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I found the key to fluency is to gain control of the Valsalva response. I am now fluent and have never had a relapse....

The Valsalva response has to do with your vocal cords. The fluent speaker’s brain tells the vocal cords to open during speech whereas the stuttering brain tells the vocal cords to close during speech ...

I do not believe in strategies or techniques to help reduce stuttering. I am a speech pathologist and a life long stutterer. I was too ashamed to stutter on purpose to help desensitize my speech. I ne...

I went through everything you have gone through. I was so embarrassed and ashamed of my stuttering so I felt I needed to find the answer. I spent years researching how the brain learns where I discove...

I am a SLP and a lifelong stutterer. I was a coward and had such low self esteem that I couldn’t stutter voluntarily. I needed to find an answer. I spent over 20 years researching how the brain learns...

What causes this?

What causes this? Does anyone stutter when they say the sentence in their head first? All of a sudden I get a block. Whenever I have a conversation where I just don't think about my words I don't stut...

Stuttering is neurological in origin. There is a moment of loss of control in speech, and then the stuttering is the tension that one creates as a reaction to the loss of control. It’s like when you...

Sudden development of stutter/jumbled speech

Sudden development of stutter/jumbled speech Just a precursor: I’m hoping this is the correct subreddit to post to, if people can give advice etc… June of 2024 I started stuttering really suddenly, a...

I clench my jaw and press my teeth together really hard sometimes when I get stuck. This caused some mild pain so I’ve been getting better at not doing that lol....

Is this known or a new thing?

Is this known or a new thing? I've been trying new things to "cure" my stutter for the past couple of years. Some didn't work at all, some worked but not fully. Recently I've been trying to emulate ...

Comment #3: **Realization of stuttering at motor programming:** The imprecise or discoordinated signals to muscles would precipitate a realization of stuttering. Learning from previous experiences i...

Comment #2: Once stuttering is anticipated, conscious and/or subconscious deviations are initiated to deal with the secondary influence (i.e., the atypical neurological processes that underpin stutte...

Does stuttering hurt?

Does stuttering hurt? I posted recently about how my stuttering only began as an adult, and how there haven't been any (known) neurological problems. It's most likely due to drops in blood pressure, a...

>*You said: "Well, no. I don't stutter when I'm alone."* Awesome comment! Me too, what you said resonates a lot with my own experience. When I was in primary school, I always stuttered severely when ...

I've created a list of interventions that I extracted from above research. **Interventions:** * address the feeling that our speech-related predictions are unable to reliably minimize prediction err...

I think that we don't achieve stuttering remission due to the "problem" of belief updating and error minimization. So: I think that our subconscious does this completely wrong, because it's designed...

yes absolutely. if a word is more difficult or surprising than expected, and we start overthinking (or we start relying on more control), essentially we allow our subconscious to catastrophize the pre...

Does your stuttering get worse when you feel that you need to get your words out quickly? If you allow yourself permission to speak slower, do you stutter less or more?...

I agree that it’s our brains working faster than our mouths. So it’s completely involuntary. Although I get so frustrated with my stutter that I try to speak louder to avoid the blocking but I don’t w...

Thank you for opening up like this — everything you’re describing is real, and I promise you’re not alone in this. You said something key: *“when I’m talking alone, none of this happens.”* That’s n...