| I would like to thank you (my local speech | | | | stuttering! My progress had been slow, well in |
| therapist) for all of your efforts thus far however | | | | truth it had been non existent as my stutter had |
| I do not really believe that it is helping me in the | | | | actually become even more severe. The speech |
| way that I had hoped. I am not interested in | | | | therapist was a great guy but confirmed in this |
| accepting second best and am basically looking for | | | | conversation that he was unable to provide me |
| a cure to my stuttering speech impediment. The | | | | with the solutions that I was looking for. Well at |
| reply from the speech therapist was rather | | | | least he was being truthful. |
| negative in that he stated that there was not a | | | | To overcome the stutter I decided to focus on |
| known cure for stuttering. I therefore decided to | | | | people who I thought had excellent communication |
| embark on my own quest and search to find the | | | | skills, people such as politicians, television |
| solution to this most frustrating form of speech | | | | presenters and newsreaders. I wanted to work |
| impediment. | | | | out the difference between their speech and my |
| There was absolutely no way that I could | | | | own. |
| contemplate having to live the rest of my life | | | | I also needed to work out how to increase my |
| with a stutter. Stuttering had been a major thorn | | | | overall self-confidence levels as my self-esteem |
| in my side ever since it had started to impact on | | | | had been badly eroded due to the stutter. |
| my life, in a negative manner, when I was just | | | | It was to be a long journey however after |
| four years of age. | | | | around one year it was a journey that was |
| The above conversation (the opening paragraph | | | | happily to lead me to the fluency that I had often |
| of this article) took place when I was eighteen | | | | dreamed of. |
| years of age. I had been attending the more | | | | I have now been fluent for the last thirteen years |
| traditional forms of speech therapy since I was | | | | and I can confirm that life as a fluent person is |
| aged five, yes fully thirteen years and I was still | | | | just as good as I had imagined. |