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Make your speech calm, slow and controlled.
Slow rate
Start our speech slower, quieter, and with less tightness.
Easy start
Take a breath of air before talking, and keep the air coming out while speaking.
Full breath
Use gentle contact between parts of your mouth used for talking (lips, tongue, teeth)
Light contact
Stretch out the vowels in your speech by making them a little longer.
Stretchy speech
Group words together in chunks, and pause at natural breaks.
Pausing and chunking
Pause after a moment of stuttering, identify where the tension is, release it, and try speaking again.
Cancellation
Catch a word you are stuttering on and slide or stretch out of it
Pull out
Ease into a word that you think you might stutter on by making the first sound longer than normal.
Preparatory set
Use a slow and relaxed repetitions of sounds on purpose.
Bouncing
What kind of stuttering is repeating a sound or word?
Repetition
What kind of stuttering is saying a sound for an extended period of time?
Prolongation
What kind of stuttering involves the stoppage of airflow or sound production?
Blocks
What kind of disfluency is this? "I.........want the ball"
Block
What kind of disfluency is this? "I wwwwant the ball"
Prolongation
What kind of disfluency is this? "I want want the ball"
Repetition
