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From: Dale Williams
Date: 10/9/01
Time: 8:32:52 AM
Remote Name: 209.214.12.107
I’ve experienced this too. I actually have a mental image of an utterance (before I say it) and see stuttering within it. I’ve talked about this with a number of clients who report similar thoughts. It’s as if the stutter is there and isn’t going to go away. In therapy, there is a bright side to this. While the stutter is part of the utterance, it can be moved around within the utterance. For example, if a client has learned easy prolongations, but now has to say ‘My name is Dave’ (where the feared word is his name and the 1st sound can’t be prolonged), he can move the easy stutter to another word and thus not have to experience a tense and unmanageable stutter on his name.
Dale