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Self advocacy helped my son a lot. We were blessed with extremely good speech therapist in school who ingrained in my son’s brain that he is no different than others and to speak up for himself...

I am sorry that your SLP said that in a way that bothered you. Give her some grace for maybe being in a bad mood, but definitely track that relationship. There are so, so many SLPs out there that if y...

There is a lot of information provided by the US National Stuttering Association, Friends Who Stutter or UK's STAMMA, I'd recommend consulting those resources as they are created by experts for parent...

I get it. I can't help it though. I try to hide and put a pretty face, but the fact I don't have a strategy to help him makes me feeling like sh*t. We haven't got easy with this one and he had to st...

Make the speech therapist your best friend. This happened to my son several times but I reported this to the speech therapist who put those bullies in their place. Tell your son he is not alone and he...

I’m a stutterer, as my dad was. My daughter started stuttering at three. My two best bits of advice: 1. Look her in the eye and practice complete patience when she’s speaking. 2. Become her advocate. ...

Hola por aquí! Veo que es reciente tu caso y que estás en la misma situación que yo. Mi hija tiene 4 años y medio y acaban de diagnosticarla con disfluencia severa. En mi caso yo no tartamudeo ni mi m...

You're welcome! It's absolutely worth asking. Remember, the worst they can say is no. I've noticed that my son's teachers seem to be uncomfortable initiating helping him. I think they are unsure of if...

Oh, no...he can choose to do a presentation in front of the class if he wants to. Usually at the beginning of the year, he tries to push thru, and ends up struggling with the exact same things the O...

wait, is the 1 on 1 thing one of the alternative presentation options that your son can choose and chose? or was it like "student has stutter. do this. no other options." in some manual? I'd be conce...

I'm the mom of a high school-aged stutterer. Do you have accommodations through a special ed program? My son gets accommodations so that teachers can't force him to do presentations. Talk to your te...

I sent an email to my tutors explaining my situation and asking them to talk to the other teachers so that I’d have to speak as little as possible. but they denied it...

Thank you for your perspective, and for all of your advice!! You make excellent points -- especially about how kids will bully other kids for any reason (i.e., kids with a stutter aren't the only ones...

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. Also, thank you for the tip about the IEP!! I'm over here taking notes......

I was in public school K-9th grade and then finished up high school online. High school was so much less stressful for me because of it, but looking back I do kind of wish I stayed in public school. I...

I just wish someone would have given a shit and helped me build confidence rather than express their annoyance and be abusive… (Thanks Dad). My elementary school had a speech pathologist come in and...

Given your experiences growing up, do you wish you'd been homeschooled?

Given your experiences growing up, do you wish you'd been homeschooled? I don't stutter but I have two wonderful little kids who do -- a 6.5-year-old boy and a 4.5-year-old girl. My son has been stutt...

My daughter started stuttering around 2.5 yrs old. It was on and off. She would go 8 months without and it would start back up. So speech therapy was difficult that young. Drs said it was would probab...

This is really enlightening, thank you! I feel like I have a lot to bring up during her next IEP meeting in the hopes of reducing focus on meeting her fluency goals....

Also to add to this, we do everything we can to make sure our child knows that stuttering isn’t a big deal. It’s just a different way of talking. We never interrupt him. We never laugh at him, we give...