The curse of the stammer

Why do I have a speech impediment? This is a question I used to ask myself on a regular basis, especially when I was a teenager. I did not feel that it was fair that I was seemingly the only person in the whole school who had a stammer. I had developed this annoying speech defect at the age of four and had found it increasingly frustrating the older I became.

Speech therapy did not really improve things and there seemed little hope that I would be able to eradicate the stammer at any time in the future. All of the so called experts I met were telling me that there is not a cure for stammering and that it would be something that I would have to live with for the rest of my life. To say that this was depressing would have been an understatement.

This attitude that these people were showing was in my opinion some what negative, luckily for me my parents have bought me up to think in a positive way and to ignore negative people. This is therefore what I decided to do, there was no way that I was going to accept that I would have this affliction for the rest of my life.

At the age of twenty-two, I finally managed to achieve my goal of speech fluency. It took a lot of hard work but in the end it was well worth it. As a career, I now teach other people the techniques that I successfully used to cure my own stammer. I am now thirty-three years of age and have been doing this for the past ten years.

I run one-to-one speech courses and also offer an ebook or dvd for people who are unable to attend the course.