Stuttering is a speech impediment that affects approximately one percent of the population in the Western world. A recent report suggested that seven out of ten people who have a stutter are male. Many of the people who suffer with this form of speech impediment often dream about a life where they are able to speak fluently but will this ever be possible, is there a cure for stuttering?

Since the start of the internet revolution access to information has become far easier. Finding relevant and beneficial therapies for stuttering proved to be quite difficult going back only a couple of decades however now people have access to many different forms of stuttering help treatment at a click of a button. By simply searching on one of the major search engines such as Google for “stuttering therapy” or “stuttering treatments” enable people to locate many specialists in this field.

These days there are numerous forms of therapy for stuttering available. The most popular is without doubt the one-to-one speech therapy courses which are run by people who have previously had and overcome a stutter. These courses are normally over a five-day period however shorter three-day courses are also available.

There are various self-help stuttering therapy products which are ideal for those people who are unable to attend a speech course for whatever reason. The stuttering therapy DVD is possibly the most beneficial of these products however there are also e-books and audio books for sale online to help people to overcome their stutter.

Despite what various speech and language therapists may tell you – stuttering can be overcome. Many many people have managed to overcome a stutter and you could well be the next.

Stephen Hill runs The How To Stop Stuttering Centre in the UK where he helps people to achieve fluency.

I remember when I was growing up, my parents used to become vey annoyed with me when I stated that I could not do my homework or could not do other things I had been asked to do.

They would respond with the advice that I could do anything in life as long as I believed in myself and as long as I was willing to work very hard. The word, can’t, does not exist in my vocab Steve, I sometimes find certain tasks difficult however always believe that I will be able to succeed, my father would say.

He worked very hard to make me understand and to take on board this message, which would eventually prove to be a valuable lesson for me to learn. It has helped me to achieve many things and to also overcome some of the issues I had in my life.

School and employment

I was not the brightest student at school and as previously mentioned would often say that I could not complete the work through my lack of belief in my own ability. I actually worked my socks off and eventually left school with some very good grades; my parents were very proud. I continued this success into my work life and became a successful upvc front door salesman as well as offering psychic readings. 

Stuttering

From the age of four I had suffered with the speech impediment known as stammering or stuttering. By my early twenties I had had enough of this struggle and went about trying to overcome the stutter. My parents were amazing and were always there in a supportive way to ensure that I kept up the practice.

I did, after a huge amount of work and dedication, manage to overcome this most annoying of speech impediments, this enabled me to have the freedom and confidence to say any word that I wanted to – this was a huge relief as you can no doubt imagine. Life is now a lot easier!

Do you have a stutter? Does one of your children have a stutter? Do you know somebody who has a stutter? This article is all about the speech impediment known as stuttering or stammering. It includes stuttering advice and also treatments which are available to help people who stutter to achieve fluency.

Stuttering is a much larger problem than many people think. Latest research suggests that as many as one percent of the population of the UK has a stuttering problem and that around eighty percent of these people are male.

I had a stutter for eighteen years. I have been informed that I started stuttering when I was only four years of age. For some bizarre reason it took me fully 14 years to realise that speech therapy was not going to work for me; yes 14 years – I am ashamed at myself – or maybe I was just trying to think positive.

There are a great deal of people who have become very good at hiding the fact that they have a speech impediment. They have stated that most of the people that they know are not even aware that they have a speech impediment. This does not mean that life is any easier as to hide the stutter takes a great deal of energy and there are times when it is basically impossible to hide it. Life is tough no matter what form of stutter one has.

Other people are not able to hide their stutter in this way and will have what is perceived to be a much more severe stutter – I knew a person who worked for a composite door company who had this form of speech impediment; he did however manage to overcome the problem after attending a stammering cure course.

There are a number of treatments for stuttering including the normal route of speech therapy via the local doctor or hospital. Many people who stutter find this form of therapy very frustrating as there are often long waiting lists, and the sessions are normally quite short and irregular.

There is also private stop stammering treatments in the form of people who have managed to overcome their own stutter. This can be on a one-to-one basis or in a group situation.

I am from England and looking back on my life I now find it hard to believe the way in which I used to think and approach life. I was a very negative person, I would stress about seemingly everything and believed that I was so unfortunate compared to other people.

I would always be comparing my life with those of my friends and family. These people seemed to really enjoy life and did not seem to have a care in the world. I, on the other hand had many issues to deal, with which made life one big struggle. I was unable to talk fluently due to a stuttering problem, this stutter caused me many traumas and made me into a very quiet and shy person.

In my early twenties, I decided that I had had enough of being miserable and depressed and started to fight back.

I started to read and find out about how people lived in different parts of the world. Watching the news each day would keep me abreast of current affairs. Some of the stories and the way in which people live came not so much as a shock, but as a wake up call to me. I would not want to swap my life with theirs, that is for sure.

It may seem very bad but after listening to the problems of these unfortunate people I actually started to appreciate what I had in life. I have a great job working for a composite door company where I sell affordable composite and external doors. I also work with a business cost reduction specialist on a part-time basis; I do have a weight problem, this is something of my own doing and something which I can change, if I am determined enough. Even though I stammer, I can still converse, I may even be able to cure the stammer, which I now have. I was now in a much better frame of mind to be able to deal with some of my bigger worries.

Have you heard about the latest therapy for stammering? This is what is known as specialist stammering therapy. Why? The reason for this is because the speech coach is a person that has previously had a stammer.

Stephen Hill was just four years of age when he started to stammer. Despite attending the many different forms of speech and language therapy classes for many years the stammer continued to plague his life until he was aged twenty-two.

Mr Hill had a single life-time goal or ambition which was to some how achieve fluency. Despite being advised to accept the speech impediment that was ruining his life, Steve continued in his quest to find the “solution to stammering”.

Steve could and would not accept that there was not a cure for stammering. He truly believes that there is only one way that a person should think, positively.

At the age of twenty-two Mr Hill managed to achieve his goal of fluency after working extremely hard to formulate a set of “how to stop stammering techniques”.

He now teaches these techniques to other people who stutter and does this via a one-to-one speech course. There are also a number of self-help stop stammering therapy options available for those people who are unable to attend a course; these include an audio-book, an e-book and a DVD.

Stammering and Stuttering affects many people from all over the world. It is always worth spending to research in this situation.

There is full back up provided where people are able to telephone Steve to ask him any questions that arise.

Steve:

“In the past I often dreamt about what life would be like as a fluent person. Now that I am able to speak free from the fear of stuttering I have to say that it feels even better than what I had imagined to be. I am now able to reach my full potentail in life”.

I used to be quite a fragile character, some would say that I was even scared of my own shadow. I was always paranoid that people were talking about me and laughing behind my back.

So why was I like this? Well it was mainly because, in my opinion, I had a stutter. It started when I was aged four and despite attending various forms of stop stammering therapy I was unable to find the solution which would enable me to achieve fluency.

I decided that enough was enough by my mid-twenties and decided it was time to toughen up. I could not continue to live my life as I had been, as I would probably be dead by the time I was fifty.

I then went about a self-help program to increase my overall self-confidence and self-esteem. I wanted to learn more about stress-management, dealing with depression, relaxation and about how to become successful in life.

What I found out over the next twelve to eighteen months would change my life forever.

These are the things I had to do:

I had to stop feeling sorry for myself. Yes I am not perfect but who is.

I had to think in a more positive way. This was something I had somehow learnt to do in my business life where I work for a company that sells composite front doors but I had never managed to do it in my personal life.
 
I had to stop worrying about the future.

I had to stop caring what other people thought of me.

I needed to smile more.

I needed to learn to relax. Over the last few months I have been using meditation to help me with this.

I had to learn to like myself.

I needed to become stronger to fight away the negative thoughts in my head.

I realised that I needed to concentrate on the positive aspects of my life rather than wallowing in the self-pity of thinking about what I believed I did not have in life.

I started to implement the above and it helped me no end. That horrible cloud of doom, still descended however, around once a month. When it does descend, I now write two lists. What I am happy about in life and what I am sad or worrying about. I have now realised after studying the two lists that I am very much a person that over-reacts.

I am now a much more positive person and this is having a good affect on my business life where I now work for a ”cheap mobile phone calls” company and I also helping people to overcome stammering.

I wish you every success with your efforts to gain in self-confidence.

I was a person who was an easy target for those nasty bullies. I was some what unfortunate to develop a stutter when I was a young child. Despite attending different forms of stuttering therapy I was only able to achieve fluency when I was in my twenties.

I was always struggling with my weight and was larger than most of my other classmates and I was the shortest male in the class.

I had hoped that people who I would meet at work would be rather more mature than these school kids – they are adults after all. How wrong could I have been?

There was one main bully who made my life hell, his name was Gary. Gary constantly took the mickey out of myself and would mimmick my stuttering at regular intervals. I tried to not let it bother me, but it did. I let this continue for nearly year and by now I was feeling very depressed and was ready to quit.

I then came across a piece of brilliant literature which was about playing the nutter card. Basically at for example work, you can be who you want to be. A nutter does not worry about another persons size or weight or power. They are willing to go one step further than the majority of people ane this is they way in which we have to threaten the bully – with belief – this way he/she is more likely to back up – after all they are all supposed to be cowards.

I decided to be brave and give it a go. Trying to fight back in a physical manner was not really an option due to the fact that Gary was probably twice the size of me. He does not know the people in my circle of friends though, I needed to convince him that they could.

On the day when I actually went for it, it had not been planned. I will have to admit that despite really wanting to do this I did not feel that I would have the courage. This day the bullying was very distressing and was in very bad taste. I was really mad and clocked out of work and went to wait by Gary’s car, but hidden behind a tree.

Gary eventually approached his car and went to unlock the door, as he did I jumped on his back but quickly fell off. He turned round with a shocked look on his face, however was happy when he saw that it was me. I started swearing at him and told him that I had had enough. I informed him that a number of my friends are a bit tapped in the head, but that they would do anything to help me. If I told them the abuse he was giving me, they would not be best pleased and would basically beat him to a pulp. I told him that if I ever heard him bad mouthing me again, whether it was directly to my face or behind my back – then I would let them know – he would then have to await his punishment to happen. I then ran off shaking.

The next day I went to work in a nervous state, I am happy to report he fell for the bait and was as good as gold after that.

I still left the company where I worked around six months later, but it was for the right reasons as I had been made a good offer by a local composite doors company but in the end I opted to work for a business cost reduction specialist. I am happy to report that only nice people work for this organisation.

Do you have a stutter or stammer? Are you looking for techniques that would enable you to overcome your stutter? If you have answered these questions in the positive then this article may well be of benefit to you.

The How To Stop Stuttering Centre was established in 1996 by Steve Hill. Steve is a person who developed a stutter when he was a four year old boy and who managed to eradicate his stutter when he was aged twenty-two. Steve states:

“To achieve fluency is far from easy and anybody who is looking for some sort of magic potion or magic pill that they merely swallow to enable them to “stop stuttering” will be left disappointed. Those people however who are willing to work hard and who are determined to kill their stuttering demons will be able to achieve the dream that is fluency”.

Steve mainly helps people by running one-to-one speech courses. The courses are held in the centre of England in a city called Birmingham. These specialist stuttering courses are held over a 2, 3 or 5 day period with each day lasting approximately three and a half hours.

Steve also offers alternative stuttering therapies to the speech course. These therapies are more what you would call “self-help stuttering therapy” and include an e-book, a DVD and an audio book. These products come with full descriptions of the “stuttering therapy techniques”.

Steve has helped people from many different nations including India, Pakistan, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the USA and Australia.

Steve has been featured in the media on a regular basis over the last thirteen years and has said that he is looking forward to helping more people who have a stutter or stammer in the years to come.

It is suggested that out of all of the people that suffer with stuttering there are three times as many men as women that have this form of speech impediment. The stuttering centre in the UK helps all people to achieve fluency whether they are adults or children, women or men.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the stuttering centre.