| This article is all about how to achieve fluency and | | | | from what I was told, I was made to believe that |
| looks at the specific speech impediment known as | | | | I was unable to live a stuttering-free life as it |
| stammering/stuttering. My name is Steve Hill, I | | | | suggested you are unable to eradicate a stutter. |
| suffered with a stutter from the age of four and | | | | This is a very negative attitude, however I could |
| despite regular conventional speech therapy, | | | | not really believe what I was hearing and reading |
| continued stuttering until the age of twenty-two. | | | | as I knew I could talk very well at times. |
| I found life with a stutter extremely frustrating as | | | | I then was fortunate enough to watch Bruce Willis |
| at times I could speak very well. For example | | | | being interviewed on the television. He stated that |
| when I spoke to what is now my ex-girlfriend I | | | | he had had a stutter which had started when he |
| very rarely had a problem, however when | | | | was a young boy, however he had managed to |
| attempting to speak to her parents I struggled | | | | achieve fluency when he was a late teenager. |
| quite badly. | | | | This was a huge inspiration to me and I then |
| When I was drunk my fluency level also would | | | | decided that I would attempt to overcome my |
| improve to a level where I would be shocked if I | | | | own speech impediment. |
| stuttered at all. | | | | After nearly a year of working very hard by |
| I could not understand why I could talk to one | | | | reading books about positive thinking and mind |
| person but not to another and why I could speak | | | | over matter and by basically studying people who |
| when I was drunk but not when I was sober. | | | | I thought were great speakers, I also managed to |
| I read many books about speech imediments, | | | | beat the stutter. As a career I now help other |
| achieving fluency and stuttering and spoke to | | | | people to achieve fluency. |
| many speech therapists. From what I read and | | | | |