| Do you have a child who has a speech | | | | young child to suddenly start stuttering? |
| impediment? Does your child have a stutter? Are | | | | In an attempt to find answers to all of these |
| you looking into the various types of speech | | | | questions my parents phoned the local hospital |
| therapy for children? If you have answered yes | | | | and asked to be put through to the speech |
| to any of these questions this article may well be | | | | therapist. Eventually they managed to locate this |
| of interest and benefit to you. I am a person who | | | | speech therapist who tried his best to put their |
| has managed to overcome a speech impediment | | | | minds at ease. My mother and father were both |
| known as a stammer or stutter which had been | | | | a lot happier for phoning this speech therapist as |
| ruining my life for seventeen years. I now help | | | | they were told that it was very likely that it was |
| other people to beat their own speech | | | | just a phase I was going through and that it was |
| impediments and to achieve fluency. | | | | very common for this type of thing to happen in |
| From what my parents have told me, I started | | | | young children, especially in boys. Well guess what, |
| to have a problem with my own communication | | | | he was wrong! |
| when I was in my first year of school. I was just | | | | After a few months my parents realised and |
| five years old at the time and previously to this | | | | accepted that the speech impediment was not |
| had been speaking without any trouble at all. You | | | | going away and decided to enrol me on a series |
| can imagine how my parents must have felt. | | | | of traditional speech therapy lessons. |
| They were very shocked and even a little bit | | | | I continued to attend speech therapy for the |
| worried. They had various questions to which | | | | next thirteen years before deciding that it was |
| they seeked answers. Is he likely to grow out of | | | | never going to work for me. |
| the stutter? Is this just a phase our son is going | | | | Aged twenty-two after a lot of hard work in the |
| through? Is this something that happens to most | | | | form of self-help, I finally managed to rid myself |
| children? What type of things could or should we | | | | of this horrible stuttering problem. |
| be doing to help our child? What has caused our | | | | |