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Many speech therapists will have you practice breathing from your diaphragm. While it’s not a sure-fire cure, breathing well relaxes your muscles and allows you to ease into your words rather than for...

I've recently been thinking that my stutter is actually heavily connected to my breathing, but I've just never fully realized it. I've only recently had the conscious idea to take a deep breath whenev...

I do that every time I warm up before singing. I make long vowel sounds loud while matching them with the note I'm playing on the guitar. The sounds come from the diaphragm and involves opening your t...

The idea behind speaking from the diaphragm is to ease your vocal folds into speech, almost like you're tricking them so they don't tense up and block and make the stutter harder. It also helps you ha...

Alright here we go: 1: Learn about and how to control your parasympathetic nervous system. There are tons of weird alternative medicine ways that claim to do it but there are also science backed ways...

I have the same thing as you, and I think most people refer to it as a stammer. Like you as well, I usually have trouble with words that start with vowels (especially wonderful that both my first and ...

Start small, with small phrases as answers. When someone asks you a question first answer the question in your head. Then take a deep breath in, and when you take the deep breath out, breath out the...

Appreciate the things you do have in life. Practice daily meditation and gratitude (what are you grateful for?) Forgive yourself. Love yourself. As Kendrick Lamar said "It was always me vs the world,...

Take ownership of your life. Believe that you have it in you to turn things around. We all do. Breathe well and deeply. Speak slow and in a controlled manner. Drugs don’t solve anything as far as I k...

Learn to breath and take life one step at a time my man. Drugs aren't gonna solve your problems, not how it works. Thing's will works out, trust yourself....

1. Know that you have prepared well 2. Rest well tonight 3. Take a few minutes to meditate / say positive affirmations before the speech 4. Stand straight with your shoulders thrown back aka power pos...

I wish you the best of luck tomorrow, you're going to crush it! What has worked for me in the passed is to memorize the speech / presentation. This way you know exactly what your going to say and ca...

Thank you. It’s great that breathing exercises worked so well for you. Working on them and willing to try anything else that’s out there....

I had an early SpeechEasy device (around 2006 I think), I’ve had speech therapy and tried apps for meditation and mindfulness. The best solution I can recommend is looking into breathing exercises (ta...

This happens to me as well. What I do is I take a deep breath or drink some water, then continue on with what I was saying. I also try to talk slower because I find that this relaxes my speech and mak...

Communication aid that never gets mentioned

Communication aid that never gets mentioned So, I keep going back and forth on bringing this up. I’ve never seen it even mentioned here in this sub and figured I’d throw it out there. DISCLAIMER — I...

These are techniques I've learned in speech therapy, I hope I explain them well enough. 1) Diaphragmatic breathing. Breathe in for 2 seconds, out for four. Make sure your stomach rises and falls, no...

Don’t be afraid to stutter! Best tip I can offer once you get over the fact that you stutter and it happens fluency really becomes second nature. Of course you’ll still stutter but going into a conver...

I’m a guy my man but it doesn’t matter why or how you were born that way it happened you can’t change it so it’s best to figure out how to live with it and idk if you do this but for me reading out lo...

Anyone else talk to themselves an extraordinary amount?

Anyone else talk to themselves an extraordinary amount? I'm a pretty reserved guy, don't talk too much mostly because of my stammer but when I get home the flood gates open and I just spew forth the m...