| Are you OK Steve, you look like you have been | | | | managed to attain my goal of total fluency. |
| crying? I need your help mum? Why what is the | | | | Fast forward to 2010 - what forms of specialised |
| matter? It is this stupid stutter - it is ruining my | | | | stuttering therapy are available today? And what |
| life; I am a lauging stock at school. Do you want | | | | is meant by the word specialised stammering |
| me to telephone the speech and language | | | | stuttering treatments? Specialised is where the |
| therapist again Steve to book you another | | | | therapy is via a person who has previously had |
| appointment with her? Mum I do not want to | | | | this form of speech impediment and therefore |
| sound negative but that is the last thing that I | | | | has a good comprehension of the effects of |
| want you to do - I have been attending various | | | | stuttering. |
| forms of speech and language therapy for the | | | | Specialised stuttering treatments for 2010: |
| past ten years and I am worse now than I have | | | | 1. A DVD containing techniques to help eradicate |
| ever been. What I now need mum is a much | | | | the stutter |
| more specialised form of stuttering therapy - | | | | 2. An e-book |
| therapy from a person who perhaps understands | | | | 3. A one-to-one intensive five-day speech course |
| what I am going through because the speech | | | | for people who stutter |
| therapists certainly don't. No problem Steve - I | | | | 4. An audio book |
| can see your thinking here and I will start to | | | | 5. A weekend speech course |
| make some enquiries. | | | | There sure are many more specialised therapy |
| This was a conversation that I had with my | | | | options today than there was during the period |
| mother when I was aged fourteen. I would have | | | | when I had the stutter! |
| to wait another eight years before I finally | | | | |