Question for PWS
Hi! My name is Emily, and I am currently pursuing my master’s degree to become a Speech and Language Pathologist. If you have attended speech therapy, was there anything that worked significantly better for you, or did you find some practices to be ineffective for your speech? – Thank you!
Hi Emily! Good luck! Actually for me CBT was super helpful and helped me reduce avoidance and change my perception about stuttering. As far of techniques, I knew all of them well, but hardly ever succeeded to use them in the “real world”.
Desensitisation was a revelation for me.
Hi Emily. Acceptance was a tough, but a major change. As after that I could work on my speech (when I myself! felt I wanted to get less tension in my body), but without the fear of “failing”, as i at least had the foundation of acceptance. As acceptance doesn’t mean stop trying. I means to accept that stuttering isn’t who I am, just something I do. I also worked on facing my fears, Mindfulness, NLP, meditation, and public speaking, (incl body language, Speaking Circles etc). It’s never one thing. It’s both body and mind that need to sync. Do have a look at “the stuttering hexacon”.
Keep them talking
Anita