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Hi, I am also looking for someone to practice my speech with at least 4 times a week. If you want, we could do some zoom chats to practice and try and improve our fluency. You could DM me, if you woul...

I agree with this. Speech therapy is only really there to give you tools(strategies and techniques) to improve your speech but other than that it doesn't really do much especially if your not seeing s...

Fluency cant be learned. Look at the studies on success of adult speech therapy. There is a moderate increase of fluency after doing it, however studies show that increase drops down over the course o...

Did you try traditional speech therapy? Currently I Have started Mcguire method(by reading his book), I have noticed improvement but its only been couple of week of practicing his method, i had tried...

Yes as said in the research paper, stuttering can cause something called "small t" traumas through bullying, lower self esteem etc and EMDR helps with trauma including "small t" traumas that accumulat...

Personally I went through speech therapy for a year and it significantly changed my stuttering from all the time to only when reading or mad/sad/excited or just on harder words...

Personally found EMDR to help in relation to traumatic or activating speaking situations really effectively. There’s a situation I would continuously struggle with, especially when it came to blocks, ...

We’ve only had one session so far, we focused on getting to know each other and talking about what stuttering is. He had a previous SLP who, while she was fine, immediately started on turtle talk and ...

Strategies by and large don't work long term. Working with an SLP so that you don't hate your stutter is more helpful. Many of us don't hate our stutters anymore and it makes life easier and better. ...

Hard to get used to it (venting)

Hard to get used to it (venting) The speech therapist gave me some exercises including a reading exercise. I have to read slowly while kind of singing in a certain way and it’s hard. I can’t get used ...

Short answer- yes. Im a person who stutters and have been studying the emotional/psychological aspects of stuttering since 2006. I’m also a psychotherapist. For many people stuttering is heavily roote...

I downloaded Reddit solely to reply to this- I’m in my late 30s, a person who stutters, and am a psychotherapist. You can 100% do this AND chances are by over killing that fear because you’re having t...

Support/meet up groups: likes/dislikes?

Support/meet up groups: likes/dislikes? Hello! I’m a speech therapist and am looking into ways to support adults who stutter. Many people seem to express positive experiences with support groups / mee...

We've had all kinds, I think starting in first grade they really emphasized the "strategies" and later on they moved on to "acceptance." My son seems to have some secondary characteristics (tongue t...

So are you not a stutterer? I did everything in the book, speech easy to therapy to hypnosis and more. When I overcame my stutter, now successfully working in a communications-heavy job in my 30s, it ...

You can give whatever advice you want. Speech therapy held me back because it reinforced the idea I had a problem to fix. It was accepting my stutter and moving on that freed me....

If you went to an adult stuttering camp not focused about speech therapy what would you want to do?

If you went to an adult stuttering camp not focused about speech therapy what would you want to do? I stutter myself and I’m helping in setting up an adult stuttering camp and we are trying to think o...

Ya I’ve spent most of childhood & adult life with speech “therapist/ professionals” it definitely helped me, I will never say it’s a waste of time. But that’s all it is, Is just help/practice....

Does anyone else have the type of stutter that only appears when relaxed?

Does anyone else have the type of stutter that only appears when relaxed? My stutter is something I can help if I'm focused even when nervous But when I talk to friends and family in casual everyday...

Oh by the way I have a Sutter as well. Only I was able to get therapy many years ago which helped greatly. I still stutter, but not as much as I used to. I would say I'm about 95% fluent....