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I was also very hesitant but I went to speech therapy around your age. I guess in the end I was just desperate. I have a difficult history with speech therapy and was very upfront about this from the ...

As an adult in their 30’s who stutters, there is not a lot of speech therapy targeting adults available where I am. Even when I did speech therapy as a child, it was not great or useful. I have starte...

I'm sorry you had a poor experience. It sounds like your therapist was inadequate for your needs. Not all speech therapy is the same. Think about all of the teachers you've encountered in your life....

Hesitant towards Speech Therapy as an adult

Hesitant towards Speech Therapy as an adult i’m 21(f) and i’ve stammered ever since I could talk and I went to years of speech therapy as a child and i found it incredibly embarrassing and almost offe...

I really dont like this new mindset in speech pathology that is so against trying to improve one’s speech. I’m a 34 year old man who’s had a mild stutter and have never felt shame about it, even as a...

I disagree. While the techniques alone are not useful in most practical situations, I think that the more important aspect is the confrontation with anxieties associated with stuttering. In my therapy...

It got a much better when I first started speech therapy but eventually all their tricks stop working and I am back at being a severe stutterer...

Hello, 24F person who stutters here! I've had a stutter my whole life. It has ranged from hardly noticeable, to so severe I isolate myself and don't speak at all. I've never been in big friend groups....

I went when I was young and it did nothing. I went from 4-11. Just made me feel dumb. I remember one time my speech therapist said “c’mon you should be getting this now.” Okay bitch...

So you’re giving up? Btw mind you the therapy that I did when I was 35 helped me the most. It helped me get out and just start talking. I stutter still, but because I talk so much, it’s gotten lesser ...

What were you taught in speech therapy? It varies a lot and the value of the treatment varies as a result. The most successful courses i have been on focus on two things. The first is acceptance and...

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAA [RANT] It’s gotten to a point where I want to rip my tongue out every time I interact with people and that fear of stuttering is making it worse. It’s been almost 17 years and I can’t r...

I have been to a therapist, They were not effective for me. It seemed like the techniques didn't work in real life. For medicines, I am quite apprehensive of them..I do not want to consume neurologi...

I stuttered all my life except for the last 5-6 years. I recently retired as a speech pathologist. I worked in the schools, clinics and in hospitals and nursing homes. Some people used to laugh at me ...

I can tell you what I got out of speech therapy. In public school: Time away from class In my teens (professional speech therapy): little to nothing. In my 20s (professional speech therapy): fluen...

Stutterers typically stutter in front of others because social presence activates threat, elevated dopamine, elevated anticipatory anxiety/adrenaline, and self-monitoring systems that disrupts our spe...

I'm from the UK and my four year old has a stutter. The public systems SLP's treatment at this age is educating parents and teachers. The goal is to give positive speaking experiences and ensure they ...

Yep if you have the money try speech therapy. Look at the results of adults vs kids going to speech therapy. For adults is basically worthless but kids actually get benefits. Its now or never. If it...

Alright here's my email, " yazansoul6@gmail.com" idk how to dm you privately cause i'm kinda new to reddit especially talking with people on it but i dont mind sharing it...

I have zoom, I can send you the zoom link, whenever we're going to practice our speech. You can DM me and give me your email address, so that whenever i need to send you the zoom link....