DrLove
08-31-2005, 10:06 AM
TIP (No.1) FOR STUTTERINF TREATMENT / CONTROL :
1. Be Open
· Write down your thoughts in a diary or notebook
· Tell people you are going through a bad patch
· Be open about your feelings
· Be open about the fact that you stammer
2. Avoidance
· It is OK to avoid from time to time
· Keep pushing yourself, do not avoid
3. Speech
· Focus on how you form the beginning of the next word
· Slow down, pause & breathe
· Remember your techniques
4. Don’t Worry
· Don’t worry about stammering
· Don’t be too hard on yourself, it’s okay to stammer
5. Others
· Self monitoring
· Get enough sleep
· Relax & smile when blocking
· Laugh!
6. Telling Other people
· Write down your feelings & thoughts in a diary or notebook
· Be open about your stammer
· Tell people that you are going through a bad patch
· Remember we all have the right to stammer & to be listened to
7. Speech Tips
· Controlled Breathing - breathe deeply before starting to speak
· Passive air flow
· Stop, pause & repeat the blocked word
· Add a short word at the beginning e.g. “My name is….”
· Tapping or clicking in time with your speech, e.g. with a pen
8. Positive Thinking
· Focus on your good days, not your bad days
· Positive hypnosis
· Focus on things to take your mind off worrying about your speech
9. Relax
· Relaxation Tapes
· Say to yourself “shoulders down, relax”
10. Others
· Less avoidance, but allow yourself the right to avoid if you are particularly tired or stressed
· Slow down, - not just your speech
· Never think it is important to be liked
· Exercise - helps to re-analyse things in your mind
· Never give up!
TIPS (NO.2) FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT / CONTROL :
1. First and foremost, you must be willing to change your attitude towards your stammer. You need to be open about the fact that you stammer. Do it without shame or embarrassment.
2. Make a habit of always talking slowly and deliberately whether you stammer or not. Remove yourself from any time pressure. When you start to talk, do it gently. Make a point of deliberately prolonging the first sound of any word you fear.
3. Observe and learn about your own stammer, possibly by watching yourself in a mirror while you are on the telephone. Do some of your face muscles tense up as you are about to stammer? Do you try to speak too quickly?
4. Post-Block Correction (or cancellation)
Follow this sequence of steps when you block or suffer a bad stammer on a word:
4.1 Complete the word without quitting or using any tricks to avoid.
4.2 Have the determination to stop after the word.
4.3 Relax.
4.4 Think about what caused you to stammer on that word.
4.5 Think about how you could have approached the word in a better way (e.g. less hurried, prolonging the first sound, softening a hard consonant etc.)
4.6 Mentally rehe how you will say it next time.
4.7 Repeat the word you just stammered on.
4.8 This time do it in a smooth prolonged manner so that you can feel yourself making the corrections.
5. In-Block Correction
This is a variation of the above. When you are in the middle of a block, do not stop, rather slow down and let the block run its course. Deliberately make a prolongation of what you are saying. This should give you some feeling of control over your block. Depending on your particular type od stammering, you will be slowing down any repetition , or changing repetition to smooth prolongation, or pulling out of a fixation as you ease your way out of the block.
6. Pre-Block Correction
Having mastered the above two techniques, the final goal is now to make preparations to forestall your stammering before it happens.
7. Pause before your feared word. The brief pause will convince both you and your listener that you are determined to be in control of the situation.
Follow the sequence of actions from the Post-Block correction when repeating the difficult word, only this time you are saying it for the first time.
TIPS (NO.3) FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT :-
1. Self-confidence is key to fluency, without self-confidence there is no way you can stop stammering.
To gain Self- Cofidence:- Talk a lot with friends and people. Encourage yourself to speak when put in a new situation with someone new, be friendly with him / her, shake their hand, get to know them well, and then start speaking with them.
2..Work in a "hierarchical" way if possible. ie. Gain confidence by practicing speaking a lot in situations, which you find least stressful so that you gain confidence. Then try and avoid things like unnecessary repetitions, substituting words etc in more difficult situations.
3. "Fake stammering". This involves deliberately stammering in a relaxed way on non-feared words. It helps in making a stutterer less bothered about people. It concentrates on what to say rather than the stammer.
4. Speaking Circles. Involves a small group of people taking turns to talk on a subject for say two minutes at a time, then other members of the group provide positive feedback afterwards.
1. Be Open
· Write down your thoughts in a diary or notebook
· Tell people you are going through a bad patch
· Be open about your feelings
· Be open about the fact that you stammer
2. Avoidance
· It is OK to avoid from time to time
· Keep pushing yourself, do not avoid
3. Speech
· Focus on how you form the beginning of the next word
· Slow down, pause & breathe
· Remember your techniques
4. Don’t Worry
· Don’t worry about stammering
· Don’t be too hard on yourself, it’s okay to stammer
5. Others
· Self monitoring
· Get enough sleep
· Relax & smile when blocking
· Laugh!
6. Telling Other people
· Write down your feelings & thoughts in a diary or notebook
· Be open about your stammer
· Tell people that you are going through a bad patch
· Remember we all have the right to stammer & to be listened to
7. Speech Tips
· Controlled Breathing - breathe deeply before starting to speak
· Passive air flow
· Stop, pause & repeat the blocked word
· Add a short word at the beginning e.g. “My name is….”
· Tapping or clicking in time with your speech, e.g. with a pen
8. Positive Thinking
· Focus on your good days, not your bad days
· Positive hypnosis
· Focus on things to take your mind off worrying about your speech
9. Relax
· Relaxation Tapes
· Say to yourself “shoulders down, relax”
10. Others
· Less avoidance, but allow yourself the right to avoid if you are particularly tired or stressed
· Slow down, - not just your speech
· Never think it is important to be liked
· Exercise - helps to re-analyse things in your mind
· Never give up!
TIPS (NO.2) FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT / CONTROL :
1. First and foremost, you must be willing to change your attitude towards your stammer. You need to be open about the fact that you stammer. Do it without shame or embarrassment.
2. Make a habit of always talking slowly and deliberately whether you stammer or not. Remove yourself from any time pressure. When you start to talk, do it gently. Make a point of deliberately prolonging the first sound of any word you fear.
3. Observe and learn about your own stammer, possibly by watching yourself in a mirror while you are on the telephone. Do some of your face muscles tense up as you are about to stammer? Do you try to speak too quickly?
4. Post-Block Correction (or cancellation)
Follow this sequence of steps when you block or suffer a bad stammer on a word:
4.1 Complete the word without quitting or using any tricks to avoid.
4.2 Have the determination to stop after the word.
4.3 Relax.
4.4 Think about what caused you to stammer on that word.
4.5 Think about how you could have approached the word in a better way (e.g. less hurried, prolonging the first sound, softening a hard consonant etc.)
4.6 Mentally rehe how you will say it next time.
4.7 Repeat the word you just stammered on.
4.8 This time do it in a smooth prolonged manner so that you can feel yourself making the corrections.
5. In-Block Correction
This is a variation of the above. When you are in the middle of a block, do not stop, rather slow down and let the block run its course. Deliberately make a prolongation of what you are saying. This should give you some feeling of control over your block. Depending on your particular type od stammering, you will be slowing down any repetition , or changing repetition to smooth prolongation, or pulling out of a fixation as you ease your way out of the block.
6. Pre-Block Correction
Having mastered the above two techniques, the final goal is now to make preparations to forestall your stammering before it happens.
7. Pause before your feared word. The brief pause will convince both you and your listener that you are determined to be in control of the situation.
Follow the sequence of actions from the Post-Block correction when repeating the difficult word, only this time you are saying it for the first time.
TIPS (NO.3) FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT :-
1. Self-confidence is key to fluency, without self-confidence there is no way you can stop stammering.
To gain Self- Cofidence:- Talk a lot with friends and people. Encourage yourself to speak when put in a new situation with someone new, be friendly with him / her, shake their hand, get to know them well, and then start speaking with them.
2..Work in a "hierarchical" way if possible. ie. Gain confidence by practicing speaking a lot in situations, which you find least stressful so that you gain confidence. Then try and avoid things like unnecessary repetitions, substituting words etc in more difficult situations.
3. "Fake stammering". This involves deliberately stammering in a relaxed way on non-feared words. It helps in making a stutterer less bothered about people. It concentrates on what to say rather than the stammer.
4. Speaking Circles. Involves a small group of people taking turns to talk on a subject for say two minutes at a time, then other members of the group provide positive feedback afterwards.