>And no adult ever cured their stutter.  Cured is a loaded word. I'll always be a stutterer. But I no longer stutter. Those of us with severe stutters have achieved fluency. I was a severe stutterer and got fluent in my mid-late 20s. What you describe as your speech therapy is what I have frequently observed in this sub. But that isn't the entirety of speech therapy. What I received for therapy wasn't 'tricks.' It wasn't combatting disfluency. It wasn't learning not to stutter. Or how to overcome blocks. I learned fluency. Separate from my disfluent speech. I literally had two different modes of speech during my therapy. My regular disfluent speech. That which I used in everyday life. Then my fluent speech. That which we were developing in therapy. That which I practiced in private. That which I didn't ever use in everyday life until it was fully developed. It was a progression. Layer after layer of fluent speech absent any disfluency. It wasn't until I perfected my fluency that I was permitted to start using it in everyday life. So that there was no doubt. No anxiety. We had every confidence as to my success. And we did so on a limited basis at first. We eased into it. There's different therapies out there. Not every program or therapist is the right fit for the person in question.