| I am Stephen Hill from Birmingham in England. I | | | | continued to attend speech therapy and joining in |
| started to stutter in childhood at the age of four | | | | with their speech therapy activities and their |
| or five. I attended a lot of different types of | | | | speech therapy games. |
| speech therapy, some in groups, some on a one | | | | I then progressed to the class called, adult |
| to one basis. I have had lots of stuttering advice | | | | stuttering. I now decided that speech therapy |
| on how to stop stuttering. These are | | | | was not really working for me. |
| some:slowing down my breathcostal | | | | I decided to try my own form of stutter self |
| breathingprolonged speechtaking a deep breath | | | | help. |
| before I spoke | | | | Even though I had a stutter, at times I could talk |
| I had began in the class called, preschool | | | | very well. As an example when I was drunk, I |
| stuttering. This term is labelled by the stuttering | | | | spoke nearly perfectly fluent. |
| speech therapist or the stuttering speech | | | | After nearly a year I managed to overcome |
| pathologist. My parents were reassured that most | | | | stuttering and eradicate the stutter once and for |
| people who stutter in childhood soon grow out of | | | | all. As a career I now help other people to stop |
| it. Well I was one of those who didn't. | | | | stuttering. |
| I then joined the class called, childhood stuttering. I | | | | |