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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...

Yes, speech therapy helped me learn fluency. This was years and years ago. In person sessions. My therapist has long since retired. I frequently tell people finding the right resource is the biggest...

Went from a severe stutter to fluency in less than a year. Was in my mid 20s. Same therapy didn't help me in my teens. But that's on me. Finding the right fit for you will be the biggest challenge....

If your son is 5, and started stuttering - this sounds much like the beginning of my stuttering "career" (m/43). It is pretty normal (IMO) to have a bad week or two. fluency can come and go. It can be...

See that’s the thing between a good speech therapist vs a bad one. As a parent, I communicated with my child’s therapist almost every month to see how things were going. They were good so I’ll give th...

The "speech therapy" I had in elementary and high school did basically nothing for me. Afterwards I got into a speech therapy program at Purdue University and it changed my life. It helped the profess...

Seeing a stuttering speech therapist seems like it could be game changer for my daughter.

Seeing a stuttering speech therapist seems like it could be game changer for my daughter. I took my 14yr old daughter to see, Tim Mackesey, a certified stutter speech therapist in Atlanta for a 3 day ...

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...

SLP here. You may want to go online and look at the ASHA website for therapists who specialize in stuttering therapy. It can be hard to find therapists with regular experience in fluency therapy. ...

Speech therapy didn’t help me hugely, because I somehow could never make fluency techniques work for me. I just couldn’t use them in actual life, or didn’t care to. But it did help a bit because goin...

I’m new to speech therapy but I love it! My therapist is so nice and supportive. My therapy is more about building my confidence and helping me to feel more comfortable with speaking and stuttering. I...

As a speech therapist who stutters, therapy can be very beneficial! I'd recommend seeking someone who is certified and licensed (has CCC in their title). I'd be upfront about what you hope to work on ...

Most therapy isn't good. But if you can find good therapy from someone who understands stuttering, it's worth it. ...

100% you have to work at it. I always state that I believe the speech therapist is a key part of the process. That I don't believe in techniques to provide fluency. But that I am familiar with what o...

Therapy works wonders but you need to find the right theatpist for you and be in the right head space. But yeah, whatever works for you...

SLP here. The skill of speech therapists doing fluency therapy varies A LOT. Consider looking at ASHA’s website to find someone who specializes in speech therapy. Most of us don’t spend that much ti...

I’m an SLP and I always tell my students that the point of therapy isn’t to eliminate your stutter but to give you tools to help you be more fluent when you want to be more fluent. Some strategies wil...

This is a recommendation and some caveats about what worked for me and my son. First of all I would just reiterate that children under the age of 6 can be treated in a way in which older children and...

I'd highly recommend the Lidcombe program - My 4.5 year son stuttered badly and 4 months later he is almost completely stutter free. As a parent who went through it though I would say the main things ...

I know it is but it pisses me off when people say it. I don't know why. Yes, I stutter. Yes, it's considered a disability. But idk, this connotation of "You are disabled" makes me want to reject it in...