Speech Therapy Courses For Stuttering and Stammering

Mar 08

Speech Therapy Courses For Stuttering and Stammering

This article will provide information about the ever popular one-to-one stuttering therapy courses. This will include info about the content of the course, the length of the courses and also about the availability of the speech course.

Over the last fifteen years treatments for the speech impediment known as stuttering or stammering have improved tremendously. Prior to this time the only real form of stuttering and stammering therapy came via a person’s local speech and language therapist. Unfortunately, as the majority of people who have a stammer or stutter will tell you, speech therapy is unable to provide the answers people are looking for with the speech therapists fully acknowledging that they are unable to coach people to fluency. Their advice instead focuses on a form of acceptance to the fact that a person has this form of speech impediment. They believe that if a person is able to accept that they have a stutter that their lives will improve and become far easier! Well they are entitled to their opinion I suppose.

I was one person who was never ever going to accept the stutter that was damaging my life in such a massive way. After eighteen very difficult years of having a stutter I finally managed to achieve total fluency at the age of twenty-two.

The specialist speech courses that are now available are held over a three or five-day period however there are also the occasional weekend course on offer. The techniques that are taught focus on enabling the person to speak in a normal fluent way, therefore it does not teach any form of prolonged speech, slowed speech or costal breathing. People want to overcome their stutter to be able to speak in the same way that other fluent people do and this is the aim of the course, anything else would be just second best.