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How To Stop Stuttering for Adults and Teens

 

How to stop stuttering requires replacing stuttering with a new way of talking that is incompatible with stuttering. The tricks you use to hide your stuttering, like changing words to say easier sounds or using gestures and starter sounds, are no longer necessary. You say exactly what you want to say  – anytime, anywhere.

 

How To Stop Stuttering

Intensive Therapy – 14 days

 Spend the first 2 weeks learning how to talk without stuttering – this is the Intensive Therapy Phase. You learn to start with a slow speaking rate where you don’t stutter at all – even on the first day of treatment We use the Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) to control the reate of your speech. Gradually, you move the rate faster until you’re speaking at a normal speaking rate without stuttering. Then you need to start using your new speech in the real world – the Transfer Phase – speaking without stuttering at home and work.

Transfer Phase – 3 – 6 months

You can’t do this all at once. You’ll have to gradually replace your old speech with this new stutter-free way of talking. You start with easy speaking situations where you feel the most comfortable. The specialist will help you every week on the phone so you can move to more difficult speaking situations when you are ready until you are talking with anyone stutter-free all day long.

I hope you are ready to do this thing!


How To Stop Stuttering Tips

Do you want to know how to stop stuttering? It is definitely possible no matter what you have tried before. Here’s what you need to do:

  1. Replace your stuttering with a new way of speaking – that’s why you don’t stutter when you sing.
  2. Use pausing to break up what you are saying into short phrases 
  3. Keep your voice on during the phrase – like singing

You do all these things above when you sing. That’s why you don’t stutter when you sing.

If you could sing everything you wanted to say you wouldn’t stutter – but it would sound really strange!

 

Here are some tips to stop stuttering!

Try just using pausing every few words and keeping your voice on during the phrases.

This accomplishes several things:

  1. Your speaking rate is slower because you pause more often 
  2. Your brain is better able to plan what comes out because it is a shorter phrase 
  3. You don’t overload your brain with too much information 

Take as much time as you need, during the pause, to plan your next phrase.  Don’t try to think of what you are saying while you are talking. Plan what to say during the pause before the phrase.

Try this in easy speaking situations at first until you get the hang of it.

This is only the first step in learning how to stop stuttering, but you can try this on your own.

If you want to make permanent changes, you need someone to guide you through intensive stuttering therapy.

 

Learn How To Stop Stuttering

If you stutter or hesitate when you speak, please know that you are not alone. More than 70 million people worldwide stutter — that’s one in every 100 people in the US – more than 3 million people. They want to know how to stop stuttering.

 

Mark Power

ASHA Board Certified Stuttering Specialist

Hi. My name is Mark Power and for 35 years I felt like a misfit and an alien. No matter where I went, I could not escape my stuttering problem and my hatred of talking. I hated the sound of my own voice. For years I thought that this was something that I “just had to live with”, but it’s not! After Intensive Stuttering Treatment, I stopped stuttering. I found myself striking up casual conversations. Today, I can present three-hour seminars at speech conventions to hundreds of speech pathologists in a hotel ballroom. I say what I want to say in any situation and you would never know I used to stutter.

Most general speech pathologists are not trained in stuttering therapy, yet they are permitted to treat people who stutter. My advice to you is to consult a stuttering specialist who has completed extra training and supervised experiences, in order to maintain their specialist credentials.

Mark Power, BCS-F has been a Board Certified Stuttering Specialist in Fluency for 20 years. Mark was part of the original, Initial Cadre of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association that developed Specialty Recognition for Stuttering Therapy. These specialists gathered to solve the problem of the lack of training in stuttering, which allows general speech pathologists to treat stutterers without advanced training.

Choosing a Board-Certified Specialist will ensure that you will have the best treatment for stuttering available today.

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