On Stuttering

Stuttering is kind of a brain fart. I have a client who has a little bit of a stuttering issue, but it only happens when speaking, not with singing. So we change the brain's association to what we're doing. We pretend we're singing, because pitch is pitch, whether you're singing or speaking. If you say "uh", you can many times match it to a pitch on the piano. Not always, because some tones are between tones and difficult for the brain to pick up on. So don't actually start singing while you're speaking, but allow part of your mind to believe you are.

You can also do the stutter part in your head. Breath deeply, slow down the wheel in your brain, say your "uh"s in your head, and speak when you're confident that they will be reduced. You don't want to wait too long, because then you'll never actually speak. You want the time between the "uh"s in your mind and the time you start speaking to decrease. This is how the brain gets reconditioned.

What do you think?