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There were so many little steps I had to do. Because stuttering is different in every person, you have to experiment what works best for you. My previous experiences with SLPs were pretty bad. There...

I stuttered through grade school, here's the advice I wish someone had told me 15 years ago

I stuttered through grade school, here's the advice I wish someone had told me 15 years ago I still stutter sometimes but a lot less than I used to. Here's my advice for someone just starting high sch...

I've taken a 3 week intensive course (similar hours) a few years ago, just make sure you practice what they told you to *everyday*. It can slip very easily - I'm happy it worked for you....

> Anything that distracts your mind from fear or takes your mind off the anticipation of stuttering will usually give you temporary relief. This is the main reason why stutterers are sometimes misl...

Just wanted to chime in and say this has helped me quite a bit - focusing on stopping the valsalva mechanism instead of focusing on getting the words out has helped me immensely. I don't think this is...

I can vouch for these type of programs working. I've never done one myself but I know people who have. EXTREME amount of ymmv....

Thanks for posting this. It actually explains a few of the actions that have worked for me recently. One being an increase in fluency when I take a full breath, as I was taught in my younger days as a...

Blocks are hard....that being said, from what I've read/experienced, blocks are generally the result of anticipating that you'll stutter and just trying "force" the sound out. So, not an easy fix for ...

Practice, practice, practice. Practice in front of people. Read your speech while taking a bath. Drink some chamomile tea and get a good night sleep. Remember when you are blocking don't keep pushin...

10%-20% better fluency

10%-20% better fluency I've found a technique that I've been using for the past week and it helps in some situations. You know how some musicians us a metronome to stay on pace. Well I've used the sam...

I'm taking therapy and getting positive results, but the anxiety is still crippling me. How do I work past that, especially for public speaking?

I'm taking therapy and getting positive results, but the anxiety is still crippling me. How do I work past that, especially for public speaking? Around two months ago, I started speech therapy. Some p...

Read out loud and do tongue twisters for sounds that give you problems beforehand. Speak very slow, monotone, and know when to pause and collect yourself. Good luck. Let us know how it went....

Hey dude, 28 year old customer service rep. My job is to literally answer phone calls and talk to people. It's taken me a long time to be where I am (I was diagnosed in Kindergarten, along with de-rho...

Dude ok heres what do you. If you are going to use your cell phone, DO NOT use your hand and hold it up to your ear. Go get a pair of earbuds with a mic (like the apple earbuds) and use those. When...

You can be fluent but I feel that's something I had to learn on my own. At the same time, SLPs helped me neutralize my impediment to the point where I only stutter 3% of the time. I can say my name, ...

Hey man, I really recommend you don't jerk your head. It will turn into a bad secondary behavior that will be hard to get rid of. Also, it doesn't help. We think it helps because it's worked intermitt...

Hey, thats a good observation. A lot of people put so much weight on fluency that as long as they can get out their words, they dont care how confounding they sound. Well I can tell you from experienc...

Forming coherent sentences as a stutterer

Forming coherent sentences as a stutterer I've stuttered fairly badly for most of my life. I've been to speech therapy on and off for most of my youth and a bit here and there as an adult. My fluency ...

That's really funny. I'm not a PWS but I'm shadowing a speech pathologist and she likes to make her patients "prime" using "ah" in front of numbers. So ah-one, ah-two, ah-three..etc. So maybe using th...

I don't remember what they were called but a few: 1) Block or stutter on a word? Stop midsentence and slowly repeat the word and continue on in the sentence. Felt so awkward doing this, so only did i...