Are you attending speech therapy for stuttering or what some people know as stammering? Are you happy with the speech therapy treatment you are receiving? Is the speech therapy helping you to overcome your stutter/stammer? In this article I write about my own experiences of trying to beat my own stammering problem via attending speech therapy classes.
Stammering is something which is quite a complicated problem to understand and it must be very hard for speech therapists to go about helping people who stutter. Ten years ago I successfully overcame a stammer which had been affecting my life for the previous eighteen years. It was not as if I was unable to talk at all, at times I even spoke quite well and when I was drunk I was as fluent as the next person. This last statement was quite interesting for me, I could talk fluently when I was drunk, therefore everytime somebody such as a speech therapist told me that you are unable to cure a stammer, I knew they were wrong. If I was to be permanently drunk, as unhealthy as that might seem, I would surely be fluent. Now of course it is not right or possible to be constantly intoxicated but what I realised I needed to be in order to overcome this speech impediment was permanently mentally drunk but not permanently physically drunk, I hope you understand what I mean. Basically I had to change my attitude and learn to become a lot more chilled out.
I found that I could speak better when I was relaxed, when I was comfortable and when I knew the person I was speaking to. At the outset when attending a new set of speech therapy sessions I would be quite nervous as I had never met this particular speech therapist, I would be feeling under pressure as I was likely to be asked a lot of questions and would probably feel quite uncomfortable etc. This would result in me stammering quite badly in the first few sessions. As the weeks moved on I would then start to become far more relaxed as I got to know the speech therapist, this would result in me talking a lot more fluently. I could tell that the speech therapist believed that he/she had done a great job where in reality it was not of course from what they had done.
I have to say that I had expected far more from attending speech therapy for eighteen years and eventually decided to find my own stuttering cure.
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