Pseudostutter
Pseudostuttering (also called mimicked stuttering) is used as part of speech therapy stuttering according to Charles Van Riper . Here, stuttering symptoms in a casual and uninhibited style imitated. This is used to consciously deal with stuttering and to reduce the fear and feelings of shame that are often present with stuttering.
Pseudostuttering is part of the desensitization phase of Van Riper's therapy. The aim is that the stuttering person no longer tries to avoid symptoms. Linguistic avoidance behavior is often expressed in stuttering people e.g. B. by replacing words or by rebuilding parts of sentences or entire sentences, just so that you don't have to say the feared word. Avoidance therefore severely limits the ability to speak freely and should therefore be replaced by a relaxed approach to stuttering symptoms.
In addition, pseudostuttering is a practice phase in which the stutterer is able to control his stuttering and thus explore it playfully. However, it also happens more often that the stutterer turns from the pseudo stuttering into a real stuttering and is then again in a real stuttering block with all the symptoms.
source
- Van Riper, Charles: The Treatment of Stuttering . Translated from the American by Andreas Starke with Jutta Sundermann. Demosthenes Verlag Cologne, 4th edition 2002, ISBN 3-921897-02-5