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Noticed something, and it's helping

liveya · 2012-06-05 13:44:58

Hello, Been stammering and blocking mostly, since I was 5. I was reading about the valsalva hypothesis. It explains about vowel sounds being the real block and not the consanant sounds. For example P-p-p-peter. Most people would think the P sound is the problem, but it's not because it was repeated 3 times. What's holding…

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05-06-2012 2:44pm

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liveya

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Hello,

Been stammering and blocking mostly, since I was 5. I was reading about the valsalva hypothesis. It explains about vowel sounds being the real block and not the consanant sounds. For example P-p-p-peter. Most people would think the P sound is the problem, but it's not because it was repeated 3 times. What's holding one back is the vowel sound 'ee' which follows. The key, and I've been using this to a lot of success is putting little effort into the vowel sounds that follows, and I've notived quite an increase in fluency, even if it's choppy. Blocking hardly ever happens anymore. I just slur over the vowel sounds now and I don't block.

Blocking is the worst part of stammering, I don't mind slightly slurred speech as long as I don't block!

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