Jp72394
05-01-2010, 10:42 AM
I've been reading some posts on here, and one of them, "My Solution to Stuttering" by tyty101 has related to something that has happened to me. Yesterday, I had to do a dreaded task...reading in Language Arts class. She was picking randomly, so my heart was racing and beating, and since the class has laughed at my previous attempts at reading, I was a nervous wreck.
She called on me, and I didn't know what to do, but then an idea came to me from music class! I could speak when my teacher set a metronome device on the table and asked us to repeat the words of a song, so I decided to apply that. So I basically read like And-he-said-that...basically following a rhythm, and I did not stutter once. It also benefited me socially, as my peers thought that I was only trying to be funny, and that's why they were laughing this time (and I laughed along with them!)
If we can use this type of speaking in as much situations as possible, and then lengthen out to rhythm to two, instead of one word a beat, and even more over a period of time, then we can retrain our brain to speak in the "natural rhythm" tyty101 mentioned, and then we should be able to keep that rhythm subconsciously, and therefore, cure our stuttering problem. From this day onwards, I will try this method out, and see if I can truly cure myself of this affliction.
She called on me, and I didn't know what to do, but then an idea came to me from music class! I could speak when my teacher set a metronome device on the table and asked us to repeat the words of a song, so I decided to apply that. So I basically read like And-he-said-that...basically following a rhythm, and I did not stutter once. It also benefited me socially, as my peers thought that I was only trying to be funny, and that's why they were laughing this time (and I laughed along with them!)
If we can use this type of speaking in as much situations as possible, and then lengthen out to rhythm to two, instead of one word a beat, and even more over a period of time, then we can retrain our brain to speak in the "natural rhythm" tyty101 mentioned, and then we should be able to keep that rhythm subconsciously, and therefore, cure our stuttering problem. From this day onwards, I will try this method out, and see if I can truly cure myself of this affliction.