I went to HCRI when I was in 8th grade. My parents found the program and thought it would be worth a shot. From what I can tell, I am a similar "stutterer" to you. I can give presentations and not stutter once, but ask me to read specific word aloud in front of a group and it could very well be a disaster. Around friends and family I stutter occasionally, my girlfriend didn't realize I had a stutter until our 6th-7th date. I had almost the same experience at HCRI as gugiyav. I am almost 30 now so I have no idea how the program has changed since my time there almost 15 years ago. When I went, they literally gave you a stopwatch and made you prolong every syllable for 2 full seconds before moving to the next. The program was 3 weeks long and they would shorten the amount of time you needed to hold the syllable as the program went on. They also did various breathing techniques to help with fluency. At the end I had probably 25-30 cassette tapes I was told to practice daily. When I came home I was basically fluent but lost all inflection in my voice. My mind was constantly consumed with trying to remember to use the techniques and they often sounded very unnatural which made me almost as embarrassed as stuttering. I don't think that HCRI should accept kids as young as I was (13 or so). I couldn't commit to the daily practice and immediately went back to stuttering. I still have some guilt about my parents spending the thousands they did for the program. That being said everyone is different and you may have better luck. John Stossel is one of their success stories (news anchor).