us, but simply so far the techniques, the emotional advice and all have not helped me to be able to speak...

I go there 3 times i a week, techniques, how to talk to people, and emotional advice, but they simply haven't helped me so far, he tells me how to do it, but when I do it with him, they work up to a p...

What is this therapist's approach to working with stuttering? How is your stuttering impacting your life? How would you like your life to be different? What would you be doing more of if you didn't st...

I'm so sorry to hear that stuttering is getting in the way of your enjoyment of life. I stutter and I'm a speech-language pathologist. I would recommend finding an SLP who specializes in stuttering (o...

I also did the two weeks at Hollins. It didn't work for me either, but I went when I was 12, so I think I was too young to really take it seriously...

I’m 41, I had speech therapy as a kid and it pretty much went away. Didn’t really have issues through school. Started a job, and my manager had a bad stutter, and it brought mine back, and I tried rea...

Yes, multiple forms of therapy. Regular speech therapy, intensive 2 week Hollins stuttering therapy, psychologist, therapist, group therapy, self therapy, YouTube videos. I wish I outgrew my stutter...

I don’t remember stuttering until I was maybe later on in high school, like 10th grade, but I’ve had friends and family tell me I’ve been stuttering since I was little so I don’t know. I tried this on...

I did speech therapy for the first time as a kid. I don't remember much of it other than that I didn't like it (according to my parents). I tried speech therapy again in my 20s and saw someone on priv...

when i was 15 at 2019, i don't think the speech exercises help at all, but having somebody to talk without judgement for 1 hour is great...

Just wanted to share a good documentary about a friend of mine who has a stutter

Just wanted to share a good documentary about a friend of mine who has a stutter Hi guys, first time posing here but I just wanted to share a documentary about a friend of mine Adam who has a pretty s...

I started speech therapy at the age of 32. The first therapist I talked to had a philosophy based on stuttering acceptance. I knew I wanted to learn actual speech techniques so I switched to a new the...

From my experience I watched his vids religiously for a long time and it actually took a few months to sink in...I watched the same videos a few times. Spewing he’s not in practice anymore! If I wasn...

Have you tried therapy to address the believes that cause this reaction to your stuttering?...

It sounds like you have one of the quite rare speech therapists who is trained to address dysfluency. Many of us went to SLP's who had no training in helping our issue and may have made us worse. Yo...

Does anyone else who stutters experience tourettic OCD?

Does anyone else who stutters experience tourettic OCD? Hello. 31 f here. Have been a stutter most of my life. My disfluency was more noticeable when I was a kid. It sort of calmed down with the confi...