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I’ve been through this for many years, it’s so embarrassing. But the good news is you don’t have to stutter. please please please - check out Lee Lovett’s program based on the neuroscience method. I s...

Varies from standard breathing exercises, purposeful stuttering, easy onset; which are all standard therapy approaches. But I also take into account the person, the environments they are in, and their...

I went through speech therapy from when I could talk until I graduated high school. I learned a lot through my therapy sessions that helped. Graduate school helped me to learn some of the science and ...

so you stutter and work as a speech pathologist? were you able to apply the same treatment/techniques that you give patients to yourself? and how did that go?...

Good for you!!!!. As a speech pathologist and lifelong stutterer I learned how to breathe for speech. My whole focus was on understanding the Valsalva response as it relates to stuttering. I can basic...

Not techniques. I learned fluency. Almost like learning a second language. Read my post and comments here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/tir6v2/i\_was\_the\_announcer\_at\_a\_charity\_h...

Yeah, it really can help it’s not an overnight thing, but consistency makes a big difference. I was nervous at first too. I read an article about Julie Mercadante that explained how myofunctional the...

... this is a long shot, but here goes 🙂. A UK charity, [Empowering Voices ](https://www.empoweringvoices.co.uk/) is holding a three-day intensive speech course at Sheffield Hallam University (UK) on...

>And no adult ever cured their stutter.  Cured is a loaded word. I'll always be a stutterer. But I no longer stutter. Those of us with severe stutters have achieved fluency. I was a severe stutterer...

There's a lot of factors that go into the success of speech therapy. In my opinion, based on anecdotal experience, these factors include... How committed are you to speech therapy? What effort do ...

Hey there! I never did any therapy until 22 or so, which was short lived. Where I live, it costs $200+ out of pocket and I couldn't afford it at the time. It did help me at the time, I kinda wish I'...

I started with hour-long weekly sessions. When my speech therapist noticed i had made improvements, we toned it down to twice a month, and then once a month. I’ve had so many sessions i can’t keep t...

Lee Lovett's "Stop Stuttering Short Course" has helped me a ton. It's taken me over a year, but my speech is better than it's ever been...

I am a lifelong stutterer so I chose to become a speech pathologist. My knowledge and my research in the field helped me to become fluent. I learned how to breathe for speech as it relates to the Vals...

Unfortunately, I've tried two and have not had any lasting improvements. I have had a stutter and block issue for so many years, and I've learned to dance around my words in such a way that there's ve...

As an older person, 51, these are things i wish i had been taught in speech therapy but i never was We should teach kids it's okay to stutter and that when they do stutter, rather than getting upset,...

speech therapy went well

speech therapy went well just wanted to come on here and share a big win (for me atleast) that happened today. as the heading says i had my first speech therapy session today, i feel weirdly happy af...

It depends. When I was in elementary and high school, I had "speech therapy" at school but the therapists were... not very good. They tried, just weren't that capable. A few years after I graduated HS...

SLP and PWS here. We need to stop sending conflicting messages. I see MANY SLPs embrace the counseling, acceptance and social/emotional aspects of stuttering therapy, then tell the student, “okay le...

SLP here: what do you think we could do better?

SLP here: what do you think we could do better? Hello, everyone. I’m a high school SLP who has worked with many students who stutter over the years and I have a lot of conflicted feelings on the instr...