commentr/StutterJanuary 11, 2023

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>How do yall manage to get through blocks that feel impossible to overcome? There are many strategies in the stutter discord (scroll up the page, at the right side of this page is the discord link). I want to explain one strategy that I found there: **Strategy** 1. Speak 2. if you are in a block and your tongue is stuck, it is paralyzed and doesn't move 3. then visualize that your tongue is hot 4. associate hot with my tongue has to open right now 5. now let your instinct open your tongue, allow your new habit to open your tongue during a speech block Stuttering is neurological, but 80% still outgrow stuttering. Maybe, in my opinion, this strategy could change our neurological habit. My argument is that we learn, by doing exposure, that we can choose/move to open our tongue during a speech block and the more we do this habit, the more we learn the new habit of fluency. Of course, fluency is not a success (because then you get bothered by stuttering and this prevents neoplastic adaptions), rather doing the strategy (to make opening the tongue by choice, a habit) - is a success which turns headwind into tailwind

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Coping & AdvocacyCauses & Variability

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Voluntary Stuttering & ExposureNeurological & Brain