| It is the start of a new year; this is a time where | | | | it, it was so frustrating. |
| most people attempt to think about the ways in | | | | I am a bit of a weird chap, very competitive, |
| which they can improve their life. Some of these | | | | somebody who hates losing and a fighter. Despite |
| people will have a speech impediment and may | | | | being told at the age of eighteen, by a rather |
| have decided that 2008 will be the year that they | | | | annoying and negative speech therapist, that |
| attempt to achieve fluency. In this article I am | | | | there was no cure for stuttering, I refused to |
| going to be writing about the different forms of | | | | give in. I felt sure that he was wrong as at times |
| speech therapy courses that are available. | | | | I could talk as fluent as the next man. For |
| Firstly let me introduce myself, I am Steve Hill, | | | | example when I was drunk I was fine. |
| aged thirty four, from Birmingham in the UK. I am | | | | Eventually I did succeed; I had waged war on my |
| somebody who suffered with a stutter or a | | | | inner demons and came out on top. This was |
| stammer as some people call it, from the ages of | | | | twelve years ago. |
| four to twenty-two. Those of you who have this | | | | Speech courses these days have improved some |
| form of speech impediment will know exactly | | | | what. People are now able to attend group or |
| how it can affect one's life, however for those | | | | one-to-one courses with speech therapists or |
| who do not, let's just say it is a complete | | | | alternatively with people who have actually had a |
| nightmare. | | | | speech impediment themselves. |
| Even the most simplest of tasks became a choir | | | | I hope that one day your dream of fluency will |
| and the stutter seemed to be on my mind | | | | also come true. |
| constantly. Every decision I made was dictated by | | | | |