Find your voice
Stuttering can of course dramatically affect your life but it does not have to keep you from doing what you want! I believe that understanding your stuttering and looking at it objectively are important aspects of addressing it. Though there are many unanswered questions about why and how stuttering happens in the body, there are physical descriptions and strategies that can be useful in modifying it. These strategies involve speech techniques and mental reminders to handle disruptions as they occur. My speech therapy approach aims to help you manage your stuttering as well as you can while also managing your feelings about it, so that you can feel more control over it rather than it controlling you. Therapy activities may include the following:
Have you noticed what makes your fluency better or worse? Does it makes a difference who you are talking to? What you are talking about? What actual words or sounds you are saying?
Telling your listener that you stutter may help to decrease any awkwardness in communication.
Are you aware of the kinds of speech disruptions you are experiencing? Are sounds prolonged? Do sounds or syllables successively repeat?
