Dad, I hope you have a few spare minutes for a quick chat. Of course Steve what is the matter? It is my speech; the stammer is seemingly becoming even more severe. Today was a complete nightmare, I had numerous embarrassing moments and I even started to cry when I returned home from school. I feel like such a loser, I am so ashamed of myself. Son you have nothing to be ashamed of, it is not your fault that you have a stammer and you are certainly not a loser. You have to stop thinking in this way as it is not helping the situation, I know that it is hard but you must keep thinking positively.
I understand what you are saying dad but you heard what the speech and language therapist said last week; that I will always have a stammer and that there is not a known cure for stammering. He wanted me to start accepting the fact that I have a stammer as this way it should be easier to cope, in his opinion. What does he know Steve? The therapy and advice that he has provided for you thus far has been a down right disgrace, he has not been able to improve your fluency by even one percent. I can say one thing for sure that he has no understanding of the speech impediment stammering and therefore we should ignore those negative comments. You will not be seeing him again Steve as he is far too negative and is slowly destroying your confidence. I will start to look for a more specialised form of stammering therapy for you.
The opening two paragraphs of this article describe and recall part of a conversation that I had with my father when I was at the age of fifteen. My mother and father were a superb support to me as I went through childhood; this was most appreciated as I really needed them especially due to the fact that I had a stammer.
There is a much greater amount of help and support for people who stammer these days and the advent of the internet has certainly made it a lot easier to locate the stammering therapies that are available.
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