| Are you looking for a speech course for | | | | was because there were no other stuttering |
| stammering or stuttering? Do you want to | | | | therapy options available at the time. |
| eradicate your stutter from your life? Has your | | | | This was all quite a long time ago; after all I was |
| stutter had a damaging affect on your overall | | | | aged eighteen in 1991. Speed the clock forward to |
| levels of self-confidence and self-esteem? These | | | | the year 2009 and therapies for stuttering have |
| are three questions which I would have answered | | | | improved tremendously. Traditional speech and |
| yes to as I entered into adult life. I had had a | | | | language therapy is no longer the only option; in |
| stutter since the age of four and was eager to | | | | fact the majority of people who have a stutter |
| find a solution to my problems. I certainly could | | | | now prefer to attend a more specialist speech |
| not contemplate having to live my whole life with | | | | course for stuttering. |
| this form of speech impediment. | | | | These specialised stuttering courses are normally |
| As a youngster my parents had taken me to see | | | | held over a three or five-day period however in |
| the local speech and language therapist however | | | | the last few months a new weekend course has |
| this did not really help me. In fact I continued to | | | | been introduced. This is quite simply a two-day |
| attend various forms of speech and language | | | | shortened version of the main five-day course |
| therapy classes until I was aged eighteen. Looking | | | | and people are able to watch a DVD prior to |
| back I am not entirely sure why I did keep going | | | | attending this weekend course which ensures that |
| back to see the speech therapists as they were | | | | the results are the same, the result of fluency. |
| unable to help me to achieve fluency. I guess it | | | | |