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From: Greg S
Date: 21 Oct 2007
Time: 20:10:05 -0500
Remote Name: 207.68.248.51
Hi Jiri. I didn't want to suggest that "bouncing" is the *best* stuttering treatment, but it certainly can be effective if used appropriately. Based on your previous post, it seems that you have difficulty on initial (i.e., pre-vocalic) plosive sounds--which is something that I can identify with. So if you bounce on these sounds, what you're doing (in essence) is volitionally stuttering on these syllables on purpose. Volitionally stuttering with complete gentle control. (And if you don't begin in control--you continue bouncing until you gain complete gentle control.) Another thing to remember is that many people bounce with a central vowel. (i.e., puh-puh-puh-paper.) I don't recommend this at all; what I do is repeat the first syllable as it is supposed to sound (Pay-pay-payper.) Something else to think about is that the bounce can actually evolve into it's own secondary; so if you always bounce twice and then the word, this may lose its effect. To counter this, I try to randomize the number of times that I bounce. It's not about the number of times, as it is continuing to bounce until you've gained complete gentle control. In time, if you integrate bouncing into your normal speech, you'll find that it will scrub away many (if not most) of your older secondary stuttering behaviors (associated w/ the plosive sounds). Hope this helps,