Resisting Time Pressure

What do you understand by Time pressure?

• psychological stress resulting from having to get things done in less time than is required

Hints Of Evidence of time Pressure

• Hurrying up after finishing a block

• Answering questions before a question is completed

• Using fillers and starters

• Getting others to take your place

What to do in therapy session

• talking slowly and deliberately,

• Read…pause momentarily (very briefly) between words and between phrases

Homework for Stutterer

• Record instances of how you react to TP

• Create such situations for yourself

• Note words and situations

• Telephone operators, postal clerks, bus drivers etc create time pressure

Pausing And Phrasing :use of silence

• Stutterer never pause for silence except for feared words.

• Lapsing into silence is a natural defensive biological reaction

What to do in therapy session

• Read…pause momentarily (very briefly) between words and between phrases

• Prepare a speech on any topic , use commas and full stops to indicate pause or silence for a while

• Light contact method

• Easy onset technique

Homework for Stutterer

• Prepare five consecutive sentences in which you use commas, periods , grammatical pauses

• Short phrases

• Long pauses

Reduce Struggle

• Stutterer struggles because he tries to avoid deny or conceal stuttering

• This causes muscle tension

What to do in therapy session

• Relaxation exercises

• Vowel prolongation

• Counseling

• Light contact method (use I spy or any other game)

Homework for Stutterer

• Relaxedly stutter (be open and let yourself stutter)

• Write down 15 words on which you stutter relaxedly

• Rate yourself

Stuttering Forward

• Eliminate dead stops( pausing just before feared words)