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>no one realizes this is a diagnosable thing and she should be in therapy for it Depends on the therapy. Most of my experiences with therapy were a waste of time and even had a negative impact. Becau...

I've always felt the same way! But I went ahead, made the mistake, and even married a man with a stutter :( He was (and is) a great guy. It just couldn't work out; our marriage was doomed from the ver...

I saw a few therapists in my childhood and teens who didn’t do much at all - and then I found someone in my 20s who was life-changing. So few therapists are properly trained in treating stuttering....

That’s my experience too, however I ended up seeing a real psychotherapist and that did so much more for my speech than any speech therapist could have done....

I tried it once and had a very bad experience, my speech therapist was a stutterer themselves but had it far worse than I do and they basically yelled at me the whole time to just deal with it and suc...

Years of trauma which makes a person try to hide their stutter. Sure this is the way but it’s really difficult after you’ve experienced so much trauma. I’m 31 and didn’t really give come out my shell ...

I don't mean this to sound as harsh as it does, but you're making it harder than it needs to be, or you could make it easier by not trying to hide your stutter all the time. Of course the path and wor...

Always worth a shot! Personally I find it a red flag if the speech therapist only teaches you techniques and/or thinks techniques will solve your stutter. However techniques work for some people so mi...

I'm sorry, what you've shared sounds really hard. Not at all okay for your supervisor to use your stutter as a reason to keep you from participating as your classmates do. You're not alone, **at all,*...

True but a speech therapist shouldn't be unethical by pretending to know how to treat, knowing that there are more qualified people out there, while taking $$$$....

great post but I disagree about this lets all play circle time and pat on the back to bad speech or under qualified speech therapists. We can do respectfully and I agree thats the right approach, to b...

beware of any big box type of therapists that try to make money on camps, events.... often they have one person who specializes in stuttering but then will bait and switch with a subpar slp. I moved f...

I went to speech therapy in summer of 2022. I was let go only after a few weeks because they said I “didn’t need it” when I already explained to them that my speech is better around new people/strange...

Try to find a new speech therapist. Mine told me the unique voices, movements, and other things we try to reduce or eliminate the stutter are often more distracting and detrimental than the actual stu...

I recognized this and tried therapy but with my extreme severity, even the therapist felt uneasy and recommended a speech therapist to me instead. Writing to communicate always felt weird. Tried sever...

I was thinking this very same thing about myself. I have been in the past but the honest truth of it is that I had a bad experience of it and now I feel scared to go again and so I haven’t....

I’m a stuttering specialist SLP just fyi…. All the resources you find online are individual stories, experiences, or tricks that work for that person. If you and that person are in the same boat str...

My speech therapist was the first person that confronted my mother with the fact that she was basically bullying me, escalating to, exactly: scolding. Truly the first time i felt understood, as no-one...

I see too many college students going into speech therapy/SLP just because they just want to graduate. They have no compassion for kids that they will be working with. Nor know how it affects mental h...

speech therapists can keep you in therapy for months or years, and in the end, when it is not successful, they not give responsibility for this

speech therapists can keep you in therapy for months or years, and in the end, when it is not successful, they not give responsibility for this ...