Help with satmmering
I Need To Break From This Stammering Nightmare
This is really starting to get me down. Why I am the only
person in the class that has a stammer? At the end of the
day would it actually make things any easier if there were,
let’s say, four people in the class that also had a
stammer? I doubt it. But at least I would have somebody to
talk to who would be able to understand what I was going
through. Stammering – it really is a bit of a nightmare.
The above is the way in which I felt when I was at school.
I am a person who developed a speech impediment, a stammer,
when I was a very young boy. My parents tried very hard to
help me to become free from this most frustrating of
impediments however the available treatment was of a very
poor standard. I met numerous speech and language therapists
however not one of them seemed to have even the slightest
comprehension of the subject of stammering and they all were
of the same opinion and that was that I would continue to
have the stammer for the rest of my life. This made me feel
great! NOT. Great job guys and girls – you should all be
very proud of yourselves.
What used to amaze me was the overall attitude of these
speech and language therapists. They would try to convince
me that there was not a “cure for stuttering” to which I
would reply “OK, so what are you doing to find a cure”.
Have a guess what they would say? Well it would be something
along the lines of “Research continues to be carried out
but there is little hope, in reality, that a cure will ever
be found”. These people are just too positive for me.
In the end I just could not continue wasting my time with
these unprofessional speech therapists and started on my own
journey to overcome the stammer. This is something that I
would eventually achieve when I was at the age of
twenty-two. Fourteen years on and I continue to enjoy a
fluent speech – just as well I did not listen to those
negative speech therapists.
I now run The How To Stop Stammering Centre in Birmingham,
England.