I am Stephen Hill from Birmingham in England. I started to
stutter at the age of four or five. My parents took me to a lot
of different types of speech therapy, some in groups, some on a
one to one basis. The kind of advice I was given to control my
stutter or to overcome my stutter were varied. These are some:
slowing down my breath costal breathing prolonged speech taking
a deep breath before I spoke
I had began in the class called, preschool stutter. This term is
labelled by the stutter speech therapist or the stutter speech
pathologist. My parents were reassured that most people who
stutter in childhood soon grow out of it. Well I was one of
those who didn't.
I then joined the class called, childhood stutter. I continued
to attend speech therapy and joining in with their speech
therapy activities and their speech therapy games.
I then progressed to the class called, adult stutter. I now
decided that speech therapy was not really working for me.
I decided to try my own form of stutter self help. Even though I
had a stutter, at times I could talk very well. As an example
when I was drunk, I spoke nearly perfectly fluent.
After nearly a year I managed to overcome my stutter and
eradicate the stutter once and for all. As a career I now help
other people to stop stuttering.
I offer various types of stuttering therapy, the most popular of
which are one to one speech therapy courses which are held in
Birmingham, England. I now offer three day courses aswell as the
original five day courses. For people who would prefer a form of
stuttering self help, I offer a seventy minute dvd which also
comes with a written booklet called the course notes. These
notes and the dvd have full descriptions of each of the
techniques I teach on the speech course as well as the forms of
practice to use to enable those techniques to become a natural
part of the persons speech. I have had a very positive feedback
from the people who have purchased this form of stuttering self
help.
About the author:
Stephen Hill has a number of websites including:
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