It can be some what of a lonely place to be, it is a life full of frustration, a life full of dreams, full of hope but also full of desperation - that is the life of people who suffer with the speech impediment known as stuttering or stammering. But why hope? It is a hope that one day they will be able to overcome their stutter or stammer. But why full of dreams? Because they often dream that one day they will achieve total fluency.
But why full of desperation? Because at times it seems as if they are destined to have this type of speech impediment for the rest of their lives. Speech and language therapists are all too happy to dash these people's hopes and dreams by stating to them that they will not be able to eradicate their stutter/stammer. There are so many negative stuttering websites by people who amazingly enough have a stutter themselves, people who have given up the ghost and resigned themselves to this life of despair and frustration.
This however is 2009 and acceptance is no longer the watch word in the world of stuttering therapy. These negative stuttering websites and clueless speech and language therapists are being drowned out by a new breed of stuttering experts - people who have not been to university for three years to study speech and language therapy but who have been to a much more worth while form of education - the university of life - yes these stuttering specialists are people who have had a stutter and who have managed to overcome it. They did not listen to all of the negativity and were able to achieve their goal of total fluency.
These people are now providing expert stuttering therapy solutions in the form of one-to-one speech courses. There are also numerous forms of self-help products available for those people who are unable to attend a course.
Steve Hill is a speech coach from Birmingham; he has a number of websites including:
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