Pausing and Stutttering

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Re: very helpful ideas

From: Peter Reitzes
Date: 02 Oct 2009
Time: 08:12:31 -0500
Remote Name: 165.155.192.75

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Karen, thanks. Yes, many speech therapists encourage families to use pausing. Sometimes pausing is used to reduce the rate of talking. Many parents are also encouraged to take a pause before answering a question to reduce the rapid fire back and forth of communication with their child. I absolutely talk about preparatory sets with some children who are of 10 or 11 (and younger), although I don’t use the term. We may call it, “preparing to speak” or “ice skating into words” or any other term the child chooses. One 9 year old I worked with calls it “sliming” her words. Age is really not a concern with me. For example, some children who are 7 or 8 understand the concept of preparatory sets while some older children struggle with it. Before working on preparatory sets, I work on making sure that my students understand speech production - see this activity: http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad11/papers/therapy11/reitzes11.html Then we use this understanding of speech production to practice preparatory sets. For example, I may get stuck on the word “baseball” with an open mouth posture and I will ask my student “How should I prepare to say baseball?” The student tells me how to prepare my articulators to say the letter “b” and then I say the word baseball while gently initiating the b. Then, for example, if the child gets stuck saying the word “French fries” with an open mouth posture (such as making a vowel sound instead of the “f” sound), I ask the child to prepare to say the letter “f” and then say the word French fries.


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