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Re: Changing Stuttering Patterns

From: Vivian Sisskin
Date: 05 Oct 2009
Time: 10:53:35 -0500
Remote Name: 129.2.24.10

Comments

Pam, You are making some good observations of your stuttering pattern! The first step to changing a pattern is to become an expert on it. You can do this better than anyone else. Once you observe, consider what you might be doing to prevent yourself from getting on the sound of the word you want to say. Are you holding back (waiting) for the fear to die down and the point where you can easily release? Are you backing up to the previous word in order to get through the more difficult word? Are you tensing to the point where your speech mechanism becomes frozen? In your example, did you consider that you might be retrying the word until you can easily get the second “p” in “people” out? If this sounds right to you, I might suggest that you do the thing you fear the most and get on to the sound you might be holding back from. If you want to change the way you stutter, sometimes you have to tolerate it sounding a little differently, and this would happen if you didn’t restart the word and went right for it!.


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