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March 16, 2010

How To Eradicate A Stutter

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: cure for stuttering, speech impediment, stutter, stuttering, stuttering therapy, stuttering treatments — jobself @ 7:51 am

Stuttering is a speech impediment that affects approximately one percent of the population in the Western world. A recent report suggested that seven out of ten people who have a stutter are male. Many of the people who suffer with this form of speech impediment often dream about a life where they are able to speak fluently but will this ever be possible, is there a cure for stuttering?

Since the start of the internet revolution access to information has become far easier. Finding relevant and beneficial therapies for stuttering proved to be quite difficult going back only a couple of decades however now people have access to many different forms of stuttering help treatment at a click of a button. By simply searching on one of the major search engines such as Google for “stuttering therapy” or “stuttering treatments” enable people to locate many specialists in this field.

There are many different types of stuttering therapy available. The most popular is without doubt the one-to-one speech therapy courses which are run by people who have previously had and overcome a stutter. These courses are normally over a five-day period however shorter three-day courses are also available.

There are various self-help stuttering therapy products which are ideal for those people who are unable to attend a speech course for whatever reason. The stuttering therapy DVD is possibly the most beneficial of these products however there are also e-books and audio books for sale online to help people to overcome their stutter.

Despite what various speech and language therapists may tell you – stuttering can be overcome. Many many people have managed to overcome a stutter and you could well be the next.

Stephen Hill runs The How To Stop Stuttering Centre in the UK where he helps people to achieve fluency.

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March 9, 2010

The Stop Stuttering Center

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: specialist stuttering courses, speech course, stammer, stutter, stuttering, stuttering therapies — jobself @ 9:14 pm

Do you have a stutter or stammer? Are you searching for “fluency techniques” that will help you to stop stuttering? If you have answered these questions in the positive then this article may well be of benefit to you.

The How To Stop Stuttering Centre was established in 1996 by Steve Hill. Steve is a person who developed a stutter when he was a four year old boy and who managed to eradicate his stutter when he was aged twenty-two. Steve states:

“To achieve fluency is far from easy and anybody who is looking for some sort of magic potion or magic pill that they merely swallow to enable them to “stop stuttering” will be left disappointed. Those people however who are willing to work hard and who are determined to kill their stuttering demons will be able to achieve the dream that is fluency”.

Steve mainly helps people by running one-to-one speech courses. The courses are held in Birmingham, England. These stuttering courses are held over a 2, 3 or 5 day period with each day lasting approximately three and a half hours.

Steve also offers alternative stuttering therapies to the speech course. These therapies are more what you would call “self-help stuttering therapy” and include an e-book, a DVD and an audio book. All of these products include full descriptions of each of the techniques that are required to achieve fluency.

Steve has helped people from many different nations including India, Pakistan, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the USA and Australia.

Steve has been featured in the media on a regular basis over the last thirteen years and has said that he is looking forward to helping more people who have a stutter or stammer in the years to come.

It is suggested that out of all of the people that suffer with stuttering there are three times as many men as women that have this form of speech impediment. The stuttering centre in the UK helps all people to achieve fluency whether they are adults or children, women or men.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the stuttering centre.

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March 6, 2010

The Best Way To Eradicate A Stutter

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: speech courses, stammering therapy, stutter, stuttering, stuttering courses, treatment for stuttering — jobself @ 9:34 pm

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. I myself started attending speech therapy at the age of five and I continued at different times to attend until the age of eighteen. 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.

Another area people try is hypnotherapy. 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.

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November 17, 2009

Stuttering And Stammering Speech Therapy Courses

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: communicate, speech coach, speech coaching, stop stuttering, stutter, stuttering — jobself @ 9:15 am

The popularity and demand for the one-to-one communication therapy courses for stuttering is growing every year. 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.

The stammering/stuttering therapy course are held in Birmingham which is in England. 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”. This is where people are able to communicate with Steve whilst also watching his responses on their computer screens. This abilty to watch the speech coach describe and demonstrate the techniques is of great benefit in speech pathology.

The feedback that has been received from the people who have attended one of the stuttering/stammering courses or who have purchased one of the self-help products has been very positive.

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.

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September 30, 2009

The Frustration of Having a Stammer

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: achieve fluency, cure for stuttering, stutter, stuttering, stuttering problem, talk fluently — jobself @ 9:38 pm

Are you one of the many people who suffer with the speech impediment known as stuttering or stammering? Does your stutter/stammer cause you to become very frustrated at times? Have you attended speech therapy in the past in the hope that it would help improve your speech? I have managed to successfully overcome my own stammer and as a career I now help other people to attain fluency. In this article, I write about the frustrations and emotions that people who stutter have to deal with.

When I had a stutter, it created many different forms of emotions within me. I was actually ashamed of having this speech impediment and did not want to discuss the problem with anybody. My family, especially my parents, even to this day are unaware of most of the difficulties that stuttering caused me, during my time at school and in my late teens. Even when I had a really bad day at school, I would not talk about what had happened with my parents. I would instead just go to my bedroom and attempt to forget it.

I also felt quite sorry for myself. I always believed that I was a decent person and did not think that I deserved to have this horrible stutter. There were many people in my class who in my opinion deserved to have the stutter much more than I did, however in truth I would not wish a stutter on anybody.

I was a person who felt like a second class citizen due to the fact that I had this speech impediment. I was not able to socialise with the ease as what everybody else seemed to, and had many traumatic experiences in the classroom when attempting to read out of a book for example.

Even though I had a stuttering problem, I could at times talk quite well. I could not understand why I was able to talk to person A but not person B. This caused me many frustrations.

When I was about sixteen, I started to drink alcohol. This had a major impact on my speech as I could talk perfectly well when I was drunk. This showed me that it was possible to “stop stuttring”.

Speech therapists and negative national associations, have for years attempted to convince me to accept my stutter and have told me that there is no cure for stuttering. How can this be right, if I was constantly drunk, I would be fluent, there is a cure in itself. Of course it is not right or healthy to be constantly drunk but I am sure you know what I mean.

There were certain speaking situations that were especially difficult for me to handle during the period of my life when I had the stammer. Making and answering telephone calls was especially hard for me. I look back now and can not believe that I coped with working in an office environment for six years, at a time when I had the stutter. I remember traveling to work feeling sick in my stomach through the stress and fear.

Ordering drinks and food at the bar, introducing people to each other, attending meetings and job interviews were other aspects of my life which were made all that more harder by my inability to talk fluently.

My advice to people who have a stuttering problem is to not give up, believe in yourself and your own ability to one day achieve fluency. Do not listen to negative people who try to convince you that there is no cure for stuttering. Most of the people who say this to you will have never had a stutter and will have no idea how our brains work.

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