| Mum, I need to somehow find a way to eradicate | | | | choose from a multitude of therapy options. A |
| this stutter from my life; it is starting to really get | | | | very recent report highlighted that the most |
| me down. The speech therapy that I have been | | | | popular of these options and also the most |
| attending for the last thirteen years is just not | | | | beneficial is the one-to-one stuttering course, a |
| working. Is there any chance that you can try to | | | | course which is run by a former stutterer. |
| find some other form of therapy for me? Is | | | | The report also suggested that there is an ever |
| there any specialist stuttering course out there | | | | increasing demand for a home-based stuttering |
| which could help me to achieve fluency? | | | | therapy program; or what is commonly referred |
| The above conversation took place when I was | | | | to as a self-help stuttering therapy program. |
| around eighteen years of age. As you can no | | | | These are where people learn the stuttering cure |
| doubt tell I had had enough of living life with this | | | | techniques by watching a DVD, or by listening to |
| most frustrating of speech impediments and was | | | | an audio book or by reading a booklet or e-book. |
| desperate to find a solution. My parents were | | | | With the home based/self-help therapy products |
| superb and searched high and low for a suitable | | | | there is often an ongoing support service which |
| stuttering treatment program but unfortunately | | | | enables people to interact with the stuttering |
| they could not ultimately locate the answers that | | | | specialist to ensure maximum results (fluency). |
| we were all looking for. This was fully seventeen | | | | This is an essential back up which often comes at |
| years, before the birth of the internet and I am | | | | no additional cost. If this continued support |
| happy to report that the treatments for | | | | network is not on offer then it would be advisable |
| stuttering have improved a great deal since then. | | | | to find an alternative stuttering solution. |
| People who have a stutter are now able to | | | | |