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This was all great info, thank you! I look forward to exploring the resources a lot of you provided! I also think this was a bit of a wake up call for me in several areas--in terms of my experience ...

Im an old guy who has had many different kinds of therapies from SLPs over my lifetime. Unfortunately they either didn't work or didn't last. As others have said, unless you have stuttered its hard to...

I went to speech therapy as a kid and later as an adult and I can’t say it did anything for me. As an adult I had the frustrating situation where I barely stuttered at all in therapy. So it was hard t...

Yeah that's a good point. I do work with clients who are working with mental health professionals and therapists as well. There are definitely professional boundaries. SLPs focus specifically on th...

Do you prefer in person or zoom? I prefer in person, but I am getting mor comfortable on zoom. How did you find your therapist? Haven't dont therapy in a while, but it was difficult finding a stu...

As an person who gone to actually speech therapy and went for like 3 years it personally didnt do much for me as i didn't see that it helped me in any sort of way i tried it but as i didnt see much of...

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...

thank you for this comment! I agree with you about the negatives about doing it online (I can imagine it would be difficult for both therapist and client) but I wasn't sure what people find most acce...

I should clarify that my "let's see what works" comment referred specifically to strategies and techniques work best for the client, since it's not the same for everyone. I think you put it much bette...

This is great feedback, thank you! And I agree! I'm definitely a "let's see what works" therapist, in all areas. My reason for wanting to focus on stuttering is pretty simple--I really enjoy the ...

The problem with speech pathologists in my opinion is that they will never truly understand what stuttering is and there is always be a disconnect. I went to speech therapy for 10 years and it didn'...

What training and experience do you have with stuttering that has driven you to this decision? The biggest mistake I see with therapists treating stuttering is that the therapist focuses on ONE trea...

I think it depends where you're based. It sounds like maybe these aspects are not considered a lot in your country. I don't stutter myself but I'm a speech therapist in the UK and here we focus large...

I think it depends where you're based. It sounds like maybe these aspects are not considered a lot in your country. I don't stutter myself but I'm a speech therapist in the UK and here we focus large...

SLP who wants to hear from people who stutter about therapy experiences

SLP who wants to hear from people who stutter about therapy experiences Hi everyone. I've been a speech pathologist who has been working in the school system for 23 years and am actively contemplatin...

Do you still do own therapy everyday? Like reading aloud for 1-2 hours, or some other methods that you learned in therapy?...

I absolutely love Expressable. I did have a problem with the billing at the beginning of the year, but it took less than a month to get it rectified and receive my refund. I did have to put therapy on...

All these speech therapy programs help with managing fluency using breathing and soft onset techniques. They don’t really address the psychological impact of having a lifelong speech impediment. That...

Hey, I can completely empathise with you. One thing that would help is just telling everyone about this, this way you will feel more relieved about it. We can voice call chat on discord or any other ...

phone stuttering variability is real and frustrating. Better Speech has stuttering specialists at $79.95/week which is decent for online. NSA support groups are free if you want peer connection, or St...