Secondary Behaviors of Stuttering: How to Eliminate These Escape Behaviors.
Secondary Behaviors of Stuttering: How to Eliminate These Escape Behaviors. Your stutter is multifaceted. It encompasses those stereotypical stuttering behaviors: the sound repetitions, prolongations, speech blocks. It also encompasses thoughts and feelings, like shame, guilt, and anxiety. And it likely includes secondary behaviors or secondary characteristics of stuttering, the: Eye blinking Jaw jerking Tapping Fist clenching Loss of eye contact. The list goes on. Though it might feel like these behaviors help you get words out, they really make your stuttering pattern tense, cumbersome, painful, and full of struggle. In this post, I will describe secondary behaviors and offer suggestions about how…