Cluttering: Characteristics Identified as Diagnostically Significant by 60 Fluency Experts

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Re: Self-Awareness activities

From: florence myers
Date: 17 Oct 2007
Time: 14:19:39 -0500
Remote Name: 24.45.108.13

Comments

Peter's words are well said....it takes great energy and vigilance to change the manner in which we are used to speaking. This is especially so for two reasons in regard to cluttering: (a) the very goal of slowing down one's rate of communication is likely to be the most challenging yet most necessary objective for individuals who have a propensity to do everything fast; (b) the symptoms of cluttering are multifaceted and interactive. Whereas someone who is working on a lisp has only to monitor and change the way he articulates the /s/, the person who clutters needs to modculate and modify just about all levels of communnication....from his thinking pattern,to strands of his narrative, to encoding individual thoughts into appropriate syntax and semantics, to articulation...all the while monitoring (hopefully) feedback from the listener. The very act of trying to slow down is "going against the grain" for someone whose temperament is more quickly paced. It is a wonder that not more of us have difficulty communicating when one realizes how complex this process is!


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