To find the best possible stuttering treatment available, I conducted numerous experiments with my own stuttering. You and I will conduct one simple experiment together a little bit later. As I mentioned in different sections of this site, your self-therapy fails to work because it does not deal with various secondary symptoms of this disorder. This is only one of two reasons. The second reason is every speech therapy creates an “artificial environment.” In another words, you are able to apply all speech techniques perfectly only in your speech therapist’s office. However, you do not have that much success in applying the same techniques once you step in a “real world.” The main reason is because your secondary symptoms of stuttering are kept to a minimum in a controlled setting, such as your speech therapist’s office. However, they all “show up” once you deal with real situations and people.
It is time to conduct one experiment together. The goal is to check the intensity of secondary symptoms of stuttering on your level of fluency. If you are relatively healthy, let’s do some aerobic exercise for about twenty minutes or so. Aerobic exercise can include exercising on your treadmill, your bike or running. Once we are done with aerobics, we will enter some speaking situation. It can be any speaking situation in which you know you will stutter. I know you will find you will stutter a lot less after your aerobic session than you will stutter without it. Please note it is not a stuttering treatment in itself, but it can be easily incorporated in one if you want to.
