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Always on the J in Josh, but it's funny you bring up linking because I did do that today and the pressure was reduced a bit. Also when I put a sound in front of the J maybe thats what you mean by soft...
Do you stutter on your name when you say “Hi I’m Josh?” or do you only stutter on it when you say “Josh”? Starting with a soft / gentle onset with “Hi” then linking through to your name should help a...
Evaluation of Stuttering
Evaluation of Stuttering 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 have ...
Yes they are extremely annoying. Stop yourself. Do not try and push through. Breathe in, gently breathe out and use a soft onset into the word. Link your words together. Practice this whilst at a s...
Sorry you had to go through that. We have all been there, so you’re not alone. All you can do is stop when you feel the block coming on, deep breathe, and as your breathing out use a soft onset going...
You learn to just accept it, not love it. Once you accept it and not focus on it so much, you’ll self monitor much less, and in my personal experience, when I don’t self monitor my speech so much, I’m...
Cure just like the cures for loosing weight. For stuttering I feel it’s similar - you need practice, but not only mechanical pronunciation but also building confidence that you can complete any inter...
Do what you feels right for you. Whatever journey that you are on is just that, it's your specific journey. There is no cookie cutter approach. I've interviewed over 153 people who stutter on my ...
That's literally what I recently started doing, and it works. I still stutter, sometimes badly, but it gets easier the more I speak through it....
Personally I don’t think a stammer is something many people will have ‘learnt to love’ however I am personally on a journey to accepting that my stammer is something I will always have to some degree ...
No, if your stutter is neurological & an actual speech impediment there’s no cure. You’ll be wasting time & finding nothing but disappointment. But .. there is practice lots of practice to where it ...
I get it, but this is also something get better at progressively. Next time you will race your friends to joke about it. Younger people are perfect for practice because they have less expectations on ...
This is not an exercise nor a strategy. It is a demonstration to show that stuttering does not start in the mouth. The exercise is to listen to the breathing of someone who is sleeping. This is what p...
It is a great article about Valsalva response but it will not help someone who stutters. The breathing you do for speech is very similar to the breathing you do when you sleep. Your lungs need to pass...
I became fluent by researching as to why a fluent speaker doesn’t stutter. I discovered that I have a stuttering brain which is wired to stutter. I decided to rewire my brain to mimic a fluent brain. ...
As someome who provides intensive mental health support to families with ineffective communication dynamics, I’m always aware that people can define words differently. Two things can be true - tech...
stutterers should be allowed longer waiting, not less. but there used to be too many bad parents and bad teachers who would wait less for stutterers. impatient assholes. i think that's why some of us ...
25 and just developed a stutter overnight
25 and just developed a stutter overnight It came out of nowhere and I’m not sure how to fix this. I can whisper, sing, and do impressions of other people just fine (including myself), but when I’m be...
I am a trustee for a UK charity which teaches stammerers costal breathing, desensitisation techniques and tools to help manage blocks. We DON'T profess to "cure" stammering, but we can help to reduce ...
Reading fluently vs Speaking to a group of people
Reading fluently vs Speaking to a group of people Hi everyone. This is my first post in this community. I'm 34, male, born with stuttering. I've improved my stuttering a lot through reading practice....