| What types of speech pathology service are | | | | simply, because the treatments that are offered |
| available in the UK? Do the speech therapy | | | | through traditional speech therapists do not work, |
| treatments differ from the ones that are available | | | | they do not help the person to achieve fluency. |
| in other countries in the world? Speech pathology | | | | I am not totally against speech therapy, I am |
| for stuttering has come along way in the last ten | | | | sure that the speech therapists help many people |
| years and in this article I will be discussing the | | | | each and every day. I can only go by my own |
| forms of therapy that are now available to people | | | | experiences and of the people that I have spoken |
| who stutter in the United Kingdom and the rest | | | | with, I personally attended speech therapy for |
| of the world. | | | | fully fourteen years and was still stuttering at the |
| Are you aware of just how many people in the | | | | end of this period, in fact the problem had |
| UK have a stuttering problem? Do you know | | | | become even more severe. |
| somebody who has a stutter or as some people | | | | There are now many more stuttering therapy |
| call it a stammer? Do you have a stutter or | | | | options available to people. These include attending |
| stammer? Well the latest studies have reported | | | | one-to-one and group speech courses, some of |
| that around one in every hundred people do in | | | | which are run by people who have managed to |
| fact stutter, this is a huge number and stuttering | | | | overcome their own stutter. There are also |
| is therefore much more widespread than the so | | | | self-help alternatives for people who feel that |
| called experts had thought in the past. | | | | they do not have the confidence to attend any |
| So what are the treatments for stuttering? For | | | | form of speech course. |
| many a year the only form of treatment for | | | | The internet has meant that the types of |
| stammering or stuttering was via a local speech | | | | therapy for stuttering have become universal with |
| therapy unit, these were normally located within a | | | | people from each country able to search on the |
| hospital. So why did this approach not work or | | | | major search engines, such as Google, for the |
| satisfy the people who had a stutter? Quite | | | | latest stuttering treatments. |