commentr/StutterJune 27, 2023

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Yes, I apply this strategy to all words (including words that are mid-sentence): * instruct execution of speech movements, but only if I have placed the current articulator * then I initiate voice onset For example, if I want to say: "*Hello, how are you today*" and let's say, that I experience a trigger when pronouncing the last syllable "*day*" (in the word **today**). Then I consciously (1) 'position my speech muscles' (to pronounce the /D/ from 'day'), then I consciously (2) instruct my brain to execute speech movements to pronounce 'day', and then finally (3) I execute voice onset. Remember, this set of instructions is what non-stutterers already apply (subconsciously) on every sound and word they make (also mid-sentence). Note, it's about replacing the old stutter 'set of instructions' (aka strategy) with this non-stutterer strategy. Ask me anything you stumble upon so I can clarify it further. It's also important to mindfully observe all your secondary characteristics, sensory feedback, cognitive conditions, and other unhelpful behaviors that are 'attempting' to execute speech movements; and then interrupt yourself if you catch yourself doing it (in order to unlearn these right-hemisphere activities). I explain in [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/14il794/tips_to_improve_stuttering_from_the_new_research/) post that researchers found, that if people who stutter (PWS) speak fluently, that they are still applying atypical behaviors (aka the stutter set of instructions) to maintain the forward flow of speech. In other words, I argue that this stutterer's strategy that we apply (even if we sometimes speak fluently) is a negative coping mechanism or unhelpful speech production system. This reinforces feedback control and right-hemisphere dominant speech. This strategy: * instruct execution of speech movements, but only if I have placed the current articulator * then I initiate voice onset reinforces feedforward control and left-side dominant speech.

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Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy

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Avoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & MonitoringFluency Techniques