Life can be tough for those people who have a stutter or stammer. Being unable to converse with confidence, always wary that the speech impediment could appear at anytime leaves one feeling on edge. I know all too well just how this feels having had this form of speech impediment for fully eighteen years of my life. I have however come through this nightmare and I am now helping other people to achieve fluency. This is not some ten minute fly by night cure for stuttering scam that I am sure many of you have seen advertised on the internet – these are techniques that actually work that are being provided by a person with personal experience of the problem.
We all know that the traditional forms of speech and language therapy for stuttering and stammering fall well short of an actual solution. Instead of providing me with any form of real help it often left me feeling angry and frustrated. These people, professionals in speech therapy, just had no real comprehension of what life was like for people like myself and they also had little or no understanding of how to advise people who have a stutter. What were they taught at college or university in respect of stuttering therapy? I used to often think to myself. Not enough is the answer to this question. I would love one of these educational institutions to invite me along to talk to their students about the effects of stuttering which at least would give them an insight into the daily struggles that face people who have a stutter.
Advising people to speak slowly or to take a deep breath before they speak is just not good enough. We need real advice and real help to not only control our speech impediment but to overcome it.
To achieve fluency we need to learn how fluent people think, how fluent people breathe, how fluent people cope with pressure situations and we need to learn how to live in a more care-free way.
This can be achieved with hard work and determination – we all have to fight to kill the demonic voices in our head/brain – the voices that convince us that we are going to stutter and the voices that convince us to accept second best.
Steve Hill is a stuttering therapy specialist from the UK, he runs one to one stuttering courses to help people to achieve fluency.
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