Stuttering Specialist

I have a quick question, how effective is traditional speech therapy in helping people who stutter to achieve fluency? Why am I asking this? Well basically because I am still bitter at the experiences that I had at speech therapy.

My parents took me to see a traditional speech therapist when I was just five years of age.

They were very worried about me, I had developed a stutter at the age of four and ten months later it had become more severe. I do not remember anything from the initial visits to the speech therapists apart from the fact that I did not want to attend.

The whole idea of attending speech therapy is to improve one’s fluency and I was also hoping that it would help me to cure the problem.

I attended speech therapy, on and off, for thirteen years. THIRTEEN YEARS of speech therapy, did I improve? Did speech therapy enable me to achieve fluency?

To my frustration the answer to both of these questions was a big fat NO. You could hardly call these speech therapists a stuttering specialist.

To make things even worse, I was even told by one of these so called speech therapists that you can not cure a stutter. Thanks for being so positive mate, give me a gun and I will shoot myself now!

Fortunately I have been bought up to think in a positive way and to ignore negative people and influences in life.

This superb upbringing has helped me on a number of occasions and was to also work with my speech.

At the age of twenty-two, after having had a stutter for eighteen years, I managed to achieve fluency.

As a career I now help other people who have a stutter, I run The How to Stop Stuttering Centre in England.