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Stuttering, stress, and breathing
Stuttering, stress, and breathing Hello all, I had huge stuttering issues as a young child. So much so that they almost sent me to special school. After years of therapy and working hard at it, I g...
This. It's a strategy that temporarily increases fluency, but once your brain adapts to it, you will start to stutter again. More helpful are strategies like easy-onset, pull-out, etc. that can be use...
When I'm having to talk and not stutter, sometimes I lower my voice and that seems to help a bit. Singing also helps a lot. I don't know about accents, though....
Like with any other words you stutter on, I think your best bet is just practicing saying your name by using whatever techniques work best for you....
Yes, of course. I have experienced something similar! I used to hate small talk when I was a kid because small talk meant taking in front of many people with all of their attention on you. Terrifying....
True that. *slowly and slowly...* I think taking baby steps and using small victories along the way as stepping stones is essential to make that significant a difference in one's life....
That's a very good point about the fluency-shaping philosophy (which I am not a huge fan of). Speech should *always* sound natural. It is better to be natural and disfluent than fluent and "robotic" o...
Hi SLP, on a related note, what you're saying is true but I want to also say that slowing down isn't the answer for every stutterer. It doesn't work with me for example, because I'm not going to slow ...
Yes, exactly, you got it. Also, I am not really sure what in particular helped me so much, but what I mostly did was read aloud passages of text and getting tips about breathing/speaking slower etc. I...
I started to speak faster when I was younger as a way of 'avoiding' stuttering, then I ended up speaking fast and stuttering.. not great! Trying to actively speak slower and think about what I'm sayin...
I'm an SLP and I see this in a lot of the speakers I work with. Some people seem to talk fast because if they "get a good start" and just "launch" into it, they hope things will turn out OK. The trou...
I tend to speak very fast as well, force of habit I guess. It's not totally gone, most of the time when I'm nervous it comes back again, but what I found that helped was to read aloud books slowly. Wi...
Maybe when you start to feel a stutter, you speed up to get out as much as you can on this go. I personally speak fast by nature, but the faster I speak, the less time my muscles have to coordinate wi...
[Vent] Interview
[Vent] Interview Currently looking for a new job, ironically in a field that has me talking, presenting, and communicating verbally a great deal. I've been a stutterer since I was a child, where I ...
If I am comfortable enough, and remember to take a deep breath and do all of my speech techniques while also not focusing on what my audience thinks, I am able to speak with pretty good ease. I have t...
Help! Stutterer here about to speak in front of 2000 high school kids!!! Gah!!
Help! Stutterer here about to speak in front of 2000 high school kids!!! Gah!! Tomorrow is my high school's homecoming pep rally. As I was prom king last year (when I was a junior), I now have to anno...
Speech is very context-dependent. Speech performance is often impacted by pressure or anxiety. For just about everyone, speaking in public carries much greater performance anxiety than speaking aloud ...
Haha, I'm right there with you, man. justbuyamac is right: Try to distract yourself, but still listen for your name. Apart from that, say "right here" or "present" instead....
Stuttering is a PHYSICAL REACTION to a MENTAL stimulus: anxiety. When you think you are going to stutter, you get anxious, which makes you stutter. Stuttering causes anxiety, not anxiety causes stutte...
If you find that a particular sound is consistently giving you trouble, try revisiting how you pronounce that sound. When you get stuck on the 'h' in 'here', I bet the block happens way in the back...