How To Stop Stuttering
This article describes the type of stutter speech courses which are available. The purpose is to enable a person who has a stutter to overcome the speech impediment and to attain total fluency.
During the first couple of days of the course, this is where the speech coach normally describes the techniques which are required to overcome the stammer.
The opening day is quite often seen as the most important day of the course. This is the client’s easy day, as the coach will do most of the talking, explaining in detail around half of the speech rules required to beat the stammer. They are likely to ask the client to talk about their history, including information about how their stutter started, about their family, about their interests, plus any other information they would like to disclose; for example, where they work. Further speech rules are explained in depth before the final speech task of the first day.
On the second day the client becomes more involved, starting to put into practice what they have learnt from the previous day. The remaining techniques are described and coached on this day.
The final three days are spent practising, enabling the rules to start becoming embedded as a natural part of the client’s speech.
Some of the areas included in the courses could be:
1. Why people stammer.
2. Telephone technique.
3. Interview technique.
4. Public speaking technique.
5. The speech rules:
The person who has a stutter should not worry about the contents of the how to stop stammering course. If there is a particular section in the course that the client does not feel comfortable doing they simply do not do it – this is something that very rarely happens however as there is nothing in such a course which should make people react this way.
Each course is unique, as every stutterer is different; this is why courses are usually run on a one-to-one basis.
Stephen Hill is somebody who has overcome a stammer/stutter and who now helps other people to achieve fluency. Stephen runs one to one speech courses held in Birmingham, England. There are of course people out there who for a variety of reasons are unable to attend such a speech course. For people in this situation there is a 70 minute self-help stuttering therapy DVD available. His main website is at stammering-stuttering.co.uk.