Alternative Therapy For Stuttering And Stammering
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 should or could you go to continue your efforts to stop stammering?
Before I continue to answer these questions I will introduce myself. I am Steve Hill, a speech coach from England. I am not a speech therapist and nor do I 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, via the local hospital, speech therapy. 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 told me that there was not a cure for stammering/stuttering. I replied:
“Fair enough. So what are you or the profession of speech and language therapy doing to find 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 did, eventually, overcome the stammer when I was aged twenty-two.
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 queries please do not hesitate to contact me.
Steve Hill, The How To Stop Stuttering Centre