| Many people are on the search for stuttering tips | | | | speak without triggering a stuttering episode. |
| to reduce the amount of stuttering they do on a | | | | 4. Slow down your rate of speech. Speech |
| daily basis. Most of those people are not looking | | | | pathologists believe slowing down the rate of |
| for a cure, but are looking for ways to help them | | | | speech is one of the most useful stuttering tips. It |
| live with their stuttering. These tips are | | | | is a common mistake to rush through a sentence |
| recommendations from real people that have | | | | when you are afraid you are going to stutter. The |
| recovered from their stuttering past: | | | | next time you feel the urge to rush through a |
| 1. Think about the words before you say them. | | | | word or sentence, try speaking very slowly. This |
| The person you are talking to is not going to | | | | tip correlates with the syllables tip. When you slow |
| make fun of you if you need to take a breath | | | | down the rate of speech, you can focus on the |
| before saying something. Plan the words out in | | | | sounds in the words. |
| your head before you say them, so you do not | | | | 5. Be prepared for people to talk to you. There |
| have any "dead air" time. Dead air is a pause in | | | | has probably been a time when a person |
| speech where the brain is scattering to think of | | | | approached you, and you were not prepared to |
| something to say. Patients report dead air as a | | | | talk to him or her. You caught yourself stuttering, |
| trigger of stuttering. | | | | because you did not know what to say to him or |
| 2. Break words into syllables. The beginning syllable | | | | her. Organize a small conversation starter for |
| of a word or sentence is the most difficult part | | | | situations like this one. Starting the conversation is |
| for a stutterer to say. So, practice difficult words, | | | | the biggest obstacle, so as long as you have a |
| within your own home, by breaking them down | | | | starter, you should feel comfortable with the rest |
| into syllables. Practice each syllable on its own | | | | of the conversation. |
| before combining the syllables back into the | | | | These stuttering tips are suggestions from past |
| original word. | | | | stutterers. It does not mean there is no hope for |
| 3. Recognize your feelings about a concept before | | | | you if the tips do not work. You may decide to |
| speaking. Exciting, depressing, or meaningful topics | | | | see a speech pathologist or therapist for more |
| are likely to be triggers of stuttering. Anything | | | | tips and information on stuttering. Tips, |
| that gets you excited will make you stutter | | | | suggestions, studies, and therapies will help you |
| more, because you are not remaining calm. | | | | control your stuttering problem. However, there is |
| Studies show people who stutter become excited | | | | no cure for stuttering, so try as many things as |
| more easily when they speak than people who do | | | | you can to make living with stuttering easier for |
| not stutter. Before you speak on a sensitive | | | | you. |
| topic, determine if you are going to be able to | | | | |