| Newsflash, you can overcome a stutter. I was | | | | efforts they did little to help me. I did not have |
| told on numerous occasions that you can not cure | | | | any real confidence that they would ever cure |
| a stutter or as some people call it, a stammer. | | | | me of this horrible stutter. |
| This was relayed to me by various so called | | | | After eighteen years of having the speech |
| professionals including a doctor and a speech | | | | impediment, the time had come when I decided |
| therapist. My parents bought me up to think in a | | | | that enough was enough, I was now going to |
| positive manner and to believe in myself. This is | | | | attempt to find my own cure for stuttering. I |
| not always easy to do when you have a speech | | | | was heartened by the fact that I never ever had |
| impediment as one's confidence can be severely | | | | any form of stutter when I was speaking to |
| dented. I had to believe that one day I would be | | | | myself. |
| able to achieve fluency even though many people | | | | After around a year of trying to find the solution, |
| thought that I should try to accept the fact that I | | | | I finally managed to eradicate the stutter. It was |
| had a stutter and that I would suffer from its | | | | not easy and there were many times when I |
| affects for the rest of life. | | | | wanted to give up altogether, I did however stick |
| I tried many forms of stuttering therapy, these | | | | to it and eventually was rewarded with fluency. |
| included group speech therapy classes and also | | | | Eleven years later I am still speaking without any |
| one to one traditional speech therapy. Despite | | | | hint or fear of stuttering. |
| always giving these treatments my very best | | | | |