| Hi Dad, I could do with having a quick chat with | | | | able to achieve total fluency and also ensure that |
| you, could you spare five minutes of your time | | | | you work very hard to enable these dreams to |
| please? Of course Steve, you know that you do | | | | become a reality. |
| not have to ask, are you OK? Well yes and know | | | | So where should one look to find such a |
| really. I have a great life apart from one thing, a | | | | stuttering solution? Well the internet is a very |
| major thing at that - it is this frustrating stutter; it | | | | valuable resource as a simple search on a search |
| is really starting to get me down. I am desperate | | | | engine like Google for terms such as "stuttering |
| to achieve total fluency and to stop stuttering | | | | course, stuttering advice or stuttering therapy, to |
| once and for all. Will you help me? I will help you in | | | | name just a few, will provide people with a |
| any way that I can Steve. Thanks Dad. | | | | number of different options. I would advise that |
| The above was a conversation that I had with | | | | any treatment that people take up should always |
| my dad when I was aged around fourteen. I was | | | | come with the back up of "a continued support |
| quite fortunate in the fact that I could talk to my | | | | service" as this is essential when attempting to |
| dad about such matters and also with the fact | | | | achieve fluency. |
| that he was more than happy to help. Both of | | | | I would also suggest that people focus on the |
| my parents have always been a massive support | | | | ways that other people are speaking, people who |
| to me. | | | | are fluent. Concentrate on comparing how they |
| Speech and language therapy, of which I had | | | | breathe, how they formulate a sentence and how |
| been attending for the last eleven years at this | | | | they approach each speaking situation. |
| stage, had not provided me with the solutions to | | | | This, amongst other things is what I did, I left no |
| stuttering that I was looking for and I was | | | | stone unturned in my quest to overcome the |
| therefore looking for an alternative type of | | | | stutter and with the help of my family and friends |
| treatment. | | | | was eventually able to achieve fluency at the age |
| My advice to the readers of this article who have | | | | of twenty-two. It was a long journey but one |
| a stutter is to never give up, keep living that | | | | that ultimately proved successful. |
| dream, keep believing that one day you will be | | | | |