Techniques To Cure Stammering



Posted: Friday, February 06, 2009

by Steve Hill
Stuttering therapy

Do you have a speech impediment? Do you have a stammer? Do you yearn to be able to speak fluently? Well if you have answered any of these questions in the positive then this article may well be of interest to you. I am a person who had to endure living with a stammer for eighteen years of my life, the stammer seemed to control those eighteen years and affected virtually every decision I ever made. I was determined to overcome the stammer as the thought of having the speech impediment for the rest of my life was a thought that I was not willing have.

During my teenage years it was like I was living in fear, in fear of stuttering. Looking back I remember having a major dislike for school. It was not because I found the school work too difficult or because I was bullied or because I was unpopular. Despite the fact that I had a stammer I had quite a few friends and good friends at that. I was certainly not bullied in the physical sense however there was the inevitable "mickey taking" with people laughing at me when I was unable to speak fluently in the class. As for the school work I actually found it rather easy, that is not bragging, but I did.

So why, people may wonder, did you leave school and education at the age of sixteen if you were so bright? Quite simple really, as I have previously stated I really did not like school. Why? I was always one minute away from stammering. I entered each class praying that the teacher would not ask me a question, and that they would not ask me to read out a loud from a book for example. It was no way to live and this is why I yearned to be able to talk fluently.

What I required was a set of techniques to enable me to overcome the stammer and at the age of twenty-two I managed to find them. My dream of fluency became reality and life suddenly became a whole lot easier.

Steve Hill is a speech coach from the UK ; he has a number of websites including:

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

http://www.stutter-cure.com

http://www.stutter-stuttering.com

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