| This article will provide information about the ever | | | | to accept that they have a stutter that their lives |
| popular one-to-one stuttering therapy courses. | | | | will improve and become far easier! Well they are |
| This will include info about the content of the | | | | entitled to their opinion I suppose. |
| course, the length of the courses and also about | | | | I was one person who was never ever going to |
| the availability of the speech course. | | | | accept the stutter that was damaging my life in |
| Over the last fifteen years treatments for the | | | | such a massive way. After eighteen very difficult |
| speech impediment known as stuttering or | | | | years of having a stutter I finally managed to |
| stammering have improved tremendously. Prior to | | | | achieve total fluency at the age of twenty-two. |
| this time the only real form of stuttering and | | | | The specialist speech courses that are now |
| stammering therapy came via a person's local | | | | available are held over a three or five-day period |
| speech and language therapist. Unfortunately, as | | | | however there are also the occasional weekend |
| the majority of people who have a stammer or | | | | course on offer. The techniques that are taught |
| stutter will tell you, speech therapy is unable to | | | | focus on enabling the person to speak in a normal |
| provide the answers people are looking for with | | | | fluent way, therefore it does not teach any form |
| the speech therapists fully acknowledging that | | | | of prolonged speech, slowed speech or costal |
| they are unable to coach people to fluency. Their | | | | breathing. People want to overcome their stutter |
| advice instead focuses on a form of acceptance | | | | to be able to speak in the same way that other |
| to the fact that a person has this form of speech | | | | fluent people do and this is the aim of the course, |
| impediment. They believe that if a person is able | | | | anything else would be just second best. |