finding this site

[atrevi]

Guys finding this site, has helped my studder big time. I have a mild studder but it still effects me when iam talking to authority figueres. if any you guys have any certain practices that you have help you guys i would like to learn. Any how i have been to speech thereipes as i child. but everytime i went i wouldnt studder. so i never looked back into it. However i never learned any thing about blocks, or air flow being important in our speech. knowing this now when i feel a block coming on i pause and take a deep breath. even during my sleep i find my self waking up and telling my self to breath as if was practicing breathing therepeis. its weird i feel like my brain is functioning different. We just all need to stay positive and stick together and help one another and keep faith in god.

[Andrew]

Well I found that sometimes it would be difficult to say my own name... but it was easier if I said something like "I'm..." or "Hi I'm..." which seems to work out.

Answering the phone, it sounds corny, but I say Hello once or twice before I answer it, then when I pick it up I say Hello fluently. Not sure how useful this will be at work.

Breathing is a big part of speech, sometimes you take a breath but nothing comes out. The "H" sound is easy to make and can help you along with your sentence. Sometime's I'd try to get all of my sentence out of 1 breath... don't be afraid to take a pause; other people do it but we just don't notice.

Stress and Anxiety... I was told the more you think about your stutter before you speak, the more difficult it is. Kinda contradicts what therapists say about always remembering the "rules" they make up... but oh well, maybe there's a medium.

Diet... I read somewhere on here caffeine can have a negative effect on your speech. No more Red Bull for me :-(

[Perad]

I don't know what a studder is... actually looking at my keyboard d and t are no where near each other... and to get it wrong 3 times...

anyway this site is cool because it puts you in contact with other people who stammer without going through a speech therapist or the e-mail spamming "yahoo stuttering chat".

As for breathing, i don't think that the breathing help's the words out, i think that by breathing you calm yourself down. The more breaths you take the more you calm down and the easier it is to speak. Ofcourse i may be totally wrong but its the way i feel about it atleast.

[Flash]

I don't know what a studder is... actually looking at my keyboard d and t are no where near each other... and to get it wrong 3 times...awww....give the guy a break :)....you know what he meant ;).....and what do you mean d and t aren't near each other on the keyboard? What keyboard are you using? :confused: They're only an inch away from each other :rolleyes: .....but yeah I know it's just a spelling issue and not a typing error.

As for breathing, i don't think that the breathing help's the words out, i think that by breathing you calm yourself down. The more breaths you take the more you calm down and the easier it is to speak. Ofcourse i may be totally wrong but its the way i feel about it atleast.I think it helps with both. When i'm getting really nervous when I know I'm about to speak....like lets say it's in a classroom and we're doing introductions....then I try to calm myself the best I can by taking slow deep breaths to slow down my heart rate. When speaking, I think it also helps to take more breaths because I've been told that my blocks come from me not having enough air.

[cotton]

As for breathing, i don't think that the breathing help's the words out, i think that by breathing you calm yourself down. The more breaths you take the more you calm down and the easier it is to speak. Ofcourse i may be totally wrong but its the way i feel about it atleast.

For me breathing has an big impact on my stutter. I saw a neurologist who diagnose me with panic disorder (never had a panic attack though). He said too much oxygen is delivered to my brain. I did some research and connect it to my heart condition MVP, born with a flawed autonomic nervous system with too much adrenaline pumped into my body.

Anyways he suggested I go on meds for panic disorder like Paxil, which made me breathe in shallow breaths. I felt like I have to gasp for air. This reduces the amount of oxygen to my brain, thus I spoke fluently without any stuttering. Amazing huh?

If you look up valsalva + stuttering there is a connection.

http://www.valsalva.org/forums/cgi-bin/valsalva.pl?#1136