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I stutter and I can tell you it has nothing to do with breathing. I had some untalented speech therapists in elementary school who would just tell me to work on slow breathing and to "stop and start o...

How I think stuttering is solved...

How I think stuttering is solved... Stutters who "block" unconsciously hold their inhale. They don't exhale when they are blocking. Fluent speakers unconsciously exhale as soon as their lungs are at a...

Light contact involves just barely bringing your articulators (lips, tongue, teeth, roof of your mouth-- the oral mechanisms that make contact to form consonants for speech) together when you reach a ...

I've never tried light-contact before. Can you elaborate? Also, I keep telling myself that I'll tell people that I stutter (in cases of doing a presentation), but I can never actually get myself to d...

HCRI doesn't work for someone so don't get your hopes pinned on it. IMO, its a pretty specific therapy program and one that doesn't work for me....

I'll give some personal experience that's helped me a lot, in hopes you find some of the tips useful. I also stutter, am 22 years old, and I primarily block. I experience some prolongations on initia...

When you speak before the class in poetry readings etc. you should announce your stutter beforehand. Any time I have to give a speech I do it and it makes everyone much more comfortable/understanding ...

I'm 22 and have been stuttering all my life as well, and have experienced nearly everything you mentioned. My father had anger management issues when I was a kid and life was pretty stressful at times...

How I think stuttering can be solved.

How I think stuttering can be solved. Stutters who "block" unconsciously hold their inhale. They don't exhale when they are blocking. Fluent speakers unconsciously exhale as soon as their lungs are...

Has anyone in the McGuire program achieved lasting fluency? How different is it from HCRI and PFSP? I am curious. I am looking for people who are interested in a new approach that does not involve ...

Stuttering & how I think I JUST solved the puzzle.

Stuttering & how I think I JUST solved the puzzle. I created this reddit account just for the sole purpose of posting here. I've been a lurker for what it seems like years. I'm not going to bore ...

Watch your tongue! A tip for continuous speech for people who stutter. Let me know your thoughts!

Watch your tongue! A tip for continuous speech for people who stutter. Let me know your thoughts! ...

The same thing happened to me. I did not like talking like a robot and of course my fluent speech relapsed. I went to the PFSP program in Virginia and I am finding more and more evidence to suggest ...

I too have tried this method and the truth is that you should not have to constantly be thinking about how to slur your words together when you talk. This speech sounds unnatural. I had to ween myse...

That's an interesting thought. How exactly does rhythm help you to speak fluently? I teach my students a strategy called pausing and phrasing, where they break up long sentences/paragraphs into shorte...

Reading out loud

Reading out loud For some reason, whenever I read directly from a piece of paper, book, PowerPoint, etc. I am able to speak clearly and fluently. Was wondering if anyone else had experienced this and...

One technique that worked for me is something that speech therapists called catching the block. When a block happens, as opposed to trying to force the word out, simply stop (aka "catch" it), relax, ...

Could you elaborate a little on how you rate the stages (1-9)? I do something similar (reading daily, with slow speech + continuous phonation), but I don't have a rating scale. You say you took 2 - 3...

How does one progress through each step? Meaning, when going from 9 to 8, what's the difference? Is it just speaking faster or what?...

Never heard of this but it sounds like its operating off of the idea of continuous phonation. What happens when you're at the end of your breath and need to start a new sentence. how does this work wh...