Hello from Texas

[DANIEL LASH]

Hello, Everyone, My name is Daniel, I’m from Texas. Javier kindly directed me to this program from Reddit. I am 24 years old, and have stuttered since age 3-4. It’s been miserable, and I am so excited to have come into contact with Javier and Lee. I am a business owner and my stutter has greatly impeded my ability to conduct business, and would have likely impeded with my dream career of Engineering (currently a student).

Anyways, I am so excited to get rid of this annoying habit! I have been reading the book aloud for two days now, and already notice some improvement.

Anyone have tips?

[Javier]

Hi Daniel! Welcome to WSSA! I’m so glad to know that you have joined us and to see that you seem to be taking this seriously. Awesome!

Some tips:

* Make stop stuttering your #1, above anything else.
* Use the Crutches every time you talk, even if you don’t need them to speak fluently. See it as training. You need to practice to master them, and therefore use them more easily when needed.
* Mind training. Give yourself at least 2 daily mind training treatments daily, like Lee suggests in his books. It might take you a while until you start feeling the effects of these treatments, but they do show up. It works. It took me around 2-4 weeks to feel the effects of my self-hypnosis treatments, for example.
* Read aloud at least 1h/day. Do it slowly, without rushing, passionately, like a storyteller would do, and use the Crutches too. You must hear fluency in massive amounts (and not dysfluency) to stop stuttering. That is why reading aloud and speaking in your stutter-free zones is so important.

Come to the SAM meetings and the Crutch Practice Sessions, they will surely help you!

I can’t give you any more specific advice until we meet and I hear you speak (hopefully very soon).

If you have any questions, let me know.

We look forward to hearing about your progress!!

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