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I had attempted various forms of stuttering therapy but had found little benefit from any of them, perhaps this was my bad attitude or maybe it was the standard of treatment that I was receiving. In my opinion stuttering is a very complex subject and unless you have had the problem yourself, it would be very difficult to understand just what it is like to have this form of speech impediment.

I spoke to my family and friends about the fact that I was planning to attempt to achieve fluency and they vowed to help me as much as they could. I was aware that was no miracle pill to cure stuttering and that it would take quite a long time; the rewards would be so massive that I was willing to wait.

My self-confidence had been eroded because of my inability to speak fluently and I believed that if I could some how find a way to increase my overall self-esteem that I would have a chance to eradicate the stutter. When I was drunk my confidence would be on a high, I knew that I could not be intoxicated on a permanent basis however.

It was a long road but a road that did eventually lead to fluency. I am now thirty-four years of age, I am fluent and I now do not drink any alcohol whatsoever.

By: blueboy

Traditional speech therapy

I first attended speech therapy when I was five years of age and I was still attending at the age of fourteen. Some would call this slow progress, in reality I had not progressed at all. The speech therapists themselves do not believe that there is a cure for stammering and have not had a stutter. As soon as I realised these facts I knew that this type of treatment would never work for me. Stuttering is a very complex area and I believe that only a person who has had a stutter can really understand how it feels etc.

One-to-one speech courses

There are now people who have overcome a stammer/stutter and now teach other people how to achieve fluency by way of speech courses that are on a one-to-one basis.

The courses are typically over a three or five-day period.

Stuttering therapy dvd, audiobook and ebook

Being 2007 there are now many other options available such as a stammering therapy dvd, a stammering therapy audiobook and a stammering therapy ebook.

Things have improved some what since I was a child!

By: blueboy

I started stuttering when I was four years of age. My childhood and my early adult life were very much affected by this most frustrating form of speech impediment.

My parents, who saw how much it troubled me, sought help, in the early years, via taking me to a local speech therapist. Even now, at the age of thirty-four, I can clearly remember how much I disliked attending these classes.

Possibly due to my bad attitude but also due to the quality, or lack of it, of the speech therapist, I struggled to improve my fluency. In fact as I became older the worse the stutter became.

As I entered into my teenage years, I became more and more frustrated with my lack of improvement via speech therapy and also with the fact that I actually had a stutter. I was starting to feel a little sorry for myself.

At around the age of fifteen I asked a speech therapist if there was a cure for stuttering, he told me that there was not. I could not believe it and my heart sank, I could not bear having this horrible speech impediment for the rest of my life.

At the age of sixteen I became drunk for the first time, it may seem strange but I loved the feeling! I had so much confidence and my speech seemed to improve with every bottle I drank.

This was, for me, a breakthrough. I was able to talk when drunk, therefore I should be able to talk when I am sober – there is no excuse.

The cure for stuttering is not to be in a permanent drunken state but it just proved that I did have the capability of talking fluently.

I then had the task of developing this into a full blown cure for stammering and stuttering.

By: blueboy

The affects of stuttering

So what affect did having a stutter have on my life? I could answer this question with just one word – Huge.

Yes, the impact was massive. Not being able to read out aloud in class, order drinks at a bar, speak on the telephone, these are just three from of a large list of what many people see as simple tasks, that I just found so difficult to complete.

I hated being unable to converse fluently. My confidence became badly dented and I soon became tired of people laughing at me behind my back and at the way people would look at me; like I was some kind of freak.

I had developed the stutter when I was four years of age and by the age of fourteen I had become some what of a loner. Strangely enough I could talk perfectly fluently when speaking to myself.

Treatments for stuttering

For whatever reason, I found the traditional speech therapy to be a waste of time. The speech therapists had no real understanding as what I was going through or how the stutter made me feel, how could they, they had never had a stutter?

These days there are many different forms of stuttering therapy. These include hypnosis, a speech course and also self-help type therapies in the form of an audio book, a dvd or an e-book.

I am pleased to report that I finally overcame my own stutter thirteen years ago, at the age of twenty-two. I have not looked back since!

By: blueboy

Around a decade ago, a visit to the local speech therapist seemed to be the only option available for people who had a stutter. The main reason to attend speech therapy was the hope that it would provide some form of fluency and a potential cure for stuttering.

These hopes would basically be dashed after just one visit. Instead of explaining a treatment program that if followed with hard work and determination would lead to fluency, the speech therapist would state that they did not believe that there was a cure for a stutter and that the person should accept that they had the stutter. What great advice!

I am somebody who had a stutter and I went home feeling disgusted with the speech therapy that I was given. What I could not understand, at that tender age of just eight, was why at times I could talk very well when at other times I would struggle to say a single word. Surely if somebody could find an answer to this then a cure would not be far away. The big frustration was the fact that nobody was seemingly looking for a stuttering cure and that they had all just accepted that it was not possible to overcome it.

Despite the negative attitude that I was hearing from the speech therapists, I did feel that I had hope. I knew that these speech therapists had never suffered with a stutter and that in reality they could not fully understand what it was like to have this form of speech impediment, there is only so much that you can learn via a book.

After living life with a stutter for around eighteen years, I decided to attempt to search for my own cure for stuttering and I have now been fluent for the last eleven years.

By: blueboy

My initial search ended up with a huge feeling of frustration and it has to be said anger, this was after seeking help from the speech therapy department at my local hospital. I could not believe the approach of these speech and language therapists. I described to them about the speech impediment that I had and that I was looking into ways of eradicating it from my speech. I stated that I had a dream of one day being able to speak fluently, free from the fear of stuttering. I opened my heart up to these guys only to be told that in their opinion, there was not a cure for stuttering. Shoot me now then! This is what I felt like saying at this point in time but I had to ignore this negative attitude and move on to pastures new.

I then went to my local library and read a few books on the subject of stuttering. These books were interesting but again did not have the answers I was looking for. My mind was now becoming tainted, perhaps there is no cure for stuttering, perhaps I will have a stutter for the rest of my life. At this point I slapped myself. I was starting to think in a negative way and had to snap myself out of it.

It was now time to find my own cure for stammering and stuttering. If I could continue to think in a positive manner and have a very determined attitude, then I may well find the answers that I am looking for.

After about a year of working extremely hard and after a few tears, I finally managed to overcome the stutter/stammer. I have now been fluent for the last eleven years and as a career I now help other people to achieve fluency.

By: blueboy

Before people get too excited, and think that a magic pill has been developed to cure stuttering, let’s first make it clear that to overcome stuttering is no easy ride. Stuttering can destroy a persons self-confidence and can have a very deep physcological affect. Despite this, people who are willing to work very hard, practicing any techniques that they are taught, and who have a determination to achieve fluency, can attain their goal.

Therapies for stuttering

So what types of therapy are available for people who stutter? As previously mentioned there are what some people refer to as “stuttering cure courses”. These can be in a group basis or as most people prefer, on a one to one basis.

Now not every person who has a stutter has the confidence to attend a speech course and therefore may prefer to work from home in their attempt to overcome their stutter. There are now self-help audio books, a self-help dvd and also written booklets with full descriptions of each of the techniques that are taught on some of the above courses.

As you can see there are now a number of options that are available in the way of treatments for stuttering. Each person is different and therefore will decide which therapy, if any, is right for them.

By: blueboy