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Thank you so much for the kind words and the tips. It still ebbs and flows of course but the tools she has now makes such a big difference. And yes, I have to stop doing everything for her in public....

I would never blame my daughter for stuttering. She’s my world! I will provide her all the opportunities SHE wants when it comes to her speech. She hated speech therapy, I mean hated it. I stopped ma...

We definitely flew there and only had a few days. There were never any promises or talk of she needs or could be fluent. This was solid speech therapy. I was just over the moon about the difference se...

Sorry, let me clarify…the “fluency” part was speaking about my daughter was me saying that…not the SLP. He never mentioned her being fluent. And yes, if she practices, it’s a huge difference in her s...

got damn, that's heavy. stuttering SLP in training here. i hated my stutter in high school, but now my friends and co-workers joke about my stutter and it's a world of difference. i saw multiple SLPs...

What do you care?? You are doing it for your self, so you could feel good about your self. Who ever makes fun of you because of that are the same people who will make fun of you for stuttering F. th...

I understand that feeling.With my child, reading only improved when support happened during reading. ReadabilityTutor helped because feedback was gentle and right away....

I think speech techniques and speech therapy general is more of a band-aid solution which helps some more than others, its unfortunate its the only treatment for stuttering. For me my speech therapy...

The worst part of speech therapy is that they give you tools that work at first. You get this hope you can defeat this curse. The problem with these tools is that they don't work forever and get you ...

I can tell you what I got out of speech therapy. In public school: Time away from class In my teens (professional speech therapy): little to nothing. In my 20s (professional speech therapy): fluen...

Hi, I'm an SLP in training who stutters. Easy on-set: Instead of forcing thru a sound (e.g., "FFFFFamily") with muscles tensed, gently say the sound while relaxing the muscles (e.g., "fffamily"). The...

With me , I'm not sure if you remember couple months ago, I posted about the ( Pausing technique ) I was using. Got that from a YouTube video but it really worked well. I'd pause after every word with...

As a speech pathologist I have not found that speech therapy had any effect on my stuttering. I found my own pathway to fluency. I learned how to breathe for speech based on how fluent speakers talk. ...

I can only speak for myself and my experience. Getting effective speech therapy was how I went from never-a-fluent sentence to fluent in under a year. I needed the right program. And it needed to be...

Yes, it's treatable. A qualified SLP who specializes in stuttering can help you learn fluency. The fact that your stutter ebbs and flows is a good indicator that you can improve your fluency. The t...

I've never suggested any person or product. Nor have you heard me say anything about a cure. Just that fluency can be learned. I've only shared my own personal experiences. I wholeheartedly endorse q...

When i give a presentation i usually stutter on the first word so if i know that i am gonna block on a certain word either i skip the first letter of the word or skip the word entirely. And after i ...

I mainly stutter on my vowels (words that begin with Y, W, or I) and for my what helped the most, was doing this word substitution method. Its really hard to put into words but this is how I do it but...

I mainly stutter on my vowels (words that begin with Y, W, or I) and for my what helped the most, was doing this word substitution method. Its really hard to put into words but this is how I do it but...

You CAN rewire your brain to not stutter. I don't think about being fluent. I don't employ techniques. The techniques were used while I developed fluent speech. But my fluency became second nature. ...