Stutter Therapy Classes
March 14, 2010 by admin
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There are many types of stutter therapy including stutter cure courses or traditional speech therapy. I have overcome a stutter and in this article I describe what it is like to be fluent for me.
I am now able to order food and drink for example, without fear of a stutter, speak on the telephone and am able to enjoy socialising. As you may well imagine life is far easier for me now that I have achieved total fluency – the freedom it provides is amazing. I appreciate my speech compared with the average fluent person, who does not realise how lucky they are. Some would even say that I talk too much, but this is something I will never apologise for – when I had a stutter I hardly spoke at all.
As a person with a stutter, I seemed to accept second best. I left school because of the stutter, dated girls which to be truthful, not only did I not feel attracted to, but did not particularly find interesting. My stuttering mind convinced me that I could do no better. I was unhappy where I worked, but just accepted it; I did not feel able to put myself through the interview process again.
I now run The Stop Stammering Centre where I run one-to-one stuttering help courses to help people to achieve fluency. As well as these courses I also offer a variety of self-help options including the ever popular seventy minute DVD, an audio book and an e-book. All of these self-help options include full descriptions of the techniques which I successfully used to overcome my own speech impediment.
I am more than happy to answer any questions that you may have therefore please feel free to contact me.
I look forward to helping you to overcome your speech impediment.
Stephen Hill from The How To Stop Stammering Centre
Successful Stuttering And Stammering Treatments
March 12, 2010 by admin
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So what types of therapies are there for people who have a stammer/stutter? Well there are many, some good and some not so good. In this article I will describe some of the experiences and types of stuttering or stammering therapy people experiment with.
One of the first places people go to when seeking help for a speech impediment is speech therapy. So how long did you attend speech therapy for? Well the answer quite strangely is 13 years. Why is this strange? Because you would have thought that I would have realised that it was not working after only a couple of years. Now I am sure some people have some very positive experiences and results from this type of therapy, however I was not one of these people. From what I remember the main advice I was given was to slow down my speech and to take a deep breath before starting to speak. When I observed fluent people speaking, I rarely heard them take a deep breath.
Then there is the more alternative forms of health therapy for stuttering/stammering which includes hypnosis. This was something I really wanted to try for myself at the age of around nineteen. Unfortunately each session cost nearly as much as my weekly wage at that point of my life. I never managed to experience this form of stammering therapy.
I now believe that stuttering is a physcological as well as a physical problem. I personally have not heard very many positive reports from the people who I know have attempted hypnotherapy as a way of stopping stammering.
The other treatments people who have a stutter try are speech courses. There are group based courses as well as the more personal 1-2-1 course. With each of these stuttering courses, the person who attends the course is required to practice the techniques to make them a natural part of their speech.
Confidence courses are another form of treatment for stuttering. In my opinion these are of value, however do not cover the physical aspects of how to eradicate a stutter.
Stuttering And Stammering Speech Therapy Courses
Over the last few years the popularity of specialised communication courses for stuttering has increased in a big way. The courses are normally held over a five-day period however there are also a two and three day option available. The courses themselves are run by a person who knows all about the subject of stammering and stuttering due to the fact that he had this type of speech impediment for eighteen years of his life before managing to achieve fluency when he was aged twenty-two.
These “stuttering courses” are held in the UK, in the second largest city of Birmingham. The How to Stop Stuttering Centre has been offering these speech courses since 1996 and Steve Hill who runs them has regularly been featured within the media during that time including a front page appearance on the much respected Daily Telegraph.
Steve has also produced a number of self-help products for the people who are not able to attend a stuttering speech course in England. These include a stuttering therapy audio book, a stuttering therapy DVD and a stuttering therapy e-book.
Steve has recently developed the “stuttering treatments via Skype”. Here people are able to receive therapy whilst watching Steve Hill on their computer screens. This abilty to watch the speech coach describe and demonstrate the techniques is of great benefit in speech pathology.
So what about the feedback for such a course? Well thus far the feedback has been extremely positive hence why there is such a demand for these types of specialist stuttering therapy courses.
A two day weekend speech course has recently been added to the list of therapy options that are available.
To achieve fluency I realised that I needed to start thinking in a much more positive manner; out went the negativity and in came a whole new “I can do it” approach. This really is the only way to go and I only regret that I did not realise this a whole lot earlier.
Self-Esteem Advice
One day when I was around my early to mid twenties, I went to the hairdressers for my monthly trim. This woman enquired about whether I had heard about the tragic car crash that had recently occured. I had not heard of any crashes and therefore she started to tell me about the horrible accident.
Three young men who were all aged twenty-two, were on the way for an evening in the local public house. One of the men was speeding and was unable to keep control of the car. His vehicle had then careered straight into a large tree, all three of the people in the car had died at the scene.
She continued that one of the men which had died, had worked in the butchers, which was only two doors away from her shop. She described the man in question, which turned out to be a person that I knew, just to say hello to. This was a person I would walk past on the majority of mornings and we would say a quick hello to each other.
Later on when I was at home, I started to think even more about this particular person. Even though he was friendly, he always looked quite stressed and did not seem that happy. My guess is that he would have perhaps been more care-free and positive had he known that he did not have long to live.
It should not have taken this kind of tragedy to bring me to my senses, but it did. Morbid as it is I pondered on the thought that we all have to die at some stage and that none us know when that day will come. I am sorry if that is a bit morbid, but it is true. Not all of us will live until retirement age and our lives could end tomorrow.
I have always been a bit of a worrier; mainly about my speech I suppose as I had a stuttering speech impediment. I did eventually manage to gain fluency via an intensive one-to-one stuttering therapy course but even then I started to worry about business; I work for a composite door company and for a business cost reduction specialist on a part time basis.
I now have learnt to stop stressing so much – life, I have now learnt, is just too short.
How To Stop Stressing
I am a person who used to stress in a big way. At one point a work colleague made a comment that he thought that I walked around with the weight of the world’s problems on my shoulders. Things though had to and were about to change.
I then went about reading lots of books about mind over matter and positive thinking.
Panicking and fretting about any given task does in no way make it any easier. In fact it makes it a whole lot worse. The important thing to remember is that in life all you can do is try your best. When a negative thought or worry enters your head you need to immediately ignore it and to change your thought processes into thinking about something which makes you happy or smile. You have to treat these demons as your worst enemy and fight them away. Treat it like a war and be determined not to let them win the battle of minds.
I had always been a worrier; this is something that commenced in childhood probably due to the fact that I had a stutter. I did attend stuttering treatment however I only managed to overcome my stuttering problem when I was aged twenty-two after watching a seventy minute self-help therapy DVD which I bought from The How To Stop Stuttering Centre in Birmingham, England.
I also learned to become a much more care-free person and I also now appreciate what I have in life rather than worrying about what I do not have.
These things have helped to improve my life in a big way; as an example I am now a successful business man selling composite doors and I also offer a professional DVD authoring service.
I hope the above stress-relief tips help other people as much as they have helped me.
Which Is The Best Way To Lose Weight?
I have had many issues with my own weight and have tried many different weight loss programs and diets.
About two years ago I attempted to attain my ideal weight once again however this time I was eager to make sure that the result was a very positive one.
I wrote down all of the reasons I was trying to lose the excess fat. One of the items that I included on the list was about my desire to become a lot stockier with muscles and possibly even a six pack. This I believed would help my self-confidence and self-esteem which were always fairly low which may have been one of the reasons why I had a stuttering problem. I had had enough of feeling ashamed of my weight and fat belly. I wanted to walk down the street feeling proud and assured plus I also wanted to stop stuttering of course.
I used to also eat when I was stressed and I sure had a lot of worry via work which was in the external doors and DVD replication industries.
I wanted to lose weight to avoid all the health problems that being obese can cause, as people become older. I am not sure about you but I rarely see a fat person who is in their seventies or eighties. I am hoping to live until a ripe old age and enjoy my retirement.
Next on my list was about the clothes I wear. Basically I am not able to buy the clothes I really want to as they do not really suit a person of my build. I often look at other people and am impressed with their clothes but then realise that they are a lot of thinner than I am. The clothes may look impressive on them but would not look the same if I wore them.
I also wanted to lose weight in order for me to look more attractive to members of the opposite sex.
The last reason on my list was about my general level of fitness. I love playing football and was a regular in the school football team. I wrote about how I would love to regain my fitness so that I could participate in this and other sports.
Once I had written my list, I would then read it on regular occasions and it would help me to keep motivated. I am not saying it was an easy road, however I eventually managed to obtain a weight that I was happy with.
Eradicate Those Inner Demons That Are Ruining Your Life
I have succeeded at last. At what you may be asking? Well I have been fighting a war with the voices in my head or my demons as I call them. These are the voices which made me doubt myself; voices which stopped me from becoming a success; voices that were lowering my self-esteem and voices which were basically ruining my life. I have now found an inner peace and this has also helped me to become a successful businessman where I sell composite doors as well as offering a cost reduction service. In this article I will be explaining about the ways in which I managed to win this war; ways which I hope will prove to be an inspiration to others.
I had this voice in my head for many years and I was not really aware of the hold it had over me or its true power until the age of about twenty-one. When thinking about it in a bit more depth I suppose that I actually saw these voices as a kind of a friend rather than an enemy. I am very much aware of just how crazy this sounds now.
I was unfortunate to develop a stutter when I was a young child and this speech impediment would continue to haunt my life until I finally overcame it when I was aged twenty-two. The how to stop stuttering had a detremental effect on my overall confidence and was the cause of a great deal of distress. I was more than keen to find a solution to this stuttering problem and of techniques that could enable me to gain self-confidence. This is when I started to really learn about the damaging affect that these demons can have on one’s life.
For many years they would talk to me and would some how manage to convince me to think in a negative manner. I was advised by these most annoying of voices to leave school at the age of 16 and this is something which I duly did. They advised me not to put in for a promotion at work as they stated that I would not gain the higher position – I listened to them and therefore did not even apply for the position. Why was I listening to this demonic voice? This was no doubt due to the fact that I had no other options open to me – or at least that is what I thought was the case.
I eventually realised that I needed to basically ignore these voices and that in fact I should do the opposite of what they had advised. This was far from easy in reality and we fought many battles along the way. In the end I came out of the whole war as the victorious winner. I am now in a much better state of mind to have a positive career which at the moment is within the business cost cutting and front doors sectors.
Be strong, be positive and wage war on your inner demons – your life and your success depends on it.
Important Life Coaching Advice
I have just returned from my twelve year old step-daughters parents evening. It was an interesting hour and I believe my daughter has learnt quite a lot from the experience. The teachers gave her some important life coaching advice which I will write about in this article.
I would have to say that even though she is no genius, my step-daughter is a very capable person – when she puts her mind to it. One of her faults however is that she just does enough, she is not naughty at school but does not give one hundred percent to her studies. This may be due to the fact that she has a stuttering problem; we have looked into the various ways of how to stop stuttering and I am now happy to report that she has achieved fluency after we purchased a seventy minute therapy DVD from a speech centre in the UK.
Before we attended the parents evening we had the opportunity to read her school report.In the subject the exam results were more than positive and therefore a decent report was no doubt due. Not asking enough questions, being lazy, rushing homework, not becoming involved with the class discussions – this was most certainly not good enough and were things that made me quite and her mother quite frustrated.
We were also aware that even though the exam results were good, that they could have been even better as she did not do any revision. We told her that even though she was above average that we were not happy with some of the comments made which suggested that she could and should have done even better. She was not happy by this and had quite a big strop thinking that we were just being cruel. I stated that where I work providing DVD authoring services, I have to work my socks off other wise I will be sacked. I also work part time at a firm which offers jobs in foster care.
She is somebody who enjoys playing various forms of sport – especially running, tennis, netball and football. The first teacher she took us to see was her sports teacher who she assumed would be very happy with her. This teacher first asked how we as her parents thought she was getting on, in general at school. We voiced our concerns and the teacher agreed as she had read the whole report and was also not that pleased with it. “Why do you try so much harder when you play, for example netball, than you do when you are in the school classroom?” What a great question I thought to myself. She did not know what to say and seemed quite shocked. The teacher stated that even though sport is important, the other subjects should come first and that if she did not see a marked improvement over the next few months, that she would drop her from the netball and athletics team.
Stress Management Tips For Kids
Children who have nightmares
There are many reasons why children can start to have nightmares. I have two children, both of whom at various stages of their lives wake up crying and upset.
My young son started to have nightmares after watching the film Lord Of The Rings. He really enjoyed watching the film and wanted to watch it on a regular basis and would even re-inact the battles. The film itself is quite long and he would normally be watching it by himself as his mother and I would be busy doing other things.
I thought about why he may have started to have these type of dreams and believed it was due to this film. I then made a point of watching it with him and kept on reassuring him that the people have not actually died and that they were only acting. Even though it was not particularly humorous I made sure that I laughed when there were the more violent scenes and would state something like “as if that is realistic”.
Children who stress
My daughter at one point started to stress because she was not in any of the top groups in the different subjects she was taking at school. She felt like she was a failure and that we would not be proud of her. I advised her that we knew she was giving it her all at school and that as long as she continued to try her best that we would always be proud of her. But it is a bit like where I work at a company selling affordable composite doors, we can not all be the chairman After all not every child can be in these top sets.
She did have a real issue to stress about – stuttering. For whatever reason she developed the speech impediment when she was a young child and as you may well imagine it had a negative affect on her self-esteem. I searched high and low for ways to help her to stop stuttering and I am pleased to report that she has now managed to achieve fluency. She is now helping people by showing them how to become a foster carer.
I am confident that with the right motivation that other people will also be able to learn how to achieve fluency.
The Best Way To Eradicate Shyness
There were many reasons as to why I was a shy person. Each and every member of my family seem to be forever worrying about something – it really is quite bizarre. We all spiral in and out of depression and basically have a negative outlook on life.
I also grew up having to cope with a stuttering problem which as you can imagine did not help my own confidence levels and only added to what was already the difficult task of mixing with other people. I did eventually manage to achieve fluency but only after suffering with the speech impediment for eighteen years.
I now help people to overcome stuttering, I also work as a web promotion expert as well as advising people on becoming a foster parent.
I have to say that I always preferred to be by myself and was what many people saw as a loner. When I am on my own nobody can hurt me and I was also in no danger of stuttering. The weird aspect was that inside I was a very confident person who was desperate to show the world, the real Steve Hill.
Being shy made it difficult for me to form relationships with women and made my work life also more of a choir.
At the age of around twenty-one I decided to attempt to overcome my shyness once and for all. I had to understand the real reasons behind why I was shy and to deal with each one in turn. I asked myself many questions such as:
Why are you scared of people? This was because I had a fear of not being accepted or liked. They may hurt me by being aggressive towards me or by taunting me about my speech etc. This was me being paranoid, so I decided that if I don’t try, I won’t know.
Why are you afraid of socialising? This was because I did not feel that I had a lot to say and believed people would think I was boring. I decided just to try my best and to see what happens.
What are the reasons for your lack of courage in talking to the ladies? This was because I thought that they would only tell me to go away and that they would not be interested in me. Yet again, if I do not try, how will I know.
I have now come to realise that out of ten people I meet, three of four of them might not like me, but that means there are six who will. There is no place in this short life to be constantly down and depressed. I have to battle against my shyness and break free of it once and for all.
I am pleased to report that my overall level of self-esteem and self-confidence is currently higher than they have ever been. I still have periods where I become shy but these are becoming less and less as time goes by.