I found this and thought it might help.
Hi all
I wondered if anyone could give me further advice. I've heard that EFT is effective for stammering. My 9 year old son suffers with a stutter which comes and goes. Recently it's been quite a problem for him and feels he's being intimidated at school due to this. (Kids can be sooooo cruel at times!) I wondered if anyone has any experience of EFT or it's effects on stammering.
Thanks
Rach
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Answers:
Hello Rach:
I've never used EFT for stuttering, but I did develop a method that worked wonderfully for me and couple other stutterers (I had a SEVERE stuttering problem in childhood, which would return whenever I had to do public speaking in front of small groups: particularly read aloud).
The method is twofold: Take a breath, begin to exhale, and then with the voice in a slightly lower the register than normal, talk as though singing (words all connected while on the exhale). The lower register and exhalation relax the voicebox, and the continuous stream of breath keeps the voice box from hitching at the begining of a new word.
The second method can be used along with the first: alternate foot-tapping while speaking if sitting, and alternate-hand or finger tapping against the sides of the legs if standing. stuttering is associated with speech processing becoming polarized in one hemisphere of the brain: The alternating left-right activity gets the hemispheres to work together, which disrupts the the stutter reflex.
Blessings,
Alfred
Answers:
Thanks for that Alfred.
My son actually mentioned the other night that it sometimes helps him if he taps his finger on his leg or even tapping a pencil on the school desk. This is something he found out by himself coincidentally. It was just that when he mentioned the 'tapping' that I linked it with the tapping technique used in EFT. I remembered seeing a Paul McKenna programme where he treated a stutterer with this system. I also found a few links on a google search explaining how it can help.
The further suggestions you gave may prove extremely useful so I'll have to give these a try with him.
Thanks again
Rachel
Good luck!