Can You Cure a Stammer?

You may have heard or you may have beenyears and have written many articles on the
advised that there is no known cure forsubject.
stammering. Is this correct? Fortunately theWhat amazes me and also often annoys me is
answer to this question is a definite no. So whythe fact that only one speech therapist has
do so called specialists keep advising people tocontacted me during these last thirteen years to
accept the fact that they have a stammer? Wellask about my methods. There are numerous
for the real answer to this question you will haveorganisations out there who call themselves
to ask the speech therapists themselves, whatspecialists in the subject of stammering or
these people should be saying is that they arestuttering but who have never contacted me. So
unable to provide you with a cure for stammeringhave they ever heard of me? You bet they do!
- that does not mean that other people will notHow do I know this? Well because I have
be able to.contacted them in an attempt to advise them of
I am a person who has successfully managed tothe best ways to treat stammering. So what was
overcome my own stammer, a stammer thattheir response? Well to put it politely they were
had affected my life for eighteen years. It wasnot interested. Why? Who knows? It is like they
not easy to achieve fluency; I had to workdo not want to find a cure for stammering. Crazy!
extremely hard for a long period of time toMy advice to people who stammer is this; there is
ensure that the techniques that I had establishedno need to accept second best, do not listen to
became a natural part of my overall speech.negative people, if you are willing to work very
These efforts were more than worth it and myhard then fluency is achievable and to never give
life has improved no end. I have now enjoyed theup.
freedom of fluent speech for the last thirteen