Stuttering with the word “I”

[Juned Ahmed]

Hi,

I was wondering on how to deal with stuttering on one syllable words. For example with the word “I”, I can say it but most of the time its with a bit of a stutter, some sort of hesitation/repetition. It doesn’t sound too bad, but I can definitely feel that it is not coming out smoothly. Its normally when I start the sentence off with the word but can also sometimes be in the middle of the sentence.

I feel like crutch-4, adding a sound to the word, would help but then it kind of changes the meaning e.g. if I add the B sound, it sounds like “bye”.

[Javier]

Hello! I’d try with intorductory words instead such as “so”, “well”, “and”, and you link these to the feared word. Make sure you hold the tone through the entire sentence/thought.
You can also use modulation, for example.

[Juned Ahmed]

Okay thank you,

What other crutches would be usefull for one syllable first words?

Would you recommend for crutch-4 that when adding a sound to the beginning of a first feared word that we switch it up sometimes, so for example If I say Australia, I would sometimes use the “s” sound and then other times switch to “w” sound, as I know that using the same sound too long in a word can eventually cause you to start stuttering on that as well

[Javier]

If you can’t come up with a synonym, similar word or phrase (Crutch 2), or express the same idea with different words (Crutch 6), the easiest and most effective Crutches are, in my opinion, crutches 1, 4 and 8-modulation.

About Crutch 4, there are many options: long or short sounds, different sounds or introductory words. The ones I use the most are:
– aaaa
– mmm
– sooo
– welll
– aaaand

These are 5 options, that you can make long or short. That gives you 10 different options. And I’m sure there are more 🙂

[Darrell Weinman]

Thanks

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