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Advice For People Who Have A Stammer Problem

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Do you have a stutter or stammer? Are you looking into finding out about the latest treatments for stuttering and stammering? Do you dream that one day you will be able to achieve fluency? If you have answered one or more of these questions in the positive then this article may well be of benefit to you.

I fully understand what it is like to have this form of speech impediment as I myself had a stutter which affected my speech for eighteen years – between the ages of four and twenty-two. Just like, probably, all people who have to cope with life in this way I was more than eager to locate a solution. The problem however was the fact that the stuttering therapies and treatments that were available were some what poor.

Despite the negative attitudes of a number of the local speech and language therapists that I went to see (they tried to convince me that I would have to accept the stutter and that I would have it for my entire life) I personally believed that I could one day achieve my ultimate aim of total fluency. So where did this confidence come from? Well I was aware that when I was alone I would rarely, if at all, have any problem in speaking fluently. My philosophy was therefore that if I could speak fluently when I was on my own that I should in reality be able to speak fluently when with other people – I just had to work out what I was doing differently etc.

I am happy to report that I did, at the age of twenty-two, manage to achieve my goal of fluency.

My advice to people that have a stutter or stammer is:

1. Never give up
2. Do not listen to negative people and negative speech therapists when they try to tell you that you will always have this form of speech impediment
3. Think positive
4. Work very hard to overcome your stutter

The Latest Therapies For Stammering

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Lots and lots of people have managed to overcome a stammer. For this reason it often astounds me when I hear people, especially speech therapists, state that there is no known cure for stammering. So why are they being so negative? Just because they do not have the skills to help people to stop stammering does not mean that they should be killing what little confidence that we have left.

How many people have managed to overcome a stammer? As stated in the opening paragraph of this article there has been a large number of people who have managed to overcome a stammer, these include many famous people. Just by doing a simple search on Google for “famous people who had a stammer” will help you to find some of these.

How easy is it to overcome a stammer? It certainly is not easy to overcome a stammer, it takes a lot of practice to enable the techniques that are taught to become a natural part of one’s speech. Even though it does require this amount of practice and dedication the majority of people who stammer are more than willing to put in this amount effort. It goes without saying that to eradicate a stammer from one’s life can literally change a person’s life.

How long does it take to achieve fluency? It is, of course, different for each person however it takes an averahe of 3-4 months to overcome the stammer for people who put in the required amount of practice.

Are there any therapies for stammering out there that actually work? There are self-help stammering therapy products which include DVD’s, e-books and audio books. There are also one-to-one speech courses which are run by people who have previously had a stammer.

Where can I find out about the types of stuttering help and stammering therapies that are available? Probably the easiest way is to do a search on Google for “stammering therapy courses”.

Incoming search terms:

  • stammering treatement siddha

Speech Therapy For A Stammer

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Are you somebody who has a stammer? My name is Stephen Hill and I had a stammer problem which started when I was aged four. After suffering with the speech impediment for eighteen years, I then, afer a lot of hard work, managed to achieve fluency. This article is about the types of speech therapy that are available for stammering.

After my stammer developed, my parents decided that I needed to attend some sort of speech therapy. I attended various types of therapy, some in groups, some on a one to one basis. I was given lots of different advice about how to stop stammering. These are some of them:

slowing down the speed of my speech

costal breathing

prolonging each word or sound

taking a deep breath before I started speaking

I had started in the class which is sometimes referred to as preschool stammering. I was very young to attend stammering speech therapy and my parents were reassured that most people who stammer in childhood soon grow out of it. I guess there is no rhyme and reason to it but I did not manage to just “stop stammering” and it continued to affect my life well into adulthood.

I grew older and then joined the class known as childhood stammering. I kept on attending speech and language therapy despite the lack of progress that I was making. I guess I continued to go to keep my parents happy. This had little effect on my fluency and it has to be stated, that I really did not want to attend these anti stammering sessions. This was because I felt that the people who were trying to help me, did not really understand what I was going through, as they had never actually had a stammer themselves.

I then progressed to the class called, adult stammering. I now decided that speech therapy was not really working for me and seeked alternative stammering treatment.

I decided to try my own form of stammering help. Even though I had a stammer, at times I could talk very well. As an example when I was drunk, I spoke superbly. This was possibly because of the additional confidence the alcohol seemed to give me.

After nearly a year I managed to overcome stammering and eradicate the stammer once and for all. As a career I now help other people to stop stammering.