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Yes, I know. Before the stutter even starts, the muscles are already ready for it — tense and frozen....

Thank you for your response I really appreciate it :) Unfortunately most of the time I don’t get my point across as I either give up as I can feel myself going bright red and getting more worked up w...

Worsening stutter

Worsening stutter Hi all! I am a 24 year old female and I have had a stutter throughout my whole life. It is hereditary as my father and 2 of my siblings also have one. Over the last year it has go...

i wish secondary behaviors were known among general public. people may know about repetition type of stuttering, while ignorant about block type of stuttering, and even more ignorant about secondary b...

They’re called secondary behaviors. I tend to shut my eyes and jerk my head when I’m struggling and have a lot of tension. At some point, the behavior may have helped get the word out, and then it sto...

Nope, at least I understand that it's normal to tense up several facial muscles and even the neck within this community...

Twitching

Twitching Im 14M and sometimes when I stutter without using any strategies my whole face and head sort of like twitch until the word comes out. However, I can stop it if I think about it, and if I do,...

Mi hijo de 5 ya lleva 7 meses tartamudeando también. No es tan severa como este verano y el patrón va cambiando pero ahí está. Antes tenía bloqueos muy desagradables y ahora sobre todo lo que tiene es...

Did 5 years in the Army, 1st 3 was in S-3 shop (I was the radio operator in the TOC) in a light infantry unit. Did 1 year at an NCO academy and last year in a Finance battalion. I stutter pretty bad...

In a huge stuttering “slump?”

In a huge stuttering “slump?” Hey everyone! I 27m have been stuttering for as long as I can remember. I won’t go through my entire story right now but I feel like recently I’ve been stuttering so much...

7 year old severe stutter / ADHD medication

7 year old severe stutter / ADHD medication Hi, my 7 year old started with a bad stutter when we were overseas visiting family in May last year. Once we got back home to school we got him SLT sessions...

This is similar to how breathing is sometimes used in mindfulness or anxiety regulation. It does not address the neurological basis of stuttering, but it may help some people feel more control, reduce...

Thank you for raising this. I agree that stuttering is rarely caused by breathing itself, and we are not treating breathing as the root cause or a fix for stuttering. When we talk about guided breathi...

I'm thinking of something like showing how one feels before, during, and after stuttering, like a sequence of several shots where one swallows saliva, clenches a fist, compulsively moves their foot, h...

Teach yourself to speak like an orator and you won't stutter, when speaking as an orator. I found that the more relaxed I am the worse it gets, mainly because I'm not putting as much physical effort i...

I have a tremor in my hands when I block. I had to assure my doctor it wasn’t Parkinson’s...

My Pausing technique recording.

My Pausing technique recording. Hi guys. This is my pausing technique I told you about before. I basically pause after every word to slow down my rate of speech. Its kinda robotic but I try my best ma...

My English is wrong at some points here: … try to minimize secondary symptoms and show your stutter in the most bare form....

When I describe stuttering to my friends I describe it like this. (Imagine having someone behind you constantly interrupting you and stopping you mid sentence stopping to from speaking constantly and ...

Articulation Speech Therapy Making Disfluency Worse?

Articulation Speech Therapy Making Disfluency Worse? Hi All! I have a sweet and intelligent five year old son currently going to speech therapy 3x a week for articulation issues. He had several ear in...