| Dad, is it OK if I have a quick chat with you? | | | | speech impediment for the whole of my life. |
| Of course it is son, is anything the matter? | | | | I have a superb, loving, family who have always |
| Well as you are fully aware I have had a speech | | | | been extremely helpful and supportive of me. This |
| impediment since the age of four, I am now | | | | support was one of the major reasons that I |
| sixteen! The speech and language therapy just is | | | | was eventually able to overcome the stammer |
| not helping me to achieve fluency, in fact I have | | | | when I was in my early twenties. |
| to say that it is proving to be a complete waste | | | | They helped me to have the belief that I could |
| of time. I could really do with finding some | | | | find my own techniques to eradicate the |
| techniques to overcome the stammer and was | | | | stammer and this is what I did. These techniques |
| hoping that you would help me to find them. Of | | | | were aimed at enabling me to be able to speak, |
| course I will, I would do anything to help you. | | | | free from stammering, in any given situation and |
| Thanks dad, I know it may seem daft but it is | | | | were to do with both the physical and emotional |
| really starting to affect my life now and I could | | | | side of things, including how I should be breathing, |
| really do with finding some specialist stammering | | | | how I should be thinking and how I should handle |
| therapy. It is not daft, I understand completely, | | | | pressure effectively. |
| why should anyone have to accept second best? | | | | There was no magical cure which many people |
| This was part of a discussion that I had with my | | | | who stammer often search for, in the end it took |
| dad when I was a teenager. I was becoming quite | | | | me around a year to overcome the stammer and |
| eager to find a solution to the stammer as I could | | | | to therefore achieve fluency. |
| not face the prospect of having this form of | | | | |