OK, so despite your best efforts, via attending speech therapy, you have not been able to achieve fluency. So what are your options now? Where now should or could you turn to continue your attempts to stop stuttering?
Well before I start to write about some potential answers to the above questions I should really introduce myself. I am Steve Hill, a speech coach from England. I am not a speech and language therapist and I do not want to be one. I offer an alternative therapy for stuttering and one that works.
I started to stutter when I was a four year old; there was no real trigger or reason as to why it had developed. I attended speech and language therapy via my local hospital. It was of use, possibly even of benefit, however it never really offered me the solutions to stammering/stuttering that I was looking for.
The majority of the speech and language therapists were nice enough people and certainly tried their best to help me; it was just that the training that they had been provided with was less than adequate.
There was one especially frustrating moment when I was speaking with a not so nice speech therapist. He stated that there was not a known cure for stuttering. I replied:
“Fair enough. So how are you of the speech and language profession as a whole getting on in finding a cure?”
Speech therapist:
“Ermm, well nothing”
Me
“OK, that’s all very positive! NOT!”
For me the above example summed up my experience of speech therapy.
I was eventually able to realise my dream of overcoming my stutter when I was aged 22 and as a career I now help other people to achieve fluency.
As stated earlier I offer the alternative therapy for stammering and stuttering.
I have a website at http://www.stutter-cure.com which has information about the types of therapy that I offer.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Steve Hill, The How To Stop Stuttering Centre
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