Caleb, thank you for taking the time to read my piece and to do the research into what helps. I hadn’t seen the John Hopkins link. I am adding it to my list of sites to read.

I would love to be able to sing my thoughts, but my singing voice is not good. I learned to read music when I started playing the alto sax in grade school. I sing in the key of E flat… or maybe that should be…. all flat. I can follow another voice alright, but I don’t do good on my own.

I hadn’t heard about the laughter part. I will have to try that. I am guessing that laughter relaxes the muscles so the words come out more easily. Same goes for the high pitch — the change in the muscle structure to speak in an upper range makes the spasms less likely. I’ll know more about both of these when I next see the ENT.

I redid the links for the sound files. Thanks for letting me know they were broken. I think they should work now. At least, they work for me both when signed in and when not signed in.