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From: Kevin Eldridge
Date: 13 Oct 2010
Time: 14:57:51 -0500
Remote Name: 64.134.34.14
Em, It's an interesting thought, but I'm going to agree with Lynne on this one. People who stutter do enough weird things (I know I did) without adding something else to their repertoire. My guess it that this might help for a short time as a distractor. Eventually it will cease to work, but may become part of the persons speaking pattern. Now they are mouthing words before they stutter. Even it would help though, one would have to ask if this is a good strategy. We'd be replacing one weird behavior with another. When I was growing up, I often used an English accent at a drive through. When friends were in the car, I used more of a Monty Python dialect so that they thought I was being funny. I did this because I knew it was weird. This is also why though I knew I wouldn't stutter if I used an accent, I didn't do it with people who knew me. They'd wonder what I was doing.