How to Stop Stammering - Why Speech Therapists Don't Help

When I found out how to stop stammering mylike it!
life completely turned around for the better. ForI wanted to speak like everyone else. I wanted to
years I had been suffering with this constantspeak with confidence and most importantly I
speech problem that practically ruined my socialwanted to feel confident when talking to people I
life, making it very difficult for me to meet newhad never met before. Having a stutter made it a
people and make friends. In this article I want toconstant struggle to talk to strangers and I
let you in on what I did to stop stuttering foralways dreaded ordering drinks at the bar or
good, and it's probably not what you're thinking.ordering food. Talking on the phone was literally
You see, people who don't have a stutter justout of the question and it was like a phobia.
don't get this problem at all, which is why I thinkSo how did I learn how to stop stammering? Well
that speech therapists who haven't suffered withafter pointless visits to speech therapists I
this condition can't really relate to you. I know thisdecided to go it alone and try to find out what
because I went back and forth to see a speechthe root cause of stuttering was. Not surprisingly I
therapist for years, and that was hardly a barreldiscovered that having a lack of self confidence
of laughs!and being generally shy can make a stutter
He told me that to learn how to stop stammeringworse, so I needed to learn how to become
I should speak slower, try to make eye contactmore confident.
with people, and practise speaking exercises. So IThis is what I recommend to you too. You need
tried speaking slower, and to be honest it did helpto tackle your stutter head on and raise your self
a tiny bit, but speaking slower just sounded sillyconfidence. Once you become more relaxed in
and I sounded like a robot. People thought thereyour own skin you'll be able to communicate more
was something wrong with me and I just didn'teffectively.