Combining The Jump with Orchestral Speech Paul Brocklehurst PhD The Stammering Self-Empowerment Programme C.I.C. All educational and teaching materials developed by The Stammering Self-Empowerment Programme C.I.C are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be obtained on request. For details, see Stammering Self-Empowerment Programme C.I.CCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licensewww.stammeringresearch.org/copyright.htm

In everyday speaking situations... Just focus on what you want to say. Don’t worry about how it will come out. When you get stuck on a sound – Use The Jump to get going again If, after using The Jump, the listener hasn’t understood you – Use Orchestral Speech

If the listener has not understood you... Go back to a suitable point, remember the exact words you just tried to say Decide the exact rhythm with which you want to say them – don’t change any of the words! Say the utterance exactly as planned – using orchestral speech – Just as you would sing the line of a song. – Give highest priority to maintaining the intended forward flow, even if some syllables come out wrong, or get missed out.

Practice integrating The Jump and Orchestral Speech Do this with a conversation partner Read and/or chat to your conversation partner using the Jump if you get stuck on any words. Before starting, instruct him/her to occasionally interrupt you, with something like... “sorry, I missed that, could you repeat it?” Whenever the conversation partner doesn’t understand you, repeat the phrase using Orchestral Speech

Combining the jump with other fluency shaping techniques If the listener hasn’t understood you... Normally we recommend using Orchestral Speech to repeat the phrase. However, you can use other (more powerful) fluency-shaping techniques to repeat the phrase – Syllable timed speech – Prolonged speech