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Ya I’ve spent most of childhood & adult life with speech “therapist/ professionals” it definitely helped me, I will never say it’s a waste of time. But that’s all it is, Is just help/practice....

Speech Therapy. Qualified SLP who specializes in stuttering. Learning fluent speech. Not tips. Not tricks. A rebuild of speech from the ground up....

How I Answer 99% of Questions About Stuttering

How I Answer 99% of Questions About Stuttering I often get direct messages from strangers on social media asking about overcoming stuttering. I send links to my publications, but most of the time they...

Agree. I used to have these horrible blocks and repetitions. Through facing my fear, changing my mindset, and going to speech therapy I have been able to speak fluently 75-80% of the time instead of l...

Hey! I totally get what you’re feeling. I grew up seeing how tough it can be when your hometown doesn’t have a proper speech therapy centre  and stuttering can really drain you emotionally. Just wante...

I agree.. But a speech therapist and a stutter speech therapist can be hugely different in outcomes in some cases....

Speaking about my 14yr old. After 12yrs of therapy with almost zero results, I took her to a well known stutter specialist in Atlanta. I didn’t get my hopes up, but after 3 days of 4hr therapy sessio...

The "speech therapy" I had in elementary and high school did basically nothing for me. Afterwards I got into a speech therapy program at Purdue University and it changed my life. It helped the profess...

Gave me practice at speaking and reading out loud with other kids. Did fake phone calls. Talked along to a metronome. Helped me realize that I could manage by keeping my speaking smooth and measured....

A starting point can be talking with your speech therapist about what your goals for therapy are. If you’ve had persistent developmental stuttering for years, it’s unlikely to resolve. That being said...

Online speech therapy isn’t a scam as long as the platform uses real licensed SLPs. I have not used Expressable myself, but I know a few parents who had good experiences with it. For my kid, we tried ...

yes! I tried your method for a day and my stuttering is already 20% better! Thank you!...

So I'm oddly good at public speaking. One thing specific that helps me, and may not help others, is that I cannot practice *too much*. I have my main ideas to cover, but I like to kind of improvise as...

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing! I too believe the brain has amazing neuroplasticity to repair / rewire damaged neuronal networks. It’s just repetitive and vigilant daily practice, and then it...

Self therapy for the stutterer by the stuttering foundation. I’m a speech therapist and that’s a book a lot of us read as clinicians. Just like speech therapy, there’s a lot of techniques that won’t ...

I understand how addictive it can be, trust me. My wind down before bed is to now put my phone away, and spend 10-15 minutes doing breathing relaxation exercises. I know it sounds like a bunch of wa...

That’s great to hear, i’m really proud of you. If you don’t mind me asking what does (SLP) mean?...

Appreciate the thought. I've been fluent for years now. Went back to my childhood (teen) SLP in my mid to late 20s and was able to achieve fluency....

**Part #2:** About distraction: I feel it is not promoted by speech language therapists because, as I say in the abstract, distraction is not reliable. But it helps me even now. I do agree that all...

Yes I had the same. Not practicing basically allows my brain to revert back to the old patterns. I still remember the techniques and try them from time to time with various degrees of success. I’ve...