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Lots of excellent advice in this thread so far. I'd just add that it might help to not read from a script. Just think about the message you are trying to convey, not a word for word script you've mem...

I had to present to 30 strangers the other day and I was stressed about it. I practiced my presentation about 15 times.  In the end it went fine. I said I had a stutter at the beginning, I took a fe...

I used to try to prepare the entire script of what I would say, but that doesn’t work well (or it needs 10x more practice than normal) What works for me is to have the outline of what I want to say. ...

I believe it can be healed/managed/cured/reduced whichever word seems fit. Listen a lot of children stutter when there are young and statistics show 80% of them grow out of it. This happened to my bro...

Good on you! I agree 100%. Acceptance is the first step, followed by action to make your life easier living with an incurable (for now) impediment. Start learning and practicing fluency shaping techn...

I’m sorry you’re feeling this way, and I totally get it! We’ve all been in this situation at some point in our stuttering journey. It can be overwhelmingly frustrating. At the end of the day, you ar...

Correct. You can download a metronome app and set the BPM to 80 or 100, and read aloud each word in unison with the tick. It’ll be weird initially but keep at it. As you get better, gradually pick up ...

I did start reading out loud again yesterday as I have found that does help. Admittedly, I’m not the best with continuous practice and it’s something I need to do a better job at. I’ve always just l...

It sounds to me like you’ve benefited from speech therapy a number of times in the past. Have you practiced the techniques you’ve learnt in the past whilst alone, reading aloud at slower rates, in uni...

The only techniques that work for me are- Speaking slowly. Speak with even emphasis on all syllables and don't over emphasise on any syllable. Speech is basically sound+airflow. You might have noticed...

Resources for an adult with fluency issues

Resources for an adult with fluency issues Hi everyone. I’m looking for some resources to help with my fluency issues as an adult. I’ve had fluency and stuttering issues since I was child. I went t...

Thanks for the honest advice and for sharing your experience. I totally agree that working on speech itself—whether through therapy or training—is vital. In my view, using tools like text or TTS isn'...

You'd rather speak and get rid of that fear. I use to write on paper in school whenever I found it hard to speak and it didn't do me any good for the future. I'm currently 27 and still stutter severe....

I asked AI to generate for me a tongue twisting story, that also has a lot of words with difficult letters (M,O,U,D...) And I'd have a 100 BPM metronome playing, for longer words, I cut it to one syll...

First of all, thank you very much for this post, and hopefully, you feel much better in the coming days. I, too, feel like stuttering relates closely to rhythm and breathwork. Can you please elaborate...

Like other said, this is too early to tell if his stutter will be long lasting. But assuming it is, there's not much you can do. As we all know, there's no magic drug or therapy. Just practice slowly ...

Disclose you’re a stutterer but it does not affect your abilities on the job. Definitely try to get good sleep the night before! Slow down your rate of speech when answering. Don’t rush into it. If ...

I sometimes call the ChatGPT number and talk to it. I also will actively talk to Siri instead of manually doing it. So “Siri call x” “Siri play x song” I also used to answer random spam calls to get t...

Free Stuttering Evaluation

Free Stuttering Evaluation Hello everyone. Long term lurker, first time poster. Long story short I stutter mildly to moderately for most of my life. I can't afford any speech therapy since I don't hav...

It seems like you adopted the neuroscience to stop stuttering which is built around rewiring and training your brain. Your right reading and talking slowly helps immensely. I always felt like I too wa...