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From: Emily Garnett
Date: 25 Apr 2010
Time: 15:48:39 -0500
Remote Name: 173.81.117.198
I agree with the notion that it is likely self-treatment rather than spontaneous recovery (in most cases) in "recovered cluttering." I am someone who believes I am/was once a clutterer, and still do it from time to time. When I was around 20 or so it finally hit me after 15 years of people telling me to stop mumbling, enunciate my words, and slow down. I had teachers tell me that for years and just always thought it was THEM not me, or that I couldn't fix it. But as I got older and had more and more situations that I was required to speak, and do so clearly, I just began to listen to myself more, which I still find very hard to do. I am an SLP in longterm care and have to explain things to families a lot re: dementia and aphasia, and find myself HIGHLY aware of my own speech when speaking with families. Not only in the words I use but in my rate and enunciation. This is also true when conversing with my patients. I am naturally a very rapid speaker when I don't pay attention, so I REALLY have to slow down when I'm in these particular situations. I still get a lot of "what?" and "say that again" from people, which clues me in that I need to slow down! Now I am just one anecdotal case, but I just thought I'd share! :)