| Hi Mum, have you a spare five minutes for a | | | | lack of progress. |
| quick chat? Of course son, what is on your mind? | | | | My mother and father searched high and low for |
| Well, as you know, I have been attending speech | | | | the latest therapies for stammering and stuttering |
| and language for the past eleven years, ever | | | | however this was before the internet had been |
| since I was a young five year old boy. It is not | | | | introduced to the world and they were unable to |
| exactly helping me, is it? Not really, I have to | | | | locate any treatments that would prove to be |
| agree with you there. I was hoping to try | | | | beneficial for me. |
| something different. I still want to attempt some | | | | Undeterred I continued to believe that I would, |
| form of stuttering treatment as I really need to | | | | one day, be able to eradicate the stammer from |
| find a way to achieve fluency but I am just | | | | my life. This belief finally became a reality at the |
| becoming somewhat disillusioned with this form of | | | | age of twenty-two when I managed to formulate |
| speech therapy. Would you be able to start | | | | my own cure for stuttering. |
| looking around for an alternative therapy for me, | | | | The internet has revolutionised the whole subject |
| alternative to the more traditional forms of | | | | of stuttering therapy and now, just by conducting |
| speech and language therapy? Yes, I will help you | | | | a simple search on a search engine such as |
| as much as I can, you know that son. | | | | Google for phrases such as "stuttering therapy", |
| The above was a segment of a conversation | | | | "stuttering treatments", "stuttering course" and |
| that I had with my mother when I was aged | | | | "speech course for stuttering", enables people to |
| sixteen. I had been attending speech and language | | | | find many different options. These include the |
| for fully eleven years by this point and my | | | | ever popular stuttering therapy course, a course |
| fluency levels had not improved at all in this time. | | | | run by a former stutterer. |
| You can do doubt imagine my frustrations at this | | | | |