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commentr/StutterAug 27, 2022
7 points

Yeah it’s extremely expensive but I noticed she didn’t even touch on the fear behind the stuttering. It’s probably best to find someone else...

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commentr/StutterAug 27, 2022
2 points

The first session was 280 for an hour ! So I’m really wanting to know if it’s legit or should I find someone else. She’s pretty young so I assume she’s new to this....

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commentr/StutterAug 27, 2022
12 points

Speech language pathologist chiming in. Did she at any point ask you how your stutter is impacting your life? What did she say her experience is with supporting people who stutter? Just based on those...

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commentr/StutterAug 27, 2022
2 points

There is clearly a biological/genetic basis to stuttering. Stuttering is not caused by a virus, so a medical cure is not what you're really looking for. The motivation to change the way you speak an...

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commentr/StutterAug 27, 2022
1 points

Hey!! im sorry this is happening to you! I still have the stutter ever now and again, but it gets bad again when I’m stressed. In my experience, if you’re feeling so stressed or anxious that you start...

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commentr/StutterAug 27, 2022
0 points

So I would really recommend the Dave McGuire course. They have an inexpensive self help book on Amazon called “Beyond Stammering: The Mcguire Program for getting good at the Sport of Speaking.” You ca...

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commentr/StutterAug 27, 2022
2 points

The Mcguire Program. courses more regularly in UK and north america. there's some good youtube videos "school for stutterers". also check out Gareth Gates Mcguire. he is the guy who my.mum saw on TV....

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commentr/StutterAug 27, 2022
1 points

36. My 20s were hard. I was very hard on myself. Only thing that helped was going to speech therapy. https://www.stutteringtreatment.org/ Thats the program I did. I’ve seen a lot of people say the...

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commentr/StutterAug 26, 2022
2 points

Your experience with therapy is VERY common bc most SLPs just aren’t given training in treating dysfluency. There are ways to gain more fluency....

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commentr/StutterAug 24, 2022
2 points

Good question. I can't answer it though. It's one only you can answer. I failed to do the work at \~16, so therapy didn't help me at that age. I showed up to therapy weekly but didn't practice daily....

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commentr/StutterAug 23, 2022
1 points

Oof! I understand this. I knew that reading to others was always a consistent problem, so for my baseline, I would read. And each session I would read to her and we would work on strategies. As I po...

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commentr/StutterAug 22, 2022
1 points

I think that people that refer themselves for therapy make the most progress because they are motivated and want to change. Ask your therapist for homework/practice assignments to do between sessions ...

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commentr/StutterAug 22, 2022
2 points

Do whatever you can to find a good therapist and get them to take you on. If there's no good therapy in your country, you may have to look abroad. The only way I knew to solve it was with a therapist ...

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commentr/StutterAug 22, 2022
1 points

I didn't do therapy, but I hear people say you get out what you put in I wish you the best, buddy Give it your all...

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commentr/StutterAug 21, 2022
2 points

Wow your stutter sounds exactly like mine, my name is the only thing i can’t say🥲 But from my experience with speech therapy it didn’t help me at all because for some reason I wouldn’t stutter at all...

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commentr/StutterAug 21, 2022
1 points

That's what bad SLP who don't understand the issue of stuttering do. I personally hate CBT and find it useless for me. The last thing I need is **more** thinking...

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commentr/StutterAug 21, 2022
1 points

I think cognitive behavioral therapy would be more effective in that regard. Speech therapists are meant to help people mitigate their stuttering with techniques( e.g, prolongation, breathing exercise...

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commentr/StutterAug 20, 2022
2 points

I don't really have any specific recommendations. I have a feeling that tackling the issue of confidence is individual for each person. What helped me was doing gut healing via diet, a lot of juicing,...

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commentr/StutterAug 19, 2022
1 points

Well that is why I said this was just my case. If your neurological component is larger then I am awfully sorry this mental therapy can't work for you that much....

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commentr/StutterAug 19, 2022
6 points

I used to go to therapy years back. Maybe when I was 6 or 7 and I don't think it necessarily helped? It made me more aware that I was "different" in a way. And throughout school. I never had many frie...

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