Speech therapy in the UK

My parents decided to take me to speech therapy at the age of four in the hope that it would help me to achieve fluency.

Being thirty-four (as at Jan 2008), I have to say that I do not remember a great deal from these early speech therapy sessions but do recall not wanting to attend.

Back in these days there were a lack of options for people who were looking to “stop stuttering”.

For this reason I continued to attend speech therapy for the next fourteen years.

It may seem that I am criticising speech therapists which in a way I suppose I am, in reality the fact that it did not work for me does not mean that it would not work for other people.

I also have to admit that I did have a rather negative attitude to the speech therapists who lets face it were only trying to help me. In my own mind I knew that they could not fully understand me as they had not had a stutter themselves.

I needed to believe that I could and would one day achieve fluency. The feedback I was obtaining from the speech and language therapists was mainly that they did not think that this was possible.

They were attempting to help the stutter become less severe rather than trying to cure it. Second best is not good enough for me and cure it had to be.

I would like to thank the speech therapists who tried in vain to help me.

I understand I was a difficult patient/client and that I became frustrated on a regular basis.

I am a lot calmer now! By the way I told you that I would overcome it one day.

Treatments for stuttering have improved in the last few years; there are many more options for people who stutter in 2008.

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