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From: Charlton Knowles
Date: 06 Oct 2009
Time: 09:28:15 -0500
Remote Name: 24.244.187.87
It appears that changing stuttering patterns which are the incorrect patterns if we want to produce fluent stuttering/speech has many analogies to other psycho-motor behaviours, and it appears that golf probably mimics stuttering vs non stuttering best. I recently took up golf, aganist the advice of a good SLP friend of mine who claims that he was a scratch golfer in his day, anyhow,the subtlies the correct contact with the ball is analogous to hitting the correct target in stuttering modification. Recently I have been working on trying to stutter more easily and have found that although my onsets are not as hard,(tactilily)the movement (kinestic) from sound to sound creates my difficulty. I have been focusing on relaxation and moving slower through the word. This I realize is the solution,however, the anticipation of stuttering and the resulting conditioned fear makes success more difficult. In lower hierarchy situations the control is much easier. I have a ways to go to be able to maintain this control in much more difficult situations. your comments Vivian and Gary would be appreciated.