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  • in reply to: Hello Everyone ! #46729
    Avatar photoJavier
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    Hi Karen. I got your email, but I haven’t had time to read it until now, sorry. I’m going to reply you in just a moment.

    in reply to: Hello Everyone ! #46675
    Avatar photoJavier
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    My best advice, due to the time difference, would be to watch recordings of the SAM Meetings and coaching sessions. There are many where we drill Crutches and Speech Plans, so they should be very helpful.
    The best way to master the Crutches is practice, practice, and more practice. Practice them when you read aloud, use them when speaking in low-pressure situations too, even if you don’t need them.
    And, of course, if you need extra help, you can always purchase coaching sessions.
    I’ve coached people from Australia before, so my morning time is your evening time, so we can make that work if needed.

    in reply to: Hello Everyone ! #46673
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    Hi Kaz! Welcome to WSSA. My name is Javier and I am one of WSSA’s Certified Coaches. I used to be very, very severe stutterer, and I’m fluent now, so I believe that if I have been able to do it, 99% of PWS can do it too!!
    Do join us in our weekly speech club meetings (SAM) and daily practice sessions, and meet with other PWS/PWSS and work on your speech with the rest of us!
    I hope to see you tomorrow at SAM! You can find the links to all these meetings in the “Resources” section of our website.

    Keep us posted with your progress!

    in reply to: ATTEND ONLINE SPEECH CLUB (SAM) MEETINGS #46557
    Avatar photoJavier
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    Hello! First of all, welcome to WSSA.
    You can find all the details if you:

    1) Login WSSA with your username and password.
    2) Click on “Resources” and then click on “Speech Club Hangout & Therapy”, or simply use this link: https://www.worldstopstuttering.org/online-speech-club-for-stutterers/.
    3) Once there, click on “Join Zoom Meeting”. You’ll be directed to the bottom of that page, where you’ll find the Zoom details to join the meeting. If, again, you click on the “Join Zoom Meeting” located at the bottom of the page, you’ll join the Zoom meeting.

    If you need any further assistance, feel free to email me to: javier@worldstopstuttering.org.

    Best regards,

    Javier

    in reply to: Hello Everyone ! #45613
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    Hello Dave! Welcome to WSSA! You’re right, stuttering can be beaten. Many people have done it, the proof is here, and you can do it too!
    I hope you join us today in our weekly SAM Meetings (Saturdays at noon NY time). You can find the Zoom link in Resources -> Speech Club.
    Attend as well to the daily practice sessions to practice Crutches, meet other PWS and PWSS, help and learn from each other!
    Have a great day!

    in reply to: Hello Everyone ! #45540
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    Hello Alex! Welcome to WSSA! I’m Javier, I’m from Spain and I am one of the WSSA’s Certified Speech Coaches.
    We look forward to seeing you at the daily practice sessions and our weekly Speech club meetings!
    Keep us posted with your progress.
    Have a great day!

    in reply to: Spasmodic Dysphonia #34120
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    Hi Brianna. Yes, we got it. I’m going through it now. Today we will email you. Have a wonderful day!

    in reply to: Spasmodic Dysphonia #34107
    Avatar photoJavier
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    Hi again Brianna. Could you email us again the questionnaire. My team say that they haven’t received it. Please email it to:
    support@worldstopstuttering.org and to javier@worldstopstuttering.org.

    Many thanks!

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    in reply to: Spasmodic Dysphonia #34106
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    Hi Brianna. Sure, I’ll check it with the rest of the team and get back to you as soon as possible.
    Best regards,
    Javier

    in reply to: Spasmodic Dysphonia #33350
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    Thanks Brianna! We will contact you very soon and assign you a coach.

    in reply to: Spasmodic Dysphonia #33347
    Avatar photoJavier
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    Hello Brianna. As far as I know, none of us coaches have had a student with spasmodic dysphonia. I’ve just did a bit of research on this now, and watched a couple of videos of people with this problem, to get a better idea. I am going to show this message to Lee Lovett anyway.
    All I can say is that we will be glad to help you master our methods in order to defeat the fear of words, fear of speaking, word-planning and hopefully help you with your problem.

    in reply to: Greeting from NJ!! #32014
    Avatar photoJavier
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    Hello Susan! Welcome to WSSA! I’m glad to hear that you are finding this program helpful. It has helped many achieve fluency and love to speak. I used to be a very severe stutterer, and within a few months I became a PWSS, and now I’m one of the coaches of WSSA. It would be great to see you today at SAM, our weekly speech club (https://worldstopstuttering.org/speech-club/). You can learn a lot from these meetings, as you will be meeting the coaches, Lee Lovett, other PWS and PWSS, and learn from their experiences with this program.
    Please keep us posted with your progress!

    in reply to: not thinking about speaking #31969
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    Hi Damian. I haven’t heard you speak, so I’m just guessing. Those mini-blocks may be because you’re speaking too fast and without pausing every few words. Have you tried speaking slightly slower and with more pronounciation? Most PWS that I’ve coached speak way too fast, and that doesn’t help. They don’t even realise that they are fast speakers, because it’s the way they’ve been speaking all their lives. And there are a lot of people out there who speak too fast too anyway. But when we slow down just a bit, and use C-9, our speech not only gets more fluent, it makes us better speakers than 90% of the world.

    in reply to: Hello from Arizona #31968
    Avatar photoJavier
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    Hi Damian! Like Farooq said, welcome to WSSA! I’m sure that once you master the Crutches, have an Emergency Speech Plan to use in high-pressured situations, keep your mind clean of negative thoughts and keep hearing massive amounts of fluency every day, you will eventually become a PWSS and learn to love to speak anywhere, including public speaking.
    Do keep us posted with your progress!
    Try to make the most of this program. It has helped so many, there is no reason why it won’t work on you. I’d recommend you to watch at least 1 video of coaching sessions every day, to attend to the Crutch Practice Sessions whenever you can, to the weekly SAM Meetings too, and, of course, if you need private coaching, let us know!

    in reply to: Hello from New Jersey #31945
    Avatar photoJavier
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    Hi Damian,
    Thanks for sharing your progress with us. Making the Crutches automatic is a matter of time and practice. The more you use them, the easier and more automatic it gets.
    The more feeling and passion you put in your speech, the less you’ll need the Crutches.
    About speaking to large groups of people, I would recommend you to do it one step at a time. I mean, expand your comfort zones. You may now feel comfortable and relaxed speaking to groups of, let’s say, 3 people (more than that makes you feel a bit uncomfortable). Okay, to reach the goal of speaking comfortably to groups of 20+ people, we need to start working on smaller groups. Start speaking to groups of 4-5 people. Focus on the things you’ve learnt here. After speaking to groups of 4-5 people several times, you will feel as comfortable speaking to them as you do when speaking to 1 person. Now is the time to expand again your comfort zones to groups of 6-8 people, and repeat this process. Then do it again with groups of 9-12, and so on until you no longer feel pressure speaking to groups of people, no matter its size.
    You can find a lot of useful tips about speech anxiety in Lee’s book, “Speech Anxiety to Public Speaking”, only available here, at WSSA.

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