Show stuttering
and make it flow
How do I stutter?
- Blockages
- Syllable and sound repetitions
- Respiratory abnormalities
- Movements
How do I experience stuttering?
Linguistic, personal, social failure with shame, feelings of inferiority and failure
What prevents me from stuttering?
- Independence
- Establish contacts
- Act more freely
- Living like others
Where do I stutter?
- when telephoning
- when shopping
- with strangers
- with authorities
The worst thing about stuttering
is the fear of it:
- Escape and avoidance
- Anxiety of expectation
- Brooding compulsions
- Psychosomatic symptoms
What is holistic stuttering therapy?
The whole is the sum of its parts
In this sense, wholeness means: restoration of a whole, completion.
As a stutterer, you may experience your stuttering as something that you can control.
However, it is not some incomprehensible forces inside and outside of me that make me stutter, but I stutter.
This specifically structured therapy requires a great deal of motivation and discipline from you. You can achieve a fundamental change in your speech and open up new paths in many areas of life, almost free of stuttering. I work with a therapy concept that is derived from Wendlandt's stuttering therapy, soft voice use and vowel stretching. You will learn the importance of the non-avoidance concept (i.e. showing stuttering and not avoiding it on the way to modifying it). You will get to know exercises for self-awareness by working on speech and communication fears, in relaxation procedures, in speech pattern variation and in in-vivo training. On the basis of Gestalt therapy methods, you will gain self-awareness in the course of the therapy on body awareness, fear and avoidance, in confrontation with your own stuttering, as well as in group therapy with other people's stuttering, and on social competence.
What is a speech training treatment
Stuttering is a disorder in terms of speech-related symptoms
- the use of the voice,
- of the vocal flow.
If you manage to use your voice softly and then hold it, your speech will be trouble-free.
"If the voice flows, the speech flows".
This therapy concept involves developing a confident way of speaking. This is achieved by gradually moving from an initially "unnatural" way of speaking, which nevertheless provides great confidence in difficult, anxiety-ridden speaking situations, to a "natural" way of speaking.
What is the significance of breath and voice?
The development of this new safe way of speaking is based on learning physiological breathing and breathing support.
- Voice exercises
- Voice flow exercises
- Stretched, slowed down
- Speak
- Exercises in speech melody (prosody)
- Structured speaking
Vowels carry the voice and thus support speech. Vowels are emphasized through clear vocalization (building an expressive voice)
Exercises for self-awareness are
supported with technical aids
(Recordings with the smartphone)
The restructuring of social behavior initially takes place, for example, through role-playing when practicing change strategies in interaction situations that trigger anxiety and stuttering (in-vivo training), and is then transferred to real-life situations.
Close caregivers are intensively involved in the therapy right from the start. In a psycho-social context, you can learn to express positive and negative feelings, make demands and offer or give up resistance. Self-esteem is built up and promoted through:
- Reassessment of stuttering and of oneself as a person
- Thematization and removal of taboos
- Building basic acceptance
Self-awareness processes and supportive therapy should promote personal development, personal and social commitment and encourage you to actively shape your life. Comprehensive transfer support and learning strategies to prevent regression should ultimately encourage and strengthen you in your modified way of speaking. In addition, this is supported by your own recordings and recordings in practice with a dictation machine. This allows you to hear yourself and gather your own impressions.
