A Cure For Stuttering And Stammering


by blueboy - Date: 2008-05-12 - Word Count: 264 Share This!

Having a stutter made my life unbearable at times. It affected many areas of my life; I became quite depressed at times and found it very difficult to get to sleep at night.

Despite attending various forms of speech and language therapy the stutter would just not go away, in truth these speech therapists were only attempting to improve my overall fluency and had stated to me that they were unable to cure the stutter. This was just not good enough, all people who stutter have what the call good and bad days, my aim was total fluency, why should I accept second best?

After having had the speech impediment for eighteen years I decided that enough was enough. It was time to attempt to formulate my own cure for stammering and stuttering.

I started by trying to work out how fluent people spoke compared to me. I concentrated on people who I believed were very good speakers, people such as politicians and actors.

I also started to read books about how to gain confidence, self-esteem, how to handle pressure and about how to become a winner. One such book was about Sir Alex Ferguson, the current manager of the football team Manchester United. These books helped to inspire me and actually taught me a great deal.

By attempting to deal with both the mental and physical side of why people stutter was instrumental in the success of this whole exercise.

It was quite a long process as it took nearly a year for me to finally achieve fluency. After stuttering for eighteen years I really did not care.

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Steve Hill is a speech coach from Birmingham, he has interests in a number of websites including:stuttering,stuttering treatment, andstuttering therapy.

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