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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 ...

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...

Does anyone have interesting speech therapy stories?

Does anyone have interesting speech therapy stories? I'll start. Went to speech therapy from elementary school through middle school. Twice a week for 8 years and I feel like I don't have a whole lot ...

no therapy helps

no therapy helps i’ve been stuttering since first grade, and now i’m a senior in high school going to graduate and after all the years of school speech therapy and other things, i have come to the con...

"the problem with traditional therapy is they treat everyone the same when stuttering is super individual. if breathing exercises and reading aloud felt unnatural then yeah that wasnt the right approa...

Shoot. Just from a quick Google search, it appears that a foreign speech therapist would only be able to offer services if they were credentialed in Bulgaria, which is unlikely. I could be wrong, but ...

Should i start speech therapy again?

Should i start speech therapy again? So basically a few weeks ago my stutter got a lot more severe. It happens sometimes but this time it's particularly bad where a single sentence has a block in 9 ou...

Oh, this is nice. I would be glad to help and get the app as soon as you launch it (keep us in touch!) I answer the questions: \- When do you stutter the most?: At the beggining of sentences or cert...

I have already seen a speech therapist and what they were telling me did not work. Life is not as black and white as you think it is. Also my message was not a false promise it was "this worked fo...

I was in therapy my entire adolescence and it absolutely did not help at all. Every therapist I had went the “we are going to make phone calls today, even though you absolutely hate it” route and “sll...

Speech therapy doesn't work for a majority of adults with a severe stutter. I looked through every study that has been done. Speech therapy has been proven useful for kids tho. Can you give some off...

speech therapy doesn't work for you*, but it's proven to increase fluency in many others. there are many possible reasons why you might fail to respond to therapy. if i were more cynical i'd say you n...

The only thing that's false in your first paragraph is speech therapy. This simply doesn't work And your last paragraph is bullshit. You only say that because currently there's no medical treatment ...

honest opinion is that it is more like a program for someone who wants to improve their public speaking skills and confidence, not a stuttering therapy program. Even then, I don't think anything it of...

I did speech therapy from kindergarten till freshman year. It just consisted of sitting in a room. Small talk than practicing phrases. I believe it helped, but it got mentally draining, so I got mysel...

Hey! Sorry for the late response. It's basically what you said, everyone that went to a speech language pathologist had mixed feelings and results. But from what I've read on this subreddit, it's tilt...

got damn, that's heavy. stuttering SLP in training here. i hated my stutter in high school, but now my friends and co-workers joke about my stutter and it's a world of difference. i saw multiple SLPs...

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...

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...

I’m getting new speech therapy in school now and it’s much better. The whole reason I made this post was because I was previously doing speech therapy online and the entire focus was strategies, and a...