Mom, I could really do with your help. As you know I have a stutter, it is now starting to really impact on my life and it is something I need to eradicate. For whatever reason the traditional speech therapy that I have been attending for the last ten years is not working. Would you be able to see if you can find if there is anybody out there who claims to be able to cure stuttering? I really need to achieve fluency as it would make my life so much easier.
I remember talking to my mother in this way when I was aged fifteen. The stutter was really dragging me down by this stage of my life and every decision I took was being dictated by the stutter.
Both of my parents understood just how imperative it was to attempt to find a solution to this form of speech impediment and worked tirelessly on my behalf.
As I grew into a man I started to learn a lot more about speech and confidence. As an example I could seemingly speak perfectly well when I was drunk, no doubt the alcohol was increasing my overall confidence levels and my speech improved as a result. By the way I was not getting drunk at the age of fifteen!
This convinced me that there was an answer to my stuttering problem and at the age of twenty-two I set about finding a cure for this horrible stutter.
Overall it took me a year to find the answers that I had been searching nearly my whole life for. You may think that a year is a long time but after stuttering for eighteen years it seemed like no time at all for me.
I am now thirty-four years of age, as at 2008, and have been fluent for twelve years now.
Steve Hill is a speech coach from the UK ; he has a number of websites including:
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