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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
3 points

For me, I don't think 100% stuttering remission is possible, however you can get to a stage where from a psychological aspect it doesn't affect you. I think stuttering is quite a complex disorder, how...

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Voluntary Stuttering & ExposureHelplessness & AgencyFluency Techniques+1 more
commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
1 points

It’s like the same thing as singing or (for me anyway) presenting. Talking with a different enunciation and cadence dodges the stutter...

Causes & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
1 points

Growing up, I was taught to be ashamed. I was taught that fluency equaled happiness and acceptance. So I chased fluency into my 30s. Precision Fluency Shaping gave me good fluency for a year, and I wa...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
1 points

Yes! Let me if you need any assistance, or if you could use help you host the conference calls. (I often run meetings in the workplace, and use my "presentation voice" to speak more clearly.) Anothe...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
1 points

Changes in prosody often improve fluency. Lots of ways to change prosody that include accents, singing, rhythm, whispering, prolonging vowels, inflection, and more....

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
2 points

Talk as much as possible. Even to yourself or reading out loud. Talk often and practice your speech and words. Best way is in front of people but read books out loud or speak out loud as often as poss...

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Fluency TechniquesExperiential Association
commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
1 points

As of right now there is no solution. It's not my thesis. It's general scientific consciousness that it's all the brain. Every person's stutter is different as well. I think desensitization, gen...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
3 points

Sure thing. I've stuttered since I could start talking. Also a former drug addict and then became a professional wrestler and it forced me to find way around my stutter while doing promos....

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Personal StoriesRoles & PerformanceFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
5 points

I have stuttered since I could speak I went to speech therapy until like 2nd Grade I said I was sick of leaving class.. I Love To Speak to groups. I’m a Grateful Recovering Drug addict and Epileptic a...

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commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
1 points

When I call the bank or whatever I would use my deep phone voice and it does help me stutter less and sound professional I try to use that deep voice in real life conversations at times, it sounds lik...

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Fluency TechniquesEmployment & Career
commentr/StutterJan 19, 2025
1 points

Don’t think as crazy about it!! Try not to have that anxiety and fear of letters, consonants, and words.. For real my speech can be terrible I was born with a block and a stutter.. I was diagnosed epi...

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Identity & Self-PerceptionStress & Fight/FlightFeared Words & Names+3 more
commentr/StutterJan 19, 2025
1 points

My advice would be to figure out what your articulators do when they make a K sound and practice it on its own for a bit. It may seem silly but blocking is not a core stuttering behavior. If you can't...

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Fluency TechniquesBlocks & StoppagesPhysical Tension
commentr/StutterJan 19, 2025
1 points

With consonants, the speech therapy strategy is "light touches." With a letter like B or M, you just barely touch your lips together, just enough to produce the sound. With K, it's a similar concept. ...

Coping & AdvocacySpeech & Stuttering
Fluency TechniquesPhysical Tension
commentr/StutterJan 19, 2025
1 points

My advice is to work on saying and letting yourself stutter on the "E". If you feel that you block on the ask, I'd check if it's the K or the E that you're really afraid to stutter on. ...

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Fluency TechniquesAvoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterJan 19, 2025
1 points

Whispering. Interesting about whispering and deep voice. I haven’t thought of that. In my case I believe that it’s rate of speech and how deliberate I am. This is true about the phone for sure where ...

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Situational VariabilityFluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJan 19, 2025
1 points

I am currently using 109 BMP but I would recommend experimenting and trying until you find a comfortable pace that works for you...

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Fluency Techniques
commentr/StutterJan 19, 2025
1 points

What I do is I only turn on my metronome in speaking situations, I speak normally then everytime I feel I am about to block, I immediately shift my thinking to feel the vibration on my wrist and time ...

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commentr/StutterJan 18, 2025
1 points

Something like the metronome thing is how I helped mine well towards playing trumpet. My stutter started feeding into my trumpet playing where I couldn’t produce syllables tktk (multiple tonguing for ...

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commentr/StutterJan 18, 2025
1 points

OK cool. Don't be concerned. Puberty late onset things are common. Especially in the mouth area. A feeling of your jaw locking is a very common one, but that's bone growth not in synch. Let me give...

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Onset & Life-Stage ChangesFluency TechniquesMindfulness & Breathing+2 more
commentr/StutterJan 18, 2025
1 points

https://www.starfishproject.co.uk/ You should give the starfish project a try. It’s a 3 residential course that runs at a hotel in eat Sussex. You’re taught to speak using a technique called costal b...

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Fluency TechniquesMindfulness & Breathing