Stuttering is usually a clue that F7 and F8 are competing over dominance for language.\u00a0 F8 (the analogue to Broca\u2019s Area at F7) is supposed to be like an understudy for the main character in a play.\u00a0 It walks around back-stage, mouthing the words to Hamlet\u2019s soliloquy while F7 is out on the stage declaiming it.\u00a0 When F8 loses sight of that role, it stands in the wings and speaks the lines in full voice, causing poor F7 to become confused.\u00a0 In short, F7 and F8 are both sending orders to the vocal apparatus to say the same thing; it\u2019s F7\u2019s job, so its signals get there a bit faster than F8\u2019s and the vocal apparatus starts to speak, then starts again and trips on itself.\u00a0 The result is mixed messages reaching the speech areas resulting in false starts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Try doing an assessment task at F7 and F8 to see which activates with a reading aloud task.\u00a0 Training beta at F7 often helps.\u00a0 I like F7\/A1 or F7\/CP5, 15-18 Hz up and 2-5 Hz down (unless you are working with a younger child).\u00a0 Sometimes training F7\/F8 in one channel (a bipolar montage) can also be helpful.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Look at both sites. If F8 is highly activated (more fast activity than F7 or about the same), you might quiet F8 or activate F7.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Stuttering often resolves very quickly. \u00a0 Since F7 is also related to control of physical and verbal impulsivity and F8 with emotional regulation and social inhibition, training in those sites can have some nice \u201cside-effects\u201d as well.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Stuttering Stuttering is usually a clue that F7 and F8 are competing over dominance for language.\u00a0 F8 (the analogue to Broca\u2019s Area at F7) is supposed to be like an understudy for the main character in a play.\u00a0 It walks around back-stage, mouthing the words to Hamlet\u2019s soliloquy while F7 is out on the stage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":307,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"topic":[775],"class_list":["post-39359","answer","type-answer","status-publish","hentry","answer_topic-library-of-symptoms-problems-and-goals"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n