This is my attempt to provide ideas on stuttering for your research (thesis): According to [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/14xt1ft/tips_to_improve_stuttering_from_the_research/) research study, future researchers could investigate: * Future studies should research customized interventions designed specifically for the context of stuttering that incorporate (1) cultivations of mindfulness, (2) decentering, and (3) self-compassion * Future studies should examine the effects of cultivating self-compassion through interventions in people who stutter * Future studies should focus on the listener’s experience of stuttering – cultivating mindfulness skills within parents of children who stutter, or therapists, might decrease identification with the child’s difficulty and reactions to stuttering, and thus affect communication patterns According to [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/13ceqpk/tips_to_improve_stuttering_interventions_for/) and [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/1372xp9/tips_to_improve_stuttering_anticipation_is/) research study, future researchers could investigate: * how anticipation anxiety (such as stuttering anticipation or anticipation of negative reactions) may lead to (1) avoiding focusing on prosody/instructing motor execution (to maintain the forward flow of speech), or (2) or replace tension \[secondaries\] or relying on sensory feedback \[feedback control\] to replace focusing on prosody/instructing speech initiation * future research could make SLPs more aware of other types of blocks, and change their perspective on justifying the stutter program or speech programming of the speech plan - and how desensitization can be used to not justify this impaired program instead According to [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/14q95kz/do_you_agree_that_nonstutterers_and_people_who/) research model, future researchers could investigate: * natural strategies that non-stutterers already apply in order to (1) unlearn avoiding a step in the non-stutterer strategy, or (2) unlearn replacing steps of the non-stutterer strategy with maladaptive behaviors According to [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/12fl53g/tips_to_improve_stuttering_exactly_what_fear_is/) research, future researchers could investigate: * to what extent '*adopting a helplessness mindset/attitude*' (or fear of fluency) attributes to raising the motor execution threshold too high - in comparison to fear of stuttering * to what extent 'unbearable arousal' from a helplessness attitude (or fear of fluency/stuttering) affects the unimpaired "internal" [motor timing cue](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/14wwyid/tips_to_improve_stuttering_from_the_research/) * to what extent integrating stuttering in one's self-concept results in adopting a helplessness mindset, *such as giving up (passivity, etc) to focus on prosody or instructing motor movements to maintain the forward flow of speech* * to what extent [overreliance on feedback](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/129z9q3/tips_to_improve_stuttering_do_we_notice_too_many/) leads to raising the execution threshold too high * how relying on (SLP) techniques may decrease self-efficacy in our ability to focus on prosody or instruct execution of speech movements * how PWS are currently applying hyperactivation or overactivation interventions that are specifically attempting to reinforce the forward flow of speech (that negatively impacts the motor timing cue) * how all the above could lead to negating [motor learning](https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/125332/3/H%EF%BF%BDbler_Fiona_202211_PhD_thesis.pdf) * how all the above could lead to a [disruption of motor commands](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/14il794/tips_to_improve_stuttering_from_the_new_research/). The positive result could then be: (1) feed-forward motor control processes are not being compensated anymore by overreliance on feedback systems, (2) this could solve the problem of not initiating motor execution, (3) this could solve the problem of the right hemisphere overactivation as an attempt to compensate for the structural and functional deficits in the left premotor and primary motor speech areas, (4) this could improve speech motor programming and execution deficit, and it could lead to unlearning 'applying' hyperactivation or overactivation of the speech production system, or (5) this could make a stop to reinforcing the habitual attitude of atypical sensorimotor aspects of stuttering using an inefficient and unstable speech production system Direct any questions about my ideas to me in a reply.