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