Anatomy and Physiology of Costal Breathing

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fluency-facilitating tricks related to costal breathing

From: Crystal B.
Date: 21 Oct 2011
Time: 13:00:50 -0500
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Your article posed some very interested questions and outlined some interesting viewpoints related to costal breathing and its efficacy as a technique in stuttering treatment. Although it's clear, as you asserted, that more study needs to be done and that stuttering is a disorder with such individual variation that no one technique will be effective for every individuals who stutters, the concept of costal breathing seems to be one which warrants further inquiry and study to determine if it is, in fact, a technique worthy of being added to the general stuttering remediation repertoire. As a classifcally trained singer, diapraghmatic breathing is a technique we use often, in order to get a lot of breath support (through subglottal pressure and the diapraghm's ability to contract to pull air into the lungs without drying out the vocal cords)to sustain various tones. In addition, singing is often utilized as a fluency facilitating trick, used at the outset of stuttering treatment to help the individual who stutters achieve fluency sucess in the short term (and, therefore, add motivation to the treatment process). Your article made me wonder if part of the reason that singing may faciliate fluency in individuals who stutter is only in part due to the exaggerated prosody that it employs. Could another part of the reason that this technique seems to work be because singing also relies on costal breathing to a much greater extent than regular speaking?


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