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Just did my first week of Intensive Therapy... Wow.

Just did my first week of Intensive Therapy... Wow. This has been the most challenging and rewarding week of my life. Six days ago I started a two week intensive program at the American Institute of S...

I've had around 3-4 speech therapy teachers in the past 7 years. It really varies from teacher to teacher. Some teacher are useless and just tell you what you've been hearing for years. Talk slower,...

Hey Daniel, good on you for taking action! I'm doing avoidance reduction therapy where I work on eliminating all my junk behaviors and try to stutter clean and free. Through this process im also lear...

I did a ton of therapy and at best it was only gave me temporary control. Then I found a new therapy that is about letting go of control and I think im much happier. Check out her talks: http://stutte...

I'm 32 and last year for the first time I tried speech therapy. First I tried it privately, where the going rate was $100/hr. I wasn't convinced after that first session that it was going to be worth ...

I have around 20 years of experience with different kinds of speech/stutter therapy. It never helped me get more control over my speech longterm. I would estimate, based on experiences in last group t...

I didn't do speech therapy but I did do the 2 week intensive clinic at the university of Utah and I have to say that I am glad I went. At that point in my life I hit rock bottom and I didn't know wha...

I don't recall much as a child (as in what we did in them sessions), But i saw one for a few years and overall it helped, i also got to school 2hrs late one day a week, so double win. But..i saw a sp...

From what it sounds like you guys already have a good relationship going on and you already know what not to do. I would say let them fight through the block. Do not try to insert words because that c...

I have done something very similar just by forcing myself to have small conversations throughout the workday with people. I enjoy the conversation and it doubles as speech therapy for me. Some days ar...

I think it's pretty common knowledge that the vast majority of stutterers grow out of it just before adulthood. So I wouldn't confuse your adolescent hijinks with helping you end your stutter. Stutter...

So I wrote an essay about stuttering for a scholarship application

So I wrote an essay about stuttering for a scholarship application For a college scholarship application, I had to write an essay about overcoming an adversity in my life and I knew the biggest advers...

It looked like the SSMP is a DIY kind of course, I'm a little interested in that. I think the really expensive one I was thinking of is the HCRI. ...

successful stuttering management program. I know the director if you're interested....

Only a nominal fee after the initial cost. 20 dollars or so. 4 day intensive course. Lifelong participation, you get a couch you will call every day for 2 weeks, and you will talk to him a long time. ...

I'm not sure the point is to "stop"? We have some speech therapists in the house, I think, maybe they can weigh in on this one. But it was my understanding that this technique merely contains the stut...

I've heard of people who practice fluent speech by purposefully stuttering on words they normally don't stutter on. With this they try and get better control over their stutter - meaning they can sto...

I really liked the points they brought up about avoidance, and praising the showing up. I've never had any sessions with a SLP, but being able to learn these things from Paul and his guests, is an inv...

Hey guys, (and girls) a question about speech therapy.

Hey guys, (and girls) a question about speech therapy. Hey, I am a clutterer. I had different speech disorders when I was a kid, general flowing and pronunciation issues, all which were treated thro...

So it's interesting you bring this up. Your perspective is similar to a method of stuttering intervention that doesn't get talked about very much. Dean Williams' Normal Talking Model suggested that st...