| I have a question for people who have a stutter. | | | | "I know Steve; I can see how frustrated you are. |
| How many of you found speech therapy to be of | | | | I well help you in any way that I can. Just tell me |
| benefit? How many of you were able to achieve | | | | what you want me to do and I will do it. I can't |
| fluency after attending speech therapy? How | | | | say that I know how it feels as I have never had |
| many of the speech therapists that you met | | | | a stutter but I can see how much it impacts on |
| were aware of how to cure a stutter? You may | | | | your life." |
| wonder why I am asking these questions. Well I | | | | "Well this speech therapy that I am attending is |
| developed a stutter when I was a very young | | | | certainly not the answer mom. I need to seek |
| child; I attended speech therapy for the next | | | | specialist help, help from somebody who |
| fourteen years and have to say that I found it to | | | | specialises in helping people who stutter to achieve |
| be a complete waste of time. What I needed was | | | | fluency." |
| a specialist course for people who stutter. | | | | "OK Steve I will look into it for you. I can not |
| "I have just about as much as I can take mom; | | | | promise anything however I will try my best." |
| this stutter is ruining my life. Why do I have a | | | | This was a conversation that I had with my |
| stutter? How come all of my friends are able to | | | | mother when I was aged around sixteen years of |
| speak fluently? It just isn't fair mom. I would love | | | | age. As you can see I was at the stage where I |
| to just have one day where I can live free from | | | | needed to find a cure to stuttering. Speech |
| the fear of stuttering. Fluent people do not realise | | | | therapy had not worked and I was now seeking |
| how lucky they are." | | | | a new form of specialist stuttering therapy. |