Stuttering journey

This website will be dedicated to my stuttering journey, starting from the past, present, and future.

A bit of me, I am a stutterer and have been stuttering from a young age. I grew up did know that I stuttered and just thought I was speaking normally.

After I graduated from college and got into my first job, I realized that I stuttered, and that is where the journey began.

I first went to a few speech pathologists, and they taught me techniques like prolong the first syllable, change the way I say some sounds, tongue & lips exercise, etc.

These techniques work very well in the clinic and even a few days or even weeks. Later on, the effectiveness started to decrease. After six months of ups and downs with these new techniques, I called it a quit. It helped me as much as it possibly can.

After I stopped going to the therapist for a few months, I returned to my old way of speaking. From my experience, this traditional way of therapy does not work with me.

A few years later, I met “Barbara Dahm” on her old website, which I can’t remember its name now. I took 5–6 sessions, and her approach was fascinating.

She taught me about focusing on the throat vibration and how to control it. She argues that the vibration is the one that causes the stuttering. I had a significant improvement right after the first session.

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Babara also went over a few other areas, for example, generating continuous speech, breaking down a senstenseces and practicing speaking in a progressions like

1. I
2. I like
3. I like running
4. I like running with
5. I like running with my
6. I like running with my friends

This was almost 10 years ago and she might have developed new techniques during these time.

However, for me. I felt like something is missing. It went really well during the class and looking back, I think it came down to a few things

1. During the session, it’s a safe environment where I feel safe and calm
2. Babara talked slowly which intern made me talk a little bit slower. Hence, fewer stuttering

If you asked me right now, I think the missing part is the practice outside of the real-world situation. If it were to have the real-world practice part, it might have been more effective.

Fast forward to 2021, I enrolled in the MPI-2 stuttering program which I will write about the idea, how it works, and my progress so far in the future