| In regard to stuttering / stammering treatment, | | | | These people found themselves good |
| I'm getting well and truly fed up reading about | | | | science-based therapy treatment. With a good |
| sites on the internet offering quick fixes for | | | | deal of self-motivation, discipline, help and support |
| people who stutter. "We can cure your stutter in | | | | from many like-minded individuals, these people |
| a few minutes", as well as other outlandish | | | | are currently managing their stutters and |
| statements including offers claiming to turn a | | | | achieving excellent levels of fluency. |
| person's stutter into perfect fluency overnight. | | | | Any therapy program that doesn't include good |
| Other than making outrageous statements and | | | | cognitive treatment is not targeting the very |
| promises, many snake-oil offers tell you virtually | | | | important issues of prevailing negative causal |
| nothing of the treatment offered and give no | | | | thoughts and anxiety-driven social phobias that |
| details of what's behind these miraculous cures. | | | | tend to go hand in hand with stuttering. People |
| From what I have seen and read, many | | | | who are anxious about their stutter should be |
| underhanded individuals are claiming cures, while | | | | looking for a treatment program that offers solid |
| simply only offering downloadable tips and | | | | science-based therapy coupled with strong |
| suggestions as to how people should be thinking | | | | emphasis on cognitive guidance and ongoing |
| and speaking. | | | | support systems. |
| The fact is, stuttering can't be cured, only | | | | As a recovering stutterer, I can say to you that |
| managed. Happily, I must announce, many people | | | | it is definitely not gloom and doom. People can and |
| have managed to turn around their dysfluency to | | | | do access excellent therapy and support, it is out |
| the point where you would not even know that | | | | there! Therapy programs are now available that |
| they had stutters. Having been involved in the | | | | you can actually undertake in the comfort of your |
| Australian Speak Easy Association for 20 years, I | | | | own home. There is a reliable home-based |
| have met and become friends with many people | | | | program on the Internet that offers |
| who stutter. Well over half these individuals are | | | | science-based therapy and ongoing support with |
| succeeding to control their dysfluencies to the | | | | speech coaches, a speech pathologist and |
| point where their stuttering problem is no longer | | | | psychologist. |
| an issue in their lives. They have managed to | | | | So, join with me, ignore the quackery claiming |
| improve their fluency outcome, but not by | | | | stuttering cures, and let's follow that road to |
| succumbing to one of the many outlandish | | | | fluency. |
| money-making 'cure-your-stutter-overnight' offers. | | | | |