| Stuttering or stammering as it is sometimes is called, is | | | | they had never actually had a stuttering or stammering |
| a disability which can have a hugely negative impact | | | | problem? |
| on a persons life. I know from personal experience just | | | | I also attended group forms of speech therapy. I have |
| how negative this impact can be, as I developed a | | | | to say that I used to dread going to these group |
| stutter when I was four years of age. This speech | | | | events and meeting other people who had a stammer, |
| impediment then continued to ruin my life for the next | | | | looking back I am not totally sure why I hated it so |
| eighteen years. Years ago when my parents were | | | | much but I did. The benefit of this therapy was lets say |
| looking at finding a cure for my stutter, there were not | | | | not a lot for someone like myself as I found it very |
| that many options available, however in the present | | | | easy to hide in these group situations and to hardly |
| day there is a lot more hope and treatments to help | | | | actually participate at all. Some would say that I was |
| people to stop stuttering. | | | | not exactly determined to achieve fluency at this |
| The types of treatment that I attended when I was | | | | stage given my bad attitude, but this was not the case |
| young was basically the traditional speech therapy. | | | | at all, I just had no confidence in what I was being |
| This therapy was normally on a one-to-one basis | | | | advised. |
| which is what I prefer. The problem is mainly that the | | | | Nowadays therapy for stuttering has improved no end |
| sessions were far too short as they only lasted for | | | | and just by searching in google under the terms of |
| about one hour. I also did not really have full confidence | | | | stuttering advice, stuttering treatments or stuttering |
| in the actual speech therapists themselves, in their | | | | therapy, will provide many different types of help for |
| ability to be able to help me or even to understand | | | | people who have a stutter. |
| what I was going through. How could they in reality as | | | | |