How to overcome your speech impediment

If you have a speech impediment you are not alone. Latest figures say that around one percent of people in the UK have a stutter or stammer. This article is about how to overcome a speech impdeiment.

My name is Stephen Hill, I have overcome a stammer which had affected my life for eighteen years. I now help as many other people who stammer to achieve fluency as I can.

When I had a stammer, I would attend speech therapy, at which I would be told to slow down or to take a deep breath before talking. Other tips were to use costal breathing or to prolong my words.

This did not seem to help me very much and after attending these speech therapy lessons for eighteen years decided it probably never would.

I firmly believed that my own stammer was very much a physcological as well as a physical problem as at times I could talk very well, like for example when I was talking to my girlfriend or when I was talking when I was drunk.

I decided to read a lot of books about positive thinking for example and at the same time started to study how good fluent talkers were speaking compared to me. I was basically trying to re-learn how to speak.

It was hard for me to truly believe I would ever be able to achieve fluency as everyone had always told me that you can not overcome a stammer.

After about a year though I managed to overcome the stammer and then started to help other people to achieve fluency.

I have been helping people now for around eight years and have people who stammer from many different countries and backgrounds.

Stephen Hill runs The How To Stop Stammering Centre in Birmingham. He has a number of websites including:

http://www.stammering-stuttering.co.uk

http://www.stutter-cure.com

http://www.stuttering-help.co.uk