Workbook Content

Take a peek inside to see what you will find in the Dynamic Stuttering Workbook.

Each unit is packed with activities that are designed to bring people who stutter on an exciting journey that shows them the why, what and how of speaking naturally. The goals of each unit is clearly defined so that, if you choose, you will be able to create other activities as well that will lead you to be where you need to be at each stage in the process of change.

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Unit 1 - The Dynamic Process of Speaking

Goals	Activities
To gain a general understanding of the normal processes of speech production	Activity 1: Obtaining a speech sample
To gain awareness of how the system generates stuttered speech	Activity 2: Exploring how you produce speech
To become aware of your readiness to change the way you generate speech	Activity 3: Deciding if you are ready for the process of change
	Activity 4: Exploring thoughts that prevent change

Unit 2 - Internal Speech

Goals	Activities
To experience automatically formulated internal speech	Activity 1: Developing awareness of your internal speech
To focus on internal speech when speaking aloud	Activity 2: Speaking silently
To allow articulation to automatically reflect internal speech	Activity 3: Formulating internal speech silently and aloud
To reduce speech related avoidance behaviors	Activity 4: Identifying avoidance behaviors
To talk openly about the subject of stuttering	Activity 5: Talking about stuttering

Unit 3 - Discovering Your Voice

Goals	Activities
To experience your natural voice	Activity 1: Exploring how you create a speaking voice
To focus internally on sending energy to your vocal folds	Activity 2: Generating a speaking voice with ease
To generate your voice as an isolated activity	Activity 3: Focusing internally to generate your voice
To allow your voice to reflect the intonation pattern of your internal speech	Activity 4: Generating voice while doing other things
To develop a new mindset as a speaker	Activity 5: Changing the tone of your voice
	Activity 6: Developing a new mindset as a speaker

Unit 4 - Speech Is Sound

Goals	Activities
To develop your awareness that speech is a progression of syllables	Activity 1: Generating single and connected syllables
To understand the acoustic nature of syllables	Activity 2: Generating syllables in reading and speaking
To generate syllables as an impulse to the voice	Activity 3: Producing one syllable at a time
To use syllables as the unit for generating speech	Activity 4: Building spontaneous speech as a progression of syllables
To understand how various factors result in stuttered speech	Activity 5: Analyzing how various factors result in stuttering

Unit 5 - Developing Ideas

Goals	Activities
To focus on thoughts, including imagination, memory, and knowledge when generating speech	Activity 1: Using imagination to generate speech
To formulate all aspects of language automatically	Activity 2: Concentrating on visual images
To send energy to the vocal folds while developing thoughts	Activity 3: Concentrating on images in the mind's eye
To begin using the new speech production process in various speaking situations	Activity 4: Developing ideas spontaneously
To build a self-image of a person who is able to speak with ease	Activity 5: Spontaneous conversations
To become aware of your progress	Activity 6: Broadening your circles of communication
	Activity 7: Building your self-image as a speaker
	Activity 8: Analyzing your progress

Unit 6 - Putting It All Together

Goals	Activities
To use parallel processing of all system functions	Activity 1: Practicing in steps
To get used to focusing on thoughts and ideas	Activity 2: Pretending to be a ventriloquist
To let go of control over language formulation	Activity 3: Simultaneous writing and speaking
To get used to making vowels as an impulse to the voice	Activity 4: The pros and cons of change
To get used to letting your mouth move automatically	Activity 5: Finding solutions to problems
To weigh the value of changing the way you generate speech
To develop the ability to solve problems

Unit 7 - Adapting To the New Speech Process

Goals	Activities
To gain more experience in using your speech generating system the new way	Activity 1: More experience in reading
To gain confidence in your ability to speak automatically	Activity 2: More experience in spontaneous speech
To self-correct errors with ease	Activity 3: Developing the neural network for fluent speech
To make a commitment to adopt the new way of speaking in your life	Activity 4: Making a commitment for change
To think rationally about the speaking experience	Activity 5: Approaching the speaking experience rationally
To find ways to reinforce your efforts	Activity 6: Rewarding change

Unit 8 - Building for the Future

Goals	Activities
To use your new way generating speech in a variety of situations	Activity 1: Telephone talk
To make a realistic appraisal of the progress you have made	Activity 2: Face to face talking
To make your new way of speaking a habit	Activity 3: Building a new habit
To set goals for the future	Activity 4: Continuing to analyze your progress
To help yourself by promoting an understanding of stuttering	Activity 5: Promoting an understanding of stuttering
To realize that you can continue the therapy process during your life	Activity 6: Maintaining achievements
To explore ways of strengthening and maintaining achievements