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I did it as part of a speech therapy course. I haven't kept it up. You ask if this reduces your stuttering, I doubt it would on its own. A lot of people that stutter have a fear of stuttering and ...

It doesn't make you accept the fact that you stutter. People incorrectly assume it's purpose. The point of it is to stutter when you don't have to to remind yourself that you're a person who stutters ...

"... and you would come across as an asshole to me..." That's fair. I've never reacted like this to someone I've met. I've only met a handful of people who stutter in my life. The reaction has always ...

Basically instead of fighting your fear (stuttering in this case) you should try to stutter as much as you can, even in an ironic way. This takes off the entire pressure. It's very effective in peop...

Has anyone tried the voluntary stuttering technique?

Has anyone tried the voluntary stuttering technique? This technique isn't widely spoken of, but it's claimed by some people and authors on the internet that it greatly alleviates your stutter by makin...

Ya don't be hard on yourself or feel pressure. Just relax maybe try and smile. Sometimes I Will try to improvise as much as possible. But I do not push thru blocks this reinforces those pathways....

It's more complicated these are to help. The idea is don't stutter don't push thru blocks. Stuttering reinforces the neural pathways that cause you to stutter. Not engaging them, makes them less promi...

1. Crutches (core techniques to escape blocks): Lovett outlines around 12 "crutches"—tools to use when you feel a block coming. Some key ones include: Crutch 1: Word Substitution – Quickly replace a ...

Just exposing myself to situations I would typically avoid has increased my fluency at least 30% the past few months! It’s a way to sorta desensitize you, you realize the situations are not as bad as ...

I still stutter but I've gotten way better. I read Lee G Lovetts book. How to stop stuttering and learn to love speaking. It may not help everyone but it helped me. One technique he uses that helped m...

Secondaries are a temporary distraction that work to trick you into initiate speech. Stuttering is an approach avoidance conflict so the secondary helps you initiate your sentence because it provided...

You don't do that on the job. That's too hard and the stakes are too high for you to be able to do it. You work on reducing secondaries in other situations. If you say you don't do them in other situa...

My secondary behaviors have increased like hell (Need advice for adult stuttering)

My secondary behaviors have increased like hell (Need advice for adult stuttering) Hi, I'm 28 years old and work as an English teacher at high school level in my country. My stutter is normally in the...

I stopped all techniques and the focus on fluency. We worked on reducing avoidances and slowly get myself to let myself stutter on sounds ...

The Only Solution

The Only Solution I’m writing this for myself as I do not want to forget it, but I really hope it can help someone out there. Avoidance, fear, trying desperately to blend in, saying the words in your ...

Oh if I’m picking up food and I’m having a REALLY bad day and it’s loud I literally type it out and show them. But I have a habit of either hitting my leg or moving my arms when I get a block so learn...

Acceptance--to stop psychological turmoil  Disclosure -to create a stutter friendly environment  Desensitization --you have to talk to people and learn to relax even as a person who stutters.   Ea...

So for some odd reason, thank you is soooo hard for me to say so I just do ASL for thank you. And sometimes the action helps me get it out more. I wanna learn ASL and see how much it’ll help with my b...

there is this one technique I have used - where I am speaking with other people, while in my mind I start visualizing that I'm alone. It seems to temporarily override the conditioning and result in fl...

I’m a speech therapist :). Essentially, you need to desensitize yourself to speaking with a stutter. Stuttering can be a self-defeating cycle in which the knowledge of stuttering or anticipation of st...