| Do you have a speech impediment? Are you | | | | remember much about these early speech |
| looking at ways in which you can overcome your | | | | therapy lessons. |
| speech impediment? Do you hate your speech | | | | In my teenage years I continued to search for |
| impediment? Does your speech impediment | | | | some sort of stammering cure and was |
| dictate your life? Up until around ten years ago I | | | | desperate to find some solutions to the speech |
| would have answered yes to all of these | | | | impediment. I was starting to get frustrated with |
| questions but have now managed to achieve | | | | life and especially speech therapy. I had been |
| fluency and life has never been so good. | | | | going for years and had not improved one bit. I |
| My own speech impediment started when I was | | | | also had quite a bad attitude to the whole |
| just four years of age, well this is what my | | | | process, you have never had a stammer so how |
| parents have told me. I had for whatever reason | | | | do you know how it is affecting me, this is what I |
| developed what I call a stammer or what most | | | | used to think about these speech therapists who |
| people call a stutter. Looking back this must have | | | | were attempting and failing to help me. |
| been a huge cause of concern for my parents | | | | There are many different types of therapy for a |
| and it would have been difficult for them to know | | | | stutter including one-to-one speech courses, group |
| where to look for help. Now that I am a parent | | | | courses, hypnosis, self help dvds and self help |
| myself I can understand what it must have been | | | | ebooks. |
| like for them. | | | | I managed to overcome my own stammer ten |
| My parents decided to take me to speech | | | | years ago after basically studying how what I call |
| therapy in a quest to cure the speech | | | | the best talkers spoke and then copying them. |
| impediment. I, as such a young boy did not want | | | | My confidence has improved in a big way and life |
| to go as it was not somewhere that any of my | | | | is now a lot easier. |
| friends had to go. I have to admit that I do not | | | | |