Is There a Cure For Stammering?

I often wonder why speech therapists and otherone-to-one stammering speech courses, which
so called specialists continue to advise that thereare normally held over a three or five-day period,
is no known cure for stammering. It is widelyto self-help therapy products which include audio
known, especially here in the UK, that for peoplebooks, DVD's and e-books.
who are determined to work hard and who areThe speech coaches who are offering these
prepared to put in the required amount offorms of stammering treatments are usually
practice that stammering can be overcome.people who have managed to overcome a
What's more many many people have managedstammer themselves and who therefore fully
to achieve fluency and are now able to enjoy aunderstand what it is like to have this form of
life free from the fear of stammering.speech impediment.
I am asked on a regular basis whether there is aSo is there a cure for stammering? Yes there is!
cure for stammering. The people asking theSo why do speech therapists say otherwise? Well
question have often been mis-informed by theirwho knows the answer to this question. Perhaps
local speech therapist and are then more thana few of them could answer the question for
pleased to be told differently.themselves. It could well be because they are
The majority of people who have a stammer areunable to provide the stammering cure through
fully prepared to put in the necessary requiredtheir own speech therapy.
hours of practice as they are determined toSo why do the speech therapists not attempt to
achieve fluency. There are numerous forms ofdevelop their skills by contacting the people who
stammering therapy that can help them to attainare able to offer a cure to stammering? Again
their goal of fluency. These range fromwho knows? I certainly do not.