What Is the Difference between Stammering and Stuttering?

Stamming is a Chinese vocabulary. Pinyin is ji ba. It is a general term for stuttering and also refers to people who stutter. Stamma is commonly known as the dialect used by ordinary people in people-to-people interactions. The written word is "stutter".

[ji b]

A general term for stuttering. For example: He stuttered so badly that he couldn't say a word for a long time. People who stutter.

(1) Uncommon (2) Repeatable (3) Medium resistive

(1) Physiological reasons. Some people think that stuttering is related to heredity or some kind of brain dysfunction.

(2) Psychological reasons. Such as stress, anxiety, stress. Mental factors are the main cause of stuttering.

(3) The entire language has neurological disorders. That is, the nervous system is closely related to pronunciation, language understanding and even reading and writing.

(4) Physiological diseases. Such as children with brain infections, head injuries, and suffering from pertussis, measles, flu, scarlet fever and other infectious diseases are also likely to cause stuttering.

(5) Imitation and suggestion.

3. Correction and prevention:

(1) Relieve the nervousness when speaking, and pay attention to eliminating the bad stimuli.

(2) Strengthen speaking training.

I. About Self-Treatment >>>>

Maybe you, like most of the 1.5 million stutterers in the United States, cannot get proper clinical treatment for stuttering. All you can do is rely on yourself and use all the treatment methods and related materials you can to make self-treatment.

The first thing you have to do is tell yourself that you need to change all this, and you really need to change the way you speak now. Although it is difficult to achieve this, you still have to devote yourself to it with no slackness. Some people have an unrealistic illusion that stuttering will disappear on one day, and you can't be hopeful about it. Also don't expect that a panacea will solve your problem.

You can't passively wait for a good treatment to come to you one day. Instead, you have to work hard to find it yourself. You have to understand that the old methods of treatment and the efforts you have made for years have done little to you. Habitual forces are always strong, and you will find it difficult to change all of them. Although the way you speak now is not too comfortable, you are already used to it. We always flinch in front of the unknown.

To get the long-term progress you want, you must be willing to endure temporary discomfort, sometimes even distress. There is no free lunch. Why can't you take the time and energy to treat it now, so that you can talk about it later? So how to treat it? You have to completely defeat the world problem of stuttering and solve it all at once. No one thinks this can be done without much effort. Should we start now?

To cure stuttering, a very important premise is that patients with stuttering must be convinced that stuttering can be effectively subdued, and at the same time have a fighting spirit and a hard-working, lonely character. Despair, pessimism, and passiveness are the most dangerous enemies of self-healing.

Second, about our self-therapy >>>>

This book is written for many stuttering patients in our country (USA). It explains in second person how they should control stuttering. We can say with confidence that as a stuttering patient, you do not need to surrender to your stuttering despair, because you can change the way you speak. You can learn to speak in a more relaxed way, instead of suffering as much as before. There is no one way to solve your problem easily and quickly, but using the right self-treatment will definitely bring results.

Experience has made you skeptical of any treatment that claims to solve your stuttering problem. In the past, you may have tried different treatments, and the results have disappointed you again and again, and finally you finally wake up. This book does not promise to cure your stutter quickly and magically, nor will it mislead you. It just explains what you can and should do to overcome your language difficulties. This book provides a reasonable and feasible correction plan based on those proven treatments and procedures. In this plan, you can walk around freely, unless you are in a place where you can observe you up close, for example, when you are on the phone. If you have a palm-sized repeater or voice recorder that can record your voice anytime, anywhere, it would be great. These devices are not too expensive. You also need to prepare a small memo.

Third, the initial cause of stuttering >>>>

It is worth mentioning that there is a widely accepted point of view, which is also quite interesting. The original cause of stuttering did not exist. Many theories have been proposed to explain the causes and characteristics of stuttering. But no theory has been or may be proven. These theories suggest that the cause of stuttering may be environmental influences or genetic factors, or due to the interaction between the two.

Regardless of the cause of stuttering, this reason will not work for you anymore, and these reasons may not be correct now. Therefore we believe that the original cause of stuttering is now meaningless to you and will not affect the correction process you are currently undergoing. What you really need to consider is what keeps you stuttering now and not getting better.

You have no reason to stutter like this in despair for the rest of your life and your career. If other people's treatment is successful, you can too.

Factors affecting treatment >>>>

Before explaining to readers the detailed steps of stuttering treatment, we will discuss some related factors. Because these factors have something to do with your corrective attitude, corrective opinion, and corrective actions, and influence these aspects.

These factors include information on those aspects that have a substantial impact on the correction process, such as how people feel, emotions, stress, distractions, getting help from others, motivation, and so on. First, we point out how feelings and emotions generally affect the degree of language difficulty.

1) Feelings and emotions

Stuttering is not a simple language barrier. It is a complex dysfunction in both physical and psychological aspects. Psychologically speaking, we can say that stuttering is generally caused by stutterers avoiding stuttering at all costs. In other words, it's an incredible joke on the stutterer.

What happens next is that when you speak, you want to speak fluently, so much that you try to make yourself perfect. The more your stress becomes, the more serious your problems become. Unfortunately, the mechanism of language is in a delicate balance. The more you want to stutter, the worse you stutter.

Stuttering affects your mood because being a stutterer is very uncomfortable. Maybe they want to be ashamed of being a stutterer, even if it's not the case. The result is that you are more sensitive to your language difficulties.

It is true that stuttering experiences or being unable to speak fluently about what they want to say makes them very frustrated. As a result, under certain circumstances, stutterers feel very embarrassed and humiliated. They have to endure despair, humiliation, inferiority, depression, and sometimes self-hate.

People's emotions cause them to have fear and anxiety, all of which will affect their attitudes towards others and life in general. Just as a dog's wagging tail affects the dog's personality (Note: I don't know where it comes from, I don't understand), stuttering also changes the personality of the stutterer, but if you are not so sensitive and know that stuttering may It happens or stuttering does happen. If you don't need to panic at all, you will soon become more fluent in your language.

Stuttering fear may be fear of words, syllables, certain people, certain occasions, making phone calls, saying your name, and so on. If you're scared a little less. With less stress, you probably won't have such language difficulties.

When your fear is strong, the corresponding stress will increase, and you will stutter more frequently and more severely. Sometimes, your fear is very, very strong, you will be in a state of frenzy, and your thoughts and actions are almost paralyzed. This sense of fear and anxiety prevents you from entering places that you really like, and your personal experience is much less eclipsed. This will make you feel more shame and embarrassment, you will feel more failure, and you will stutter even more. So your stuttering is proportional to the amount of fear in your heart.

2) Tension and relaxation

Because fear strains muscles too much, muscle relaxation is a major goal of treatment. Nervousness, which arises from fear, plays a key role in stimulating patients 'stuttering and is a direct trigger for patients' language difficulties. If you don't require your language to be flawless, then your stuttering will not be as much as it is now, or at least you will be stuttering much easier.

How does stress arise? It's hard to answer. Hypnosis is said to help reduce stress. If you can reduce or eliminate your stress through some hypnosis treatments, it is certainly very good, but unfortunately, there is no sign that hypnosis has long-term effects.

There is another way to help patients relax. Many patients realize that they will relax to some extent if they drink some alcoholic beverages or are slightly drunk. Although this method usually reduces the stress of the patient, and in most cases the patient stutters less, we can only regret that this effect is temporary. So obviously this method is not recommended.

Unfortunately, we cannot recommend any medicine to patients. Sedatives do not fulfill our task.

It has been suggested that relaxation exercises can help patients reduce or eliminate the tension they experience. If the patient can relieve tension by relaxing the exercise process, and this effect lasts, it is definitely a great treatment. Many people have invested in the research of this topic, and many stutterers have spent thousands of hours doing this exercise, and they hope that the effect of this exercise will be worth the time required for this exercise. But whether the effect is satisfactory has not been proven.

This does not mean that relaxation exercises are discouraging. Because learning to relax is good for people's overall health-even if they are not a cure for stuttering. The basic principle is still: the calmer and more relaxed you are, the less stuttering you will have. That's one of the reasons why we ask you to speak in a smooth, slow, calm, and thoughtful manner, because it helps to encourage you to communicate in a more calm and relaxed way.

More practical than general relaxation is relaxation of specific muscles. If you can determine where most of the tension is, then you should probably learn to relax these muscles when you speak. There are a few different muscle relaxation exercises that will help you in specific situations.

These exercises involve only certain muscles. These muscles include the muscles that control your lips, tongue, mouth, breathing, and, to some extent, the vocal cords. When you are alone, you can intentionally contract and relax these muscles. If you can relax these muscles while talking, it will definitely help you.

We also recommend regular exercises for calisthenics or such. The idea is that physical exercises are not only good for people's health, they also help build self-confidence that most stuttering patients lack.

At the same time, because the body shape training can make the patient tend to stand up straight and chest up. This posture can also help patients develop self-confidence-a feeling that you think you are better than others, or that you are acting like others. Physical training can also help you in this regard.

3) divert attention

If there are ways to divert your attention from fearful thoughts, then you will not think of your stuttering, and you may have no problem speaking. If you can forget that you are a stutterer, you may not stutter at all, but we don't know how to cultivate you to form such a "forgetfulness".

Anything, as long as it can divert your attention from fear, or ignore the threat of stuttering, usually gives you temporary relief. That's why stutterers are misled by some clever tricks, for example, they can speak in a singing way, or follow the metronome, or meanwhile, speak with a wrench, wave their arms, or stamp their feet. These strange ways of speaking and other strange ways will make patients speak fluently for a short time.

When you expect to experience language difficulties, diverting your attention can temporarily cover your fears. Think about it, that's how you use these methods. But this does not permanently reduce your fear or stuttering. These weird looking methods work in the same way as novel corrections work for patients-at least after their novelty fades-if the patient is convinced of its effects and he is vulnerable Implied words.

4) Get support from others

If you can get the help of a qualified speech pathologist trained in the field of stuttering, you are very lucky. However, our self-correction plan is based on the assumption that you do not have the opportunity to get help from such an expert. Even if you do get their help, the success of your treatment is basically up to you.

This does not mean that you should refuse help from others, because you need others to talk to you for continuous practice. If you have a good relationship with a family member or a good friend, trust each other, and you have confidence in him. He / she will provide you with valuable services in many ways.

As an observer, such a person can see or hear things that are not clear to you. When you study your stuttering style (this will be discussed later), when you encounter difficulties, such a friend may also imitate your stuttering style to help you understand your stuttering behavior.

He / she may also accompany you to complete certain tasks, praise you when you go, and encourage you to continue to know that you have reached your goal and give you spiritual support.