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Who influenced your stutter for the better?

Who influenced your stutter for the better? **Who in your life has influenced your stutter in a positive way?** If I had to pick three people, it would be my two first speech language pathologists (S...

How do I deal with high school?

How do I deal with high school? Hello fellow stutters (Not sure that is even a word) My name is Noah and i have stuttered all my life. My mother first noticed it when i was smaller and she thought I w...

Excercises that help reduce stuttering

Excercises that help reduce stuttering For all of you guys that has tried speech therapy etc, can you post some of the excercises you did here? It would be great with a sticky thread with excercises s...

Wow, that's really great and generous! I'm in my mid 20s and while I still a way to go, i've made huge strides in therapy. I have many peers who have done the same, so success in therapy is still very...

For me it got me over a major hump. I'm not fluent but I feel like I have the tools to work on myself....

If you're going to be a successful therapist you can't be afraid of making your client/patient uncomfortable. I might ask her what's helped her most in dealing with it. ...

When i started seeing my speech pathologist, She did some research about what would be best for us to do and she came back with the camper down program, I was 31 at the time. If you can afford it, or...

So, I'll out myself here as a SpeechEasy provider/SLP. Did you respond to it during the fitting? The purpose of the "fitting" is to see if it actually works for you in the first place, because it doe...

It works for some people, but for many others it doesn't. I tried the SpeechEasy and FluencyMaster (similar to the speecheasy, but the annoying buzzing is only when you speak). It works by basically t...

Been using speech easy for a few months

Been using speech easy for a few months And to be honest it's a piece of crap. I have noticed 0 change at all. I honestly don't see how it's supposed to work. I mean, I can't even get a beginning soun...

I cannot second the Vivian Sisskin series on Stuttertalk enough! It was instrumental in changing how I was viewing my therapy and I've shown much more improvement since (in both self-acceptance and, ...

There is another thread on advertising that might help you too. Here's my reply in it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/3s2lsw/why_i_dont_advertise_anymore/cwubsp1 But more broadly, the conc...

Speech therapy session went well today!

Speech therapy session went well today! So lately I have been having emotional issues with my stuttering and decided to get help again. Moving to a new city and having to meet people can be really st...

Well, if you're an adult, it's unlikely that your stutter will disappear entirely. It can be improved and negated quite a bit, but it probably won't go away. As for me, my stutter reached its peak whe...

Hey CassCat, I'm an SLP in my first year of working post grad school (my CF year). In grad school, I worked with 6 PWS - 3 school-age kids and 3 teens - and only one was in my clinical rotations at th...

SLP stuttering specialist here, and my take on this question is: yes. Most school-based therapy and uni clinics (unless they have a really good stuttering specialist on faculty) don't really understa...

We're mostly generalists. Specialization happens after graduation, and yes, there are certifications you can get (the Lidcombe program comes to mind). If you are seeking therapy, it's a good idea to m...

Is this something that is being advertised around the place? (Btw. I'm sorry if this seems to derail your original request, but I'm genuinely interested if there's a disconnect between the study and ...

I had a pretty severe stutter when I was younger. I was effectively mute through most of high school. I'd gone to speech therapy from 3rd grade onward,but none of it helped. Some actually made it wors...

Yes you can. In my group (while beeing on a treatment you work in groups) i have seen some really bad stuttering, and now no one stutters. It works, and u can be healed from it. Don't loose hope....