Hi Gerald! Welcome to WSSA! My name is Javier, and I’m one of the certified speech coaches of WSSA. The phone is one of the high-pressured situations for the majority of PWS. You haven’t said much about your speech when talking on the phone, so I can’t give you specific advice, but I can say, from my own experience as a former PWS and as a coach, that speaking in a softer voice, for example, works really well in these situations. When we speak on the phone, the mic is really close to our mouth, so we don’t have to talk so loud. We can talk very softly, we will be heard just fine. So, make sure you speak in a lower voice register, and keep it like that throughout the entire conversation. This will keep your mind focused on that, so you won’t be so concerned about your words and your stutter. Speaking softly also keeps us more relaxed, and that helps too.
You can find many videos of our coaching sessions in which we discuss phone conversations. Here’s a link to several of these video recordings, I hope you find them helpful:
https://worldstopstuttering.org/videos/?filter_video_tag=phone
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