My only experience with stuttering was while I was recovering from post-stroke aphasia.
My speech therapist mostly suggested that every time I started to stutter I should stop trying to talk altogether, take a deliberate pause, and then concentrate on articulating… each… word… individually instead of letting my brain rush on ahead to the stuff I was about to say. Or, if that wasn’t enough, articulating each syllable.
That worked pretty well, though it replaced the stuttering with a kind of slow monotone speech that was also kind of embarrassing.
Fortunately for me, the brain damage was temporary, so after a few months of this I started being able to speak more smoothly again. (Toastmasters helped a lot with that part, as did improv theatre classes.)
I have no idea if the same sorts of techniques would work for a less acute form of stuttering, though it seems like they ought to.
Edit Oh, and the other thing that helped was getting enough sleep.
My only experience with stuttering was while I was recovering from post-stroke aphasia.
My speech therapist mostly suggested that every time I started to stutter I should stop trying to talk altogether, take a deliberate pause, and then concentrate on articulating… each… word… individually instead of letting my brain rush on ahead to the stuff I was about to say. Or, if that wasn’t enough, articulating each syllable.
That worked pretty well, though it replaced the stuttering with a kind of slow monotone speech that was also kind of embarrassing.
Fortunately for me, the brain damage was temporary, so after a few months of this I started being able to speak more smoothly again. (Toastmasters helped a lot with that part, as did improv theatre classes.)
I have no idea if the same sorts of techniques would work for a less acute form of stuttering, though it seems like they ought to.
Edit Oh, and the other thing that helped was getting enough sleep.