Dear friends,

I am thinking for about quite sometime about the reasons for relapse of stammering after a few months of speech therapy.Today morning a thought occurred in my mind which I am sharing here. Before that, let me tell about a personal experience which is quite relevant to our stammering.
 
Two years back, I was frequently suffering from cold and fever. My parents were also suffered the same ... may be heredity factor for me also.One day I read an article about hot lemon tea which cures cold as it contains plenty of   Vitamin-C. Then I started taking lemon tea daily. Within about 10days time, I  improved a lot  with only less cold attack. I used to take lemon tea in the office only ie from Monday to Friday. On Saturdays and Sundays I used to take horlicks at home. Saturdays it was ok.... Sunday morning also I felt ok..... but in the afternoon cold slowly started attacking me. When I returned back to office on Mondays and I feel fine after taking lemon tea. For some reason, I stopped taking lemon tea for about one week and the cold caught me immediately. At that time I read an article about Vitamin-C. It has been mentioned that property of Vitamin-C is such that it won't store in our body for more than 48 hrs and hence regular intake
of Vitamin-C is necessary. From that day onwards, I am taking lemon tea even at home and I am free from cold and fever in this December month also.
 
Now coming back to our subject on relapse of stammering after speech therapy, a thought occurred in my mind. It is the natural property of my body composition  to attract cold in the absence of Vitamin-C and I have to take Vitamin-C daily, failing which cold will attack me. By default, my body is deficiency of Vitamin-C for which I have supplement it by taking lemon tea daily. But, it is not possible for me to permanently correct my default Vitamin-C deficiency.
 
The same analogy may be true for stammering also. By default, we have some deficiency and because of this we are stammering. One of the deficiencies everybody agrees with me is our incorrect (or shallow) breathing, which is our default breathing. Here I want to highlight again my personal speech therapy experience.
 
I have undergone a speech therapy at Madurai for one week in the year 2001. After that, I sincerely practiced speech therapy daily one hour for the next 6 months. During that period I was almost became a normal speaker. Then, suddenly I was not well and could not continue the speech therapy for the next 15 days which resulted relapse of stammering that too very badly. Hence, I lost interest in further continuing speech therapy and stopped it. This is the case for almost every PWS.
 
Now I am very curious and want to know the reason for relapse of stammering. About 20 days back, I started the speech therapy again and practicing it daily for about 30 min. I also started monitoring closely about my speech pattern. I found out that I was speaking fairy well till 2 PM...... less stammering till 6 PM....more stammering after 6 PM.... To find out the reason, I closely watched  what is physically happening . After closely observing about one week, I found out that my breathing pattern changed slowly from slow and steady breathing in the morning after speech therapy to fast and shallow breathing in the evening...
 
Again, I become curious to know the reasons behind it for change in the breathing pattern from morning ie after speech therapy up to the evening. At last, I found out that this is the effect of my speech therapy technique. The speech therapy technique I learned is combination of both breathing exercise as well as slow speaking. So,immediately after my speech therapy my breathing become normal in the morning and slowly returning back to my default breathing ie shallow breathing in the evening.
 
Here I want to correlate between my default deficiency of Vitamin-C and my default shallow breathing. Like taking lemon tea daily to supplement Vitamin-C, I have to do speech therapy daily to have normal breathing and also to speak well.
 
May be it is not possible to change our natural default deficiency, but could be corrected daily.... pl read again DAILY by supplementing properly ie by doing speech therapy ...
 
Any thought on this!!!
 
Regards.
Maaaaaanimaran.