What percentage of your day is spent talking

[Be YOURSELF]

I've been think of the idea practice makes perfect. Its a fact that nor matter who you are if you practice something over a period of time you become very good at it. e.g. its a fact that a stutter can become a news reader. all that is needed is practice.

In relation's to my stutter i asked myself. how often do i speak per day, i realize that its was very small. probably 1% of the day. I probably speak out around 100 words a day. what chance do i have of improving, if all i do is keep quiet. the stutter remains as it is.

anyone feel they speak quite a lot in a day and it doesn't make a difference to their stutter.? how often do you speak? exclude times when talking to your self

Is there anyone that don't speak at all in a day. e.g less than 50 words a day.

if you dont know, try and estimate your number of words per pay.

[Manofsteel18765]

I agree with Be YOURSELF. I find that if there are times where I do have to speak as much, then I don't. As a result when I have to start back speaking more, then there is more anxiety and stuttering. A prime example is that since I am in school I talk more. Now the summer is almost here, I will do a considerable less talking for 3 months. I am trying to find ways this summer to speak more so I don't have a big transition back into school again this fall. also when I finished my undergrad in nutrition, I worked for a hospital as a dietitian. I loved my job, but there were days that I hated to go talk to patients. Even though I despised it at times, I had to do my job. I had to go introduce myself to new patients and see how that I could help them. I can honestly say that not many patients in the two years I worked there looked down on me for my stuttering.My big problem is blocks more so than repetitions. I have a horrible time with my name. Sometimes it would come out funny and I would have to laugh and joke about it to lighten the mood and put them at ease too. It is all about how you look at it. I am not saying that some days I did not want to crawl under a rock and die. I had those too. The point is push yourself so that you can grow. You will have growing pains, but it is worth it.

[nate]

Yep

I am way below 50 per day. Maybe 20. Not counting grunts(Mmh?, Oh!, Uh uh!, Uh huh!, um...) which are about 90 % of what I say and "huh?" (my fav word).
Nate
Interesting post, lets see how abnormal I am:eek:

[bignick]

My job involves talking all day person to person and also on the phone.

My speech deteriorating or improving is dependant on my mood and also if I am tired.

for example, my speech is really bad today and I think a contributing factor is we are in the process of moving house and I am having to deal with different estate agents, lawyers, surveryors and its a very stressful time..

Nick

[eva]

What is the average number of words an average fluent person speaks per day?

I usually speak a lot during a day and often feels like it doesnt make alot difference to my stutter. How fluent i am depends a lot on my mood, thou i have days when i feel very talkative and at the same time my stutter is worse than usual.
Then there are days when i dont speak to anybody but myself. After those days communicating with another person is very stiff in the beginning. Have to get used to talking again first. Sometimes it feels like its the same circle and my stutter will always be what it is today.

Maybe if i paid more attention to how i speak every day, speak more carefully, maybe if i had a technique i could practise, then it could help improving my speech. I agree, practise makes perfect, but i'd also like to think not quantity, but quality is important.

[nate]

I agree, practise makes perfect, but i'd also like to think not quantity, but quality is important.

True words

[Daniel]

Probably no more than 5 minutes a day. So (5/1440)*100= 0.34%. So no more than 1%

[Be YOURSELF]

Probably no more than 5 minutes a day. So (5/1440)*100= 0.34%. So no more than 1%

Think it will help if you spoke more often?

[Be YOURSELF]

What is the average number of words an average fluent person speaks per day?

I usually speak a lot during a day and often feels like it doesnt make alot difference to my stutter. How fluent i am depends a lot on my mood, thou i have days when i feel very talkative and at the same time my stutter is worse than usual.
Then there are days when i dont speak to anybody but myself. After those days communicating with another person is very stiff in the beginning. Have to get used to talking again first. Sometimes it feels like its the same circle and my stutter will always be what it is today.

Maybe if i paid more attention to how i speak every day, speak more carefully, maybe if i had a technique i could practise, then it could help improving my speech. I agree, practise makes perfect, but i'd also like to think not quantity, but quality is important.

Its good to know the effects of the stutter on your behavior, mind, etc. this is because they also have to be slowly removed if your are trying to improve your speech. if you just work on the speech there is a risk of you reverting back to the stutter, this might explain the ups and downs of fluency. consistency in what you do is critically to maintain any improvements achieved.

Quality in the contents of speech is irrelevant to the stutter. We are capable of quality a speech (Contents), our stutter makes us sound other wise.

Quantity and quality in the speaking techniques is important. you will find it confusing in determining what makes a quality speaking technique. In our case we may see quality as simply just being to say what we want, how we want and when we want. Note that the contents of what we want to say is not that important in our possible perception of quality.

[eva]

Its good to know the effects of the stutter on your behavior, mind, etc. this is because they also have to be slowly removed if your are trying to improve your speech. if you just work on the speech there is a risk of you reverting back to the stutter, this might explain the ups and downs of fluency.
Could you elaborate this for me?

[Be YOURSELF]

Could you elaborate this for me?

for example if your stutter has made you shy, quiet nervous, anti social etc. its a part of your stutter so if you are working on your speech it helps to not affiliate your self to those attributes. my point was if you are working on it and you forget to remove those attributes, it is easy to revert back to the stutter and your old attributes, when there is no consistency in your improvements. Its like gaining a lot of confidence after lots of practice, then after few bad times you go back to being your old self. If you have no attributes like, confidence, sociable, persistence then you are likely to persist