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Re: changing stuttering patterns

From: Tom Weidig (thestutteringbrain.blogspot.com)
Date: 08 Oct 2009
Time: 02:14:12 -0500
Remote Name: 91.148.103.45

Comments

Ed, I never said it is random spasms. First of all, precisely because the brain has learned a lot of associations that trigger directly or indirectly stuttering (on top of neurological jamming), it is best to ignore stuttering events and try to react as little to them as possible. In sports, the key to unlearn associations / habits is to ignore your old habits as much as possible and enhance and build good association with your new habits. Any emotions on your old habits just signal your brain that it is important. Second, your volcano analogy here is flawed, because an eruption needs to be reacted too or you are dead. But if you don't react to a block or stuttering, you are not dead. Think about 100s bees swarming around your body. The key is to ignore and not to react. Even when one stings you. And moves away. Third, it cannot be as you say a mistake for everyone as I have seen it working well in people. Again, it is a different approach to fluency shaping and dysfluency shaping (stuttering modification), it is dsyfluency neglect and natural fluency enhancement.


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