| Don't you think you are too old to stutter? Well, | | | | teaches you to speak with relaxed breathing, |
| believe it or not, some people who are already | | | | articulation and vocal folds. You learn to breathe |
| adults still have this problem. | | | | using your diaphragm, gently increase vocal fold |
| While many young children are able to outgrow | | | | tension when you start a word and stretch |
| stuttering with or without treatment, this is | | | | vowels. You will speak slower but at least your |
| different for adults because this has already been | | | | language is fluent. |
| going on for many years. But this doesn't mean | | | | Should you have a stuttering problem, you should |
| you should give up because there are some | | | | be the one to decide which way to go. Yes you |
| people who do with a little modification in the | | | | will be the one who will find a specialist so you |
| techniques used. But there is a danger because | | | | have the right to dictate what you want to |
| adults who get used to it may soon experience a | | | | achieve when you get help. |
| relapse. | | | | But some doctors will not accept that and do |
| This brings the important question. Should | | | | their best to try and integrate the two. This |
| practitioners who are teaching adults focus on | | | | means combining fluency techniques with those |
| how to help the clients improve their speech or | | | | that will make the speaker accept that this is a |
| should they help the client accept the fact that | | | | part of his or her life. |
| this is permanent. | | | | Some adults have resorted to electronic devices |
| Some experts will go one way while others will go | | | | that are designed to change how the speaker |
| with the other. The more challenging one is | | | | hears his own voice. The three most common |
| improving one's fluency because this involves | | | | are delayed auditory feedback, frequency shifted |
| speech modification. Examples of these include | | | | auditory feedback and masking auditory feedback. |
| easier beginnings, fluency shaping, prolonged | | | | The first two reduce stuttering from 70% to |
| speech and reduced speaking rate as well as | | | | 80% and this is without the use of any training or |
| pausing. | | | | therapy. No studies yet have evaluated the third |
| If you want to accept stuttering, a very popular | | | | device but it shows promise because it can pull |
| technique is called stuttering modification therapy. | | | | users out of silent blocks. |
| It is done in four stages namely identification, | | | | Adults can also take a pill to help reduce stuttering |
| desensitization, modification and stabilization. | | | | which is better known as dopamine antagonist |
| In identification, you recognize the events that | | | | medications. The problem with using them is that |
| cause you to stutter. In the second stage, | | | | there are severe side effects and it reduces |
| whenever you are able to speak, you already tell | | | | stuttering by only 50%. |
| the public already to bear with you because you | | | | Unlike other disorders, there is no one sure fire |
| have a stuttering problem. In modification, you | | | | solution to treat stuttering. The technique used in |
| learn to talk and stop. This gives you time to look | | | | one patient may not work for the other. Given |
| ahead for easier words to use. The last stage is | | | | that you are much older, instead of working on |
| an extended version of the third because you are | | | | fluency or just accepting it, you can bring balance |
| already an expert and you occasionally stutter. | | | | between the two. As a result, you become a |
| There is also fluency shaping therapy which | | | | better speaker with occasional stuttering. |