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Because the average speech therapist teaches you some techniques to gain fluency which either don't work in high pressure situations or stop working after a while...

It was always as useful as someone saying “slow down, take your time.” Except they were a trained professional, not some random guy at work....

No it’s mostly useless. SLPs percentage of making PWS speak fluently is really low. Low single digit success rate...

I’ve tried it for a while (after figuring the basics out by myself — this is basically just syllable tapping) and like other fluency tricks it sounds unnatural and stops working when you get used to i...

Like with so many other things, it works when you’re alone or briefly when you demonstrate it to others. Not really possible, in my experience, to maintain it, and it, along with other forced cadences...

You can't do it because by and large, techniques don't work. If they did, they'd help a lot more people. They fail you when you really need them, and then you get blamed for not practicing enough or s...

It seems most people here in this community are more about "acceptance" and "coping" with stuttering and just trying to support each other's morale rather than actively trying to fight for the cure. ...

Same here. Every time, I start it and feel the difference then slowly realise it's more or less the same then discontinuing it....

Because it's my personal opinion that the techniques that you learn in speech therapy aren't like your natural way of speaking. It might work for sometime, but it feels forced and after a while they s...

Like any therapy it’s quite dependent on the therapist. My previous experience they just told me to speak slower, which wasn’t helpful. My recent set of sessions was more structured, and got into wha...

I have read your posts, thank you for sharing them. Your way of overcoming was speech therapy, but for most people it did/does not work, or simply we are unable to find the right speech therapists. ...

Didn't really work for me - all they asked me to do was to use some techniques which felt very unnatural. My speech improved for some time then I started stuttering again...

Partial recovery and relapse with a much talked about method here

Partial recovery and relapse with a much talked about method here I am going to share my experience with Lee Lovet's method in search of similar experiences because it's a curious experience that migh...

> No thank you. I'll never hesitate to tell a parent to pursue effective speech therapy if their story merits it I never said not to suggest therapy. In fact, I was insinuating the opposite when I s...

Speech therapy is the answer...for you. Im familiar with your story, and I am sincerely happy that speech therapy was so successful for you. One thing I would suggest is maybe take pause in such def...

You probably haven’t practiced bc your brain knows the habits you learned aren’t helpful. Most SLP s actually aren’t trained to treat stuttering. They this...

I’ve met my fair share of people who stutter through therapy and self-help groups. Literally everyone who did the Del Ferro therapy reported the same thing: you’re fluent for the first few weeks after...

I got removed from speech therapy after I didn’t give them the results they wanted. My stutter only gets worse and worse. They might have at first think it was anxiety or shyness but in my case it’s n...

Unfortunately many speech therapists are grossly misinformed. You mentioned your stutter is kinda severe, indicating the techniques maybe arent working! You are certainly welcome to keep using that ...

There are a few different “types” of speech therapy and an also of dysfluency. Some combinations work leave with client with improved speaking ability and confidence - some will do the opposite....