Speech Stuttering
What do you think about the quality of speech and language treatments for stuttering? Have you been able to overcome your stutter through the help and advice of your speech and language therapist? How many years have you 
been attending speech and language therapy? Well I am not sure how you have answered the above questions or what your experiences with speech therapy has been, but all I can say is that I have been less than impressed with the advice and treatments that I received.
Fortunately there are now a number of more specialized therapies for stuttering in the form of one-to-one stuttering therapy courses which are conducted by people who have previously overcome a stutter.
I had a stutter for the majority of my childhood, from the ages of four and eighteen. I tried my very best to ensure that the stutter would not ruin my life however this was very hard at times. I had a number of ways of controlling the speech impediment; these included avoiding and substituting my difficult words, for example I would change the phrase ‘can I play ‘ to ‘I would like to play’. When I was out with my friends at a local bar I would point to a particular drink rather than just saying it when attempting to order the drinks at the bar. At times when I felt less confident I would ask a friend to order the drinks on my behalf, I have some very supportive friends who were more than happy to do this for me.
I eventually, after a lot of hard work, managed to overcome the stutter in 1995 when I was aged twenty-two. Treatments for stammering and stuttering have improved tremendously since the period when I had this form of speech impediment and therapies now include the very popular stuttering courses and their associated self-help products.
As for the merits of speech and language therapy as a form of stuttering treatment, well there are not many unfortunately. Perhaps in another fifteen years it will improve, we will have to wait and see.
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I am terrified I will never find a girlfriend who will be ok with my speech. I am 17 and go to college – you have no idea how many people laugh at my stutter, it’s killing me. I had one potential girlfriend called Katie who got her.
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. Often referred to as stuttering.
For years and years people thought that there is no cure or people would never be able to rid themselves of the stuttering sickness that they endure. Well, like most speech impediments stuttering has a cure though it is not a miracle.
Stuttering, also known as stammering, is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or. American Institute for Stuttering :: Welcome!
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