Emergency Speech Plan

[Anonymous]

What do you guys think of the Emergency Speech Plan?

[Gábor]

I think that’s great, I’m trying to incorporate full stops into my speech right now.

[Javier]

The emergency speech plans are proving to be really helpful. When we are under pressure, we need to keep things really simple, otherwise, in some cases, it can be overwhelming, and we might not know how to proceed. Keeping things simple is usually a great approach in most situations.

Like Gábor said, inserting full stops every few words is always helpful, it keeps us relaxed and it improves our speech, no matter if we are a PWS or a PWSS.

[Amine]

I’m not sure I know what is the Emergency Speech Plan. It’s like crutch 11 ?

[Javier]

Hi Amine. Yes, more or less. The Emergency Speech Plan (ESP) can vary from PWS to PWS however. As you know, in the 3rd Edition of Lee’s Stuttering & Anxiety Self-Cures, he advises that when under pressure, we should go for Crutch 11, right?
But for a lot of PWS we are seeing that sometimes C-11 can be too much for them, because this Crutch consists on 6 steps to focus on at the same time: talk less, slowly, softly, enunciating, pauses and smiling. It can be overwhelming when under pressure. So sometimes it is better to keep it simple: 3 elements at most. The simpler, the better.
So maybe one ESP could be pauses + linking + soft voice, for example. But maybe for someone else their ESP could be the same but with singing instead of linking.

But for most people the best ESP is simply: (1) talk less, (2) linking and (3) inserting full stops every few words.
I hope I explained myself clearly…

[Amine]

Thank you Javier. Yes, very clear.

[Anonymous]

Hi Amine,

The basic premise of the ESP is as follows:

1) Talk less;
2) Stop speaking every 1 to 5 words;
3) Link your words.

Once the above 3 steps are mastered, we can add in speaking softly.

The ESP is basically a combination of some of the crutches, it is just set in a more concreate and easier to follow way.

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