NY Times Health:
At 60, He Learned to Sing So He Could Learn to Talk. Everything old is new again. Singing has helped many with speech disfluencies over the years. Carly Simon was one of the rare female stutterers (more men statistically than women), who adopted singing as a method to fluency. It also teaches breath control ... oh so important ... and leads one towards legato speech (turning on the breath, using that breath for entire phrase, softening consonants if necessary). Rhythmic tapping can help, but therapists can go a little nuts with it. Once upon a time, they had stutterers swinging dumbbells while reciting.
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