Stop Stuttering

Do You Need To Stop Stuttering?

We all have our own private challenges. For many of us it can be health or employment, for others it is stuttering. Stuttering is a speech disorder also known as stammering that 1% of adults suffer from. Most everyone knows what this is, but understanding all that goes along with it for the stutterer is something most people are ignorant of.

There is often a lot of anxiety associated with stuttering. This may be in part because of the social stigma and the popular conception that stuttering is associated with lower intelligence. This idea is absolutely not true, but knowing many people feel this way can cause a stutterer to be anxious and actually increase the problem.

Any individual who stutters wonders what can be done to help them stop stuttering. There is certainly no magic cure. You can't just turn off the stuttering, unfortunately, but it is possible to find ways to decrease the frequency with which you stutter and find tricks to make it less stressful and noticeable.

The most effective methods for how to stop stuttering are those that you practice in therapy. As the term used to describe this type of speech disorder is „verbal non-fluency”, the goal is to work toward improved fluency.

Everybody experiences verbal non-fluency now and again, when we forget what we were saying or take a minute to get a word out, but for stutterers the problem is constant. It may not happen all the time, but making certain sounds, pronouncing certain words can be extremely difficult for a person who has a problem with stammering. For this reason, the approach taken for therapy is to improve the verbal abilities.

In fluency shaping therapy, the stutterer is encouraged to speak at a much slower rate, elongating the vowels and consonants. This leads to smoother speech and reduced stuttering. Over time the speech is sped up to a more normal level, and the individual can use this method in their everyday speech to help them stop stuttering.

In stuttering modification therapy the idea is not to eliminate the stuttering, but to make it easier and less effortful, removing the stress involved and making the stuttering difficult to even recognize in some cases. In working with a therapist, the stutterer recognizes their behaviors and feelings that come with stuttering and practice “voluntary stuttering” and confronting some of their difficult sounds or words. Next they learn tricks to stop stuttering before it starts, stop once it's already started etc. This is called easy stuttering. Then the person works to change their self image from a stutterer, to a person who occasionally stutters.

There are also medications that are supposed to help people stop stuttering, but there has not been enough research to prove that they are effective. Support groups can help fellow stutterers develop a better self image and confidence, which can make living with a stutter easier and less stressful, which is sometimes the biggest help.

 

 

 

 

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