| There are now various forms of speech therapy | | | | form of speech impediment and who have |
| course for stuttering, in this article I will be writing | | | | actually managed to eradicate it from their |
| about the three day intensive courses that are | | | | speech and their lives. The courses are therefore |
| available for people who have this form of speech | | | | much more specialised than that of the ones |
| impediment. | | | | offered by your typical speech and language |
| Now I am not writing about your typical course | | | | therapist. |
| which are run by a speech and language therapist. | | | | The fact that the speech coaches who run these |
| The majority of people who have a stutter are | | | | intensive three-day speech courses have |
| fully aware that speech and language therapy is | | | | previously had a stutter make these type of |
| unable to help them to achieve fluency. During the | | | | courses much sought after. During the three days |
| fourteen years that I attended speech therapy | | | | the person attending the course will hear, first |
| classes and speech therapy courses that were | | | | hand, just what it takes to be able to achieve |
| conducted by my local speech and language | | | | fluency. They are taught a set of stuttering |
| therapists my own stutter actually became even | | | | therapy techniques, techniques which when |
| more severe. I am not blaming the fact that my | | | | practiced will provide them with the answers and |
| speech problem became worse on these speech | | | | solutions to their speech problems. |
| therapists however I had hoped that my speech | | | | At the end of the course the course attendee |
| and my fluency would have improved. I did attend | | | | returns back to their home but that is not where |
| numerous forms of speech therapy for fourteen | | | | the coaching ends as they are encouraged to |
| years after all! | | | | keep in regular contact with the speech coach to |
| The speech courses that I am concentrating on | | | | ensure that the fluency continues. This continued |
| for this article are the ones that are run by | | | | support is available for as long as is required and is |
| people who have some personal experience of | | | | an essential part of this popular stuttering course. |
| stuttering, people who have previously had this | | | | |