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Referring to my last statement: Teaching stuttering modification or fluency shaping may reinforce “stuttering is bad”, “hide stuttering at all cost” etc. These strategies are very rarely successf...

I am 100% NOT recommending a “let’s see what works” mentality when it comes to stuttering. It’s a “What is your goal for coming to therapy? Here are some things we can do. Some things I try to a...

therapy helped a lot of people but the therapist definitely matters. some are stuck in old methods that make kids self conscious. Better Speech lets you try different therapists until you find the rig...

accidentally might've offended my speech therapist

accidentally might've offended my speech therapist (21f) hey all! i just want to vent about something that happened to me recently because i really have nobody else to talk to about it because non-stu...

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...

I went to the speech and stuttering institute 20 years ago and was taught outdated and unhelpful therapy. I checked their website and they still use much of the same writing so I would not recommend t...

That's your instincts are right, that's largely the case. Most SLPs ranking stuttering as their least confident condition. I also believe it's the most different to other speech issues. You need an ex...

We've had all kinds, I think starting in first grade they really emphasized the "strategies" and later on they moved on to "acceptance." My son seems to have some secondary characteristics (tongue t...

There's plenty of bad therapy out there that can reinforce stigma by praising and prioritizing fluency. Finding a great SLP can be helpful (if he needs it, which a great SLP who understands stuttering...

Most speech therapists don't understanding stuttering. This one doesn't sound very informed. Try someone else who has more experience with stuttering. ...

I had a therapist who ran a group was obsessed with disclosing, pseudo stuttering exercises to get comfortable stuttering publicly, and generally owning your stutter h exercising words like “speech i...

My parents were special education teachers and my god-parent was a SLP in my town, and my stutter was so “covert” that I also never got appropriate help. Most SLPs do not receive training to address ...

A speech therapist tried this technique on me about 50 years ago. It was a horrible experience. He convinced me to try faking my stutter in social situations, to learn how to control it. This crashed ...

_This is a copy-paste of a previous comment I've made since I think it might be beneficial to you. I don't want to take away from your confidence, but this is advice I'd have wanted when I was in your...

I have been largely isolated since I lost the past jobs and its taken a toll on my mental health. The new job I started is in Biology. In one year I can change my whole life around and build sound sta...

Totally agree; we should have more options. Anyone with a disability should! So sorry you lost your job. That seems like a total overstep by them asking for that information, too. I'm roughly 10 yea...

Using sign language for a stuttered is insane. Every therapist has slightly different ways of doing things, but I would have changed therapists after that!...

I had a really bad experience with speech therapy early on in life. I had it from age 6 to about 16 and hated pretty much all of it. I just couldn't shake the impression I was constantly being patroni...

I was at one of the last sessions they ever did, they didn't really say but I got the feeling it was due to Dr. Webster getting too old....

If the therapy has already worked, then it means you have real ways to improve, and that alone is amazing. Relapsing happens, and it is not your fault. Many people do not realize how much effort it ta...