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I'm not sure what you mean by you "treated words as objects." Can you elaborate? I agree that speech is well coordinated muscle movements by the articulatory (lips, tongue, jaw etc), laryngeal and r...

This is why I think the Valsalva hypothesis is an insufficient explanation of stuttering (and a poor therapy approach) -- His assertion that consonants are not the source of disfluencies but vowels a...

I think it's because speech therapists are mainly focused on helping those with repetitions. I agree with you in that there are many who don't understand. I'm from the UK about 50 miles from London so...

yeah repeating words doesnt sound helpful. I would see someone else. One thing I realized going to all the NSA conferences and speaking with so many people, is there are a LOt fo speech therapists who...

Hi OP! SLP student here. I am super skeptical of this technique. It seems more grounded in the realm of voice disorders than stuttering. I can pretty safely say there is no evidence supporting thi...

Pretty much this. I'm an SLP specializing in stuttering and I pretty consistently see clients who have been through HCRI in the past, yet still decide they want more therapy a few/many years later. S...

I am in the exact situation as you. Although i've gotten speech therapy for 2 years, it didn't help me one bit. So now I have no idea what to do, other than just wait it out I guess. I'm 17 btw....

Mine comes and goes. I went to speech therapy as a kid and I never stuttered once in class. I just ended up not going any more because it seemed to have gone away. I never really learned how to get ri...

Speech therapists: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Speech therapists: the good, the bad, and the ugly I'm an SLP who is trying to learn more about fluency and I really enjoy this subreddit. It sounds like most people here have had at *least* one exper...