Do you think that practicing both separately will help? If I were to constantly say 'bubble' normally over and over, I would barely improve because I simply cannot do it speaking normally like you say. The constant repetition of my stuttering won't help me actually learn the correct mouth movements therefore there will be no valuable muscle memory learned from this, but if I constantly mime the word (which I can do) over and over, the correct muscle memory may actually help (that's my theory anyway). Imagine if a body builder suddenly had a horrible car accident and they couldn't workout for months. They will most probably lose a lot of the muscle memory associated with weight lifting as well as muscle mass. Rather than just do nothing until they've fully recovered, if they started with VERY light weights (100 grams for example) whilst they're recovering, they could use them just to practice the correct form before they finally move on to the actual weights. This is my thinking with the miming and larynx control; build up the correct form individually and start to slowly merge them together to help speak normally, something you can't do if you just tackle it head-on as you're literally unable to learn the correct movements because your stutter holds you back from doing so, but you CAN do it if you mime. Edit: Yes, to your question, but I've never been to see a speech therapist mainly due to nerves.