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I am in PhD program and I stutter. I think I enrolled the program inspite of my stutter and because of my stutter. I needed to push boundaries and overcome this anxiety of new people, presentations et...

Guys!!!! I did it. I spoke my seminar fluently,like from begining to end... wooh hooh :' D I had to speak in an auditorium. Before the seminar i had to wait fr like 4 hrs fr my chance. Yes,i experien...

Welcome! One thing that I always try to do is to keep my body language as normal as possible. It can be tricky to not react to having a disfluency, but it makes a world of difference to me. Also, have...

Breathe out for half a second before you start speaking after taking a pause (IE at the start of each sentence) so that the first word comes from the breath. Also, slightly elongate the first word of ...

I do sometimes yes, but when i do i try to remember my techniques. These techniques being, calming my mind, taking a deep breath, focusing on timing my breaths between words/sentences and thinking to ...

I went to a 4 week intensive in Toronto that was based on the well known Hollins program in VA (Intensive fluency shaping program). It was basically like i described. I spoke great in that super suppo...

The biggest thing is going in with confidence, not being afraid to stutter, and just being yourself. If you show people that your stuttering doesn't bother you, then it won't bother them either. Somet...

Stuttering and breath, anyone else?

Stuttering and breath, anyone else? I've never been able to really breathe through my nose very well. I've got tiny noseholes or something, and cannot get enough air through them to comfortably breath...

General advice for someone with a heavy stutter?

General advice for someone with a heavy stutter? Before I begin, I'll give you some information about myself to clear up any confusion or questions that might arise later on. (The whole post is quite ...

Web app (market research)

Web app (market research) I am an entrepreneur with a stutter. One of my main criteria for selecting a new venture is to solve a problem. Since discovering this subreddit and a [self-therapy book](ht...

I try to 'visualize' the words in my head as I'm speaking. I basically 'write' the sentence/words out in my head and 'read' them, concentrating on one syllable at a time. I find that this forces me ...

My sutter isn't bad, but it's definitely still there. BUT I can spit a macklemore or eminem song without even thinking about it and not block at all. There is another rapper that has a stutter and h...

If I'm having trouble, I'll write the sentence I want to say out in my head and then read it like a script. If I'm *really* having trouble with a block, I'll use a starter word, like "it's" or "dude" ...

Whatever I happen to be reading online at the time. Sometimes I'll read a news article, other times a blog post. At the very least, I have reddit comments to fall back on....

I recently got a book called ["Self Therapy for the Stutterer"](http://www.amazon.com/Self-Therapy-Stutterer-Malcolm-Fraser/dp/0933388454) and it has various exercises broken down into nine (I think)...

Valsalva hypothesis and stuttering: sounds really promising

Valsalva hypothesis and stuttering: sounds really promising https://www.youtube.com/user/stutteringtherapist/videos It certainly helped me. I've just bought his book also, to further enhance it. Will ...

the thing that helps me the most is setting the pace at the start. This means with the first word and often with the first sound of the first word. stretch the sound out to start the sentence at a slo...

Certain words I substitute, but I can't always substitute. I can't say 'remember' all the time, so I will say 'recall' as its easier to say. Try and take tactical pauses as well and take a breath or...

One thing my therapist in school did, was when I was speeding up, she would start tapping slowly on the desk to slow myself down. You could try lightly tapping on your pant leg, your arm, or somethin...

Yep. I've begun doing that for a few weeks now. How do you read when there are words you're going to get blocks on? Do you just power through them or substitute? Also, when people remark on how yo...