| Are you somebody who has a stammer? My | | | | childhood stammering. I continued to attend |
| name is Stephen Hill and I had a stammer | | | | speech therapy and joining in with their speech |
| problem which started when I was aged four. | | | | therapy activities and their speech therapy games. |
| After suffering with the speech impediment for | | | | This had little effect on my fluency and it has to |
| eighteen years, I then, afer a lot of hard work, | | | | be stated, that I really did not want to attend |
| managed to achieve fluency. This article is about | | | | these anti stammering sessions. This was because |
| the types of speech therapy that are available | | | | I felt that the people who were trying to help |
| for stammering. | | | | me, did not really understand what I was going |
| After my stammer developed, my parents | | | | through, as they had never actually had a |
| decided that I needed to attend some sort of | | | | stammer themselves. |
| speech therapy. I attended various types of | | | | I then progressed to the class called, adult |
| therapy, some in groups, some on a one to one | | | | stammering. I now decided that speech therapy |
| basis. I was given lots of different advice about | | | | was not really working for me and seeked |
| how to stop stammering. These are some of | | | | alternative stammering therapy. |
| them:slowing down the speed of my speechcostal | | | | I decided to try my own form of stammering |
| breathingprolonging each word or soundtaking a | | | | self help. Even though I had a stammer, at times |
| deep breath before I started speaking | | | | I could talk very well. As an example when I was |
| I had started in the class which is sometimes | | | | drunk, I spoke superbly. This was possibly |
| referred to as preschool stammering. I was very | | | | because of the additional confidence the alcohol |
| young to attend stammering speech therapy and | | | | seemed to give me. |
| my parents were reassured that most people | | | | After nearly a year I managed to overcome |
| who stammer in childhood soon grow out of it. | | | | stammering and eradicate the stammer once and |
| Well for whatever reason, I was one of those | | | | for all. As a career I now help other people to |
| who continued well into my adult life. | | | | stop stammering. |
| I grew older and then joined the class known as | | | | |