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Stuttering strategies

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  • Explain this strategy: Cancellation
    Pausing after a moment of stuttering happens, catching it, releasing the tension, and starting again
  • What are some non-stuttering behaviors people who stutter might also do when they speak?
    Blinking their eyes, making other noises, stomping their foot, looking away
  • Name some characteristics of your stuttering
    How do you stutter? What are some non-stuttering behaviors you do?
  • What kind of stuttering is this: When you repeat sounds in words like, "w-w-w-water"
    block
    repetition
    prolongation
  • What kind of stuttering is this: When you go to say a word but it gets stuck and no sound comes out for a long time
    prolongation
    repetition
    block
  • Explain this strategy: Stretchy speech
    Streching out your words to make them smooth
  • Pull-out (or sliding out)
    Releasing tension in the moment to slide out of a moment of stuttering
  • What part of our speech machine formulates what we want to say?
    vocal folds
    brain
    lungs
  • Explain this strategy: Slow speech
    Reduce your rate of speech (not talking fast)
  • This part of our speech machine forms the sound from our vocal folds into different words
    tongue, lips, teeth
    brain
    diaphram
  • True or false: You need to use strategies and tools to control your stuttering
    FALSE! We do NOT use strategies to stop stuttering. We use strategies to speak with less struggle and tension
  • This part of our speech machine moves together and apart really fast, vibrates, and makes sound when we speak
    vocal folds
    lips, tongue, teeth
    lungs
  • This part of our speech machine fills with air before we speak and empties the air when we speak
    trachea
    brain
    lungs
  • Explain this strategy: Bouncing
    Gently bounce into a word instead of having tense repeitions
  • This part of our speech machine: is a muscle, helps bring air into our lungs, helps push air out of our lungs
    tongue
    brain
    diaphragm
  • Explain this strategy: Preparatory set
    When you feel a stutter coming, ease into the word by stretching the beginning of the word
  • What kind of stuttering is this: When a sound in a word gets stuck and the sound gets stretched out "I wannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnt to go home"
    block
    repetition
    prolongation
  • True or False: Stuttering can not be cured
    True. Stuttering can't be cured but it can be managed by working with a speech therapist
  • True or false: People who stutter are not smart
    False! Just because you stutter does NOT mean you aren't smart.
  • Explain this strategy: Easy onset
    Start your airflow prior to turning your voice on