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I have tried the McGuire program. Didn’t really work for me. It’s really well structured, but it’s a bit to strict and easy to get lost in all the rules and techniques. I suggest to buy the book befo...

Stuttering while talking to myself

Stuttering while talking to myself I just don’t? Like I am a fluent speaker talking aloud to myself. I can say words that, around others, would cause a 5-10 second delay. It’s infuriating and intrigui...

I am 20 years old and have had a mild-severe stutter for as long as I can remember. I was put in speech therapy in 2nd grade, and stopped middle of 8th. Roughly 6 years of speech therapy. Here's the l...

Have you ever tried the intentional stuttering in public? I find it really limited in usefulness in private therapy sessions too...

I don't think so. We reevaluated and she urged me to intentionally stutter so we could practice the fluency techniques, but I didn't feel good doing that. I chalked it up to maybe my stutter is mostly...

Do You Stutter When Your Alone?

Do You Stutter When Your Alone? I find myself doing this often. I can think of something and mid-thought it would stop or keep repeating a part constantly. Talking to myself also has this occuring qui...

I went to speech therapy for a few months last year, and the therapist was nice and everything, but I rarely ever stuttered when talking to her for some reason. I stutter a lot in my everyday interact...

Regarding your questions I try to answer them. In my opinion: **Question 1: Did you go to speech therapy and when?** Yes, in primary school, high school and University ​ **Question 2: W...

I had repetition stutter since I was in the 2nd grade. I’m over here turning over an engine trying to get an r word out. It was something my parent thought I’d grow out of. (Rightfully so as I underst...

I went to two sessions 2012ish. I liked that she gave me ideas on how to cope with stuttering - adding breath, using easier sounds to get a difficult word started. I liked that she quantified my stutt...

I began going to speech therapy about a year ago. I definitely feel like I would have began to hate myself more and more because of my stutter if I didn’t end up going. My speech therapist was honestl...

Does anyone stutter when they are alone talking to themselves out loud?

Does anyone stutter when they are alone talking to themselves out loud? ...

SLP here - looking for opinions!

SLP here - looking for opinions! Hello! I am not someone who stutters myself but I would like some responses related to what your experiences were like in speech therapy. Did you go to speech therapy...

Trying to affect our natural speech works in the short term, but from my experience talking is so engrained socially and psychologically that it’s very difficult to permanently change the natural (or ...

Why would you purposely stutter? Don't you realise you are continuing building stuttering memories and compounding the problem. I had a severe stammer and now speak fluently thanks to the Lee Lovett...

Work in the area of mental health, supporting adults with schizophrenia living in the community…also work part time as a therapist Never would have thought that possible 20 years ago…very rewarding ...

Stuttering anticipation is formed becasue negative emotions are often accompanied by certain autonomic responses (such as an increased perspiration and heart rate), and our monitoring system records t...

Judging the competency of a doctor is always difficult. You're never going to be sure. First thing I'd say is "trust your gut." If you feel anything is off, listen to that feeling. Go in with an ope...

This is a difficult task if you don't already know about speech therapy and what you need. The therapy should make sense to you and you should be able to explain the rationale for what you're doing. I...

Oh you summed it up clearly. Basically what every therapy does never approaching the mental core. Hope therapies will change their mental treatment one day...