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When someone has a stuttering problem, they can quickly lose confidence when facing other people. Stuttering is a severe condition in speech where someone experiences problems in fluency. Some of the symptoms include facial muscles becoming tense as they try to speak. This is very common to children who are just beginning to talk. Stuttering is a disfluency that causes them to repeat some of syllables of the words they are trying to speak. Although this is normal, the severity can cause concern for some parents.
Stuttering can start in the early childhood when a child is in the developing stage. It has been documented that some children stutter at least ten to fifteen percent of their total speech. It is proven that this does not affect one’s intellect; it affects one’s social state, especially when they begin to date and interact with other people. For this reason some people opt to be loners and just choose a career that does not involve meeting people.
There are many different degrees of stuttering. Some people do not stutter when they do certainly things like singing, but when carrying on a basic conversation they can barely get a word out. There are also those who do not stutter on good days but just start to stutter on other days.
There are two important things that can help someone stop stuttering when trying to communicate:
1. Try to think things through before starting to speak. This will help make you more confident in what you are about to stay. According to a recent study, people who have this speech defect are often more intelligent than those who do not stutter. The only problem is that, since they think too fast at times, their mouth is left behind; thus, stuttering begins. The rhythm of their speech does not coincide on how they think. That is why thinking first is highly advisable. Begin with just trying to slow down when trying to talk. Once this is practiced, speed of speech can be practiced and controlled.
2. Say the words mentally first. Practicing what is about to be said is helpful prior to saying it out loud to others. This is called aural visualization, the same technique successful people are doing when they try to visualize their positive future and success even before it starts to happen. Literally, say the words and hear every single word in your mind before saying it loudly.
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