Anatomy and Physiology of Costal Breathing

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why inhale anyways

From: tim mackesey
Date: 10 Oct 2011
Time: 20:51:13 -0500
Remote Name: 98.88.81.193

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Addressing breathing, speech, and stuttering is brave in this internet format. Until clinicians come to a conclusion on breath support for speech it will always be topical. I enjoyed reading the article and many posts to it. My thoughts here are not exclusive to costal breath and include any "full breath target" program, also. One presupposition is that a human needs to inhale before producing speech. From a rest, without inhale, I can count to 40 out loud. That is too many syllables for me to count tonight. Like timing the stock market, it is extremely hard to time 1) inhale, 2) relax, 3) exhale talk as promoted by many programs. When a pws is feeling anticipatory anxiety it is contraindicated to inhale. Inhaling during panic can fuel a bigger speech block via subglottic pressure and/or pressure behind articulators. Obviously a diaphragmatic breath will be needed at the END of the first utterance. A prime example of implementation is: a pws named David would be better off starting his name using a light tongue contact in unison with an exhalation than inhaling in any fashion at all. Why in 2011 do we still have children being told they have to take a deep breath before talking?


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