| Many incidents of stuttering crop up early in ones | | | | exhalations with speaking will be helpful, as well as |
| life, but tend to disappear by the time the | | | | procedures to relax the vocal chords before |
| teenage years roll around. A stutter can be cute | | | | speaking. |
| or endearing, especially in children, or in the more | | | | Of course, it might take some time to improve |
| nebbish heroes of romantic comedies often linked | | | | breathing patterns so that speech-breath |
| to stress breathing. However, there are some | | | | coordination becomes habitual, instead of |
| situations in which you do not want to convey | | | | something you have to keep consciously |
| that kind of impression. Perhaps you are delivering | | | | reminding yourself to maintain. During your |
| a speech, or giving a presentation at a business | | | | transition period, a good lung capacity will certainly |
| meeting. Or maybe, on a more personal front, | | | | be helpful, because storage of extra air might |
| you are about to have some kind of | | | | function as a "fallback" while your nose, mouth |
| confrontation with someone, and need to show | | | | and vocal chords are getting used to a new |
| that you must be taken seriously instead of | | | | breathing pattern. You do not want to be making |
| patronized. | | | | yourself dizzy or distracted while your |
| Cases of stuttering can vary widely in gravity. For | | | | speech-related organs are still trying to figure out |
| some people, bouts are few and far between. | | | | a new way of working together. |
| These people might decide that getting rid of the | | | | Stuttering can also be triggered by nervousness, |
| stutter might not be worth the bother. On the | | | | excitement or stress, resulting from anything |
| other hand, severe cases of stuttering might | | | | from happiness to extreme worry. The calming |
| require heavy-duty speech therapy or even | | | | effects of a few deep breaths, or an overall habit |
| personal counseling. However, even such serious | | | | of deep breathing (many, if not most, people |
| cases might benefit from a few measures that | | | | breathe more shallowly than they should) can help |
| the person can take himself or herself. Expert | | | | soothe frazzled nerves. If you feel especially |
| help cannot accomplish the entire task for you, | | | | nervous due to your current situation, do a few |
| and you will most likely be expected to do some | | | | repetitions of your favorite breathing exercise |
| work on your own. | | | | before you speak. |
| Stuttering often happens when people have | | | | In extreme cases, proper breathing might not be |
| trouble coordinating their speech with their | | | | enough to cure your stuttering. However, it will be |
| breathing leading in many cases to stress | | | | an integral part of your treatment process. |
| breathing. In many cases, breathing is too quick | | | | Whether you have decided to attend to your |
| and shallow, or even a little erratic, so it is difficult | | | | stutter on your own, or will be seeking assistance, |
| to speak "around" the breaths. Stutterers might | | | | do look up exercises that can improve the |
| even try to separate the two activities, holding | | | | breathing pattern you use when you speak, and |
| their breath whenever they try to speak. | | | | can improve your lung capacity overall. |
| Breathing exercises to coordinate inhalations and | | | | |