Search

are you familiar with any stuttering methods? it's different what works for people - like, willful/controlled stuttering on the problematic item, or breathing in before, or opening with/drawing out a ...

can you get your speech therapists to try something else? can you get to another speech therapist? "pray the stammer away", eh?... :| i guess family's out. what of friends? but seriously, thinking i...

I'm 19. My speech therapy sessions are pretty infrequent, unfortunately. They try to push this speech technique where you prolong your speech - and I don't really like it (It's monotonous) You can...

the detailed feedback is what I was referring to. Getting a "C" on the W pronunciation doesn't tell you how to improve it. Should I round my lips more? Increase the height of my tongue? There's prob...

Try focusing on opening up your throat before beginning your speech. You might even make a small sound that will help fluent speech begin. Imagine you are pushing a cart on flat ground to give it enou...

I hope I didn't kill the comments. I was in a rather bad mood when posting last night and realize I came off kind of strong. For that, I'm sorry. Anyway, to actually answer your question rather than...

keep going, i believe in you! Sometimes, i just give up all techniques and just....let my words flow. It works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. ...

Yeah, that's one thing that has surprised me on this sub. I stutter a lot more cos I feel my mouth gets lazy. But normally I put in a lot of effort to not stutter using various techniques....

Yeah I use myself as a control. I know when I call people and talk on the phone I do average. When I was on Valium I was having long drawn out convos with me doing a lot of the talking fluent. I guess...

How are you controlling your experiments? (also I wonder if you and I mean the same thing by 'experiments'). If you're not controlling them you don't know what (which) variable(s) are dependent. So yo...

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...

I can't believe this book is not in the sidebar

I can't believe this book is not in the sidebar Hey guys, so I've been stutterring since I was about 8 and up until recently I thought that I might have to live with this issue, even thou I have been ...

Your speech therapy history

Your speech therapy history I'm curious about the speech therapy history of people here. I will start with mine. I began stuttering at the age of five. Stuttering runs in my family, so I assume I had...

Reading this made me feel very happy with myself. Just like yourself, I am 18, and have stammered since a young age. Small groups or friends is usually no problem, but required public speaking, especi...

In a face to face conversation the most effective method I've come up with is to look away from the persons face for a split second. Focus on something in the background. Say the name or short descrip...

> Going from this I made adjustments to how I talk, Fantastic, I like descriptions :) > at any given time I try to rest my tongue flat on the bottom of the mouth. This allows for movement an...

In need of a little advice, words of wisdom, support & all the above.

In need of a little advice, words of wisdom, support & all the above. I'm at a point where I feel like my speech has gotten really bad. Like I can barely say two words. I attribute this to the fac...

How I taught myself to "stop" stuttering.

How I taught myself to "stop" stuttering. I am a 21 year old male and have been stuttering. badly, for as long as I can recall through school, work and social engagements. There have been times when t...

Are there any people in here willing to talk on skype?

Are there any people in here willing to talk on skype? If we could talk to each other, I think it could help some of us, it could practice our speech fluency. I don't know if that ever works for you,...

Breathing helps blocks. The momentum of the breath helps me push out the word. It dpesnt always work and sometimes it feels strange breathing mid sentence though. Worth a shot....