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From: Kevin O'Neill
Date: 22 Oct 2012
Time: 19:05:04 -0500
Remote Name: 24.18.229.12
No, I hope from my comments here that it's absolutely crucial to work on the physiology of speech: deep breathing, relaxing chest & jaw, vocalization, paying attention to what happens when you block. Slowing down your rate makes it easier to do all of these things too. Your SLP should help you work on all of these things. What I do NOT believe is that there's a magic technique that makes stuttering go away. Russ Hicks's "iceberg analogy" (see ISAD 2003) is valuable here -- if only 5% of your stuttering disorder is "above the water" it doesn't really matter if you're fluent for a while because you'll almost certainly relapse. Conversely when you've dealt with the some of the emotional stuff, and don't resort to avoidance, it's fairly easy to pick up techniques like "easy onset" and whatnot, to speak more fluently.