Kids Stuttering Therapy


The astonishing development in specialised stuttering therapies has been well documented within the media and even Joe Biden, the US vice presidential candidate, has managed to join the debate by stating that he has also managed to overcome a stutter. So what about children who have a stutter, is this stammering therapy of benefit to them as well?

If you ask this question to 100 men who are in their 40s and have this form of speech impediment

Which period of your life has been the most difficult due to your speech impediment? Childhood or adulthood etc?

From the many stutterer’s that I have met since I have been running The How To Stop Stuttering Centre in the UK – I would say that a large percentage of them would say that their childhood was the worst period. Having a stutter can make growing up very difficult especially when you go through those teenage years.

Do kids gain from therapy for stuttering? Well all I can say is that I would have loved somebody to offer me the chance to achieve fluency when I was fourteen years of age, unfortunately this type of specialised stuttering help treatment was not available back then.

To achieve fluency takes a lot of hard work and dedication; that goes without saying. Certain kids are not mature enough or have the conviction to work to the required levels. With their parents help and guidance the therapy will however be of great benefit even to these people as it will at least give them options and make them aware of what they should be doing to speak fluently.

The majority of children would walk to the other side of the world in order to achieve fluency and therefore are more than happy to work very hard towards eradicating the stutter. Specialised stuttering therapy can quite simply change these types of children’s lives – it sure is a lot more beneficial than the traditional forms of speech and language therapy.

Therapies For Stuttering And Stammering

What are the most popular treatments for stuttering? Are you able to overcome a stutter and achieve fluency? How long does it take to achieve fluency? Are there any specialist courses for stuttering that I can attend? Where can I find out more information about how to cure a stutter? These are questions that I am asked on a daily basis and ones which I will be answering in this article.

My name is Stephen Hill and I am a speech coach from the UK. I am a person who had a stutter for eighteen years before finally managing to achieve fluency at the age of 22. I am now thirty-five and for the last thirteen years I have been helping other people to achieve fluency at the How To Stop Stuttering Centre.

The main form of stuttering/stammering treatment that I offer comes in the form of a specialised speech course for stuttering. The courses are on a one-to-one basis which in my opinion is essential. The courses are run in South Birmingham, in England.

The most popular form of therapy that I offer; however; happens to be the seventy minute stuttering cure DVD. The film includes full descriptions of each of the techniques that I teach on the courses.

People are also able to buy an audio book and a stuttering therapy e-book.

Over the last few months I have introduced a couple of new stuttering cure therapy options; the first is fluency coaching over the telephone and the second is stuttering therapy via Skype. These are also starting to become very popular.

The majority of the people who contact me; whether it be via e-mail, telephone or letter are from the United Kingdom however I do receive a lot of interest from the United States, India, Australia, Ireland, Pakistan, Norway and New Zealand. I have a blog at blog.stammering-stuttering.co.uk which has a map that shows people where the visitors to the site are located. This is something that is quite interesting to keep a track of from time to time.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

How I Overcame My Stutter

People who stutter at times seek a way to overcome their speech problem, as having a stutter can at times make life a struggle. For people seeking help to overcome stuttering there are intensive one-to-one speech courses which teach people how to eradicate the stutter and there are numerous self-help products available such as a DVD, an audio-book and a DVD.

Since overcoming my own stutter, I am now able to order food and drink for example, without fear of stuttering or stammering as some people call it. I am able to talk on the telephone and am able to enjoy socialising without the fear of stuttering. My overall life has improved one hundred percent. Out has gone the depressive, sad, moody young man and in has arrived a positive, confident and happy slightly older man. I appreciate my speech compared with the average fluent person, who do not realise how lucky they are. I have even been accused of talking too much, but this is something I will never apologise for – when I had a stutter I hardly spoke at all.

Ten years ago I met my present girlfriend, Sharron, who has an fifteen-year-old daughter, called Taryn. Together we have a son who is nine years old, called Ethan.

My fiancee has helped me as she is an extremely upbeat person who has a very much care-free attitude to life.

I have now become far more successful in my business life where I offer cheap calls as I work with a business cost reduction specialist.

I have to say that this success is mainly due to the fact that I can now talk free from stuttering and with the added confidence that has given me. It certainly was not easy and it took quite a long time (around eleven months) but it was well worth all of the effort.

I now feel free, like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. My self confidence and self esteem levels have increased no end.

The Search For A Cure For Stuttering

Are you looking for techniques that can help you to eradicate your stutter? Has speech and language therapy or pathology been unable to help you to the levels that you require? Have you had enough of accepting second best in life? The above three questions are ones that I would regularly answer in the positive during the eighteen years when I had a stutter. I was constantly looking for that miracle “stuttering cure”.

Now I am fully aware to call it a stuttering cure is not exactly what some people would call the “correct English” but I basically was looking for a way or a set of techniques that could enable me to “stop stuttering“. At there time there were not that many stuttering therapies out there, or at least not ones that were worthy of the name.

I always find it strange when I read about the so called National Associations for Stuttering or Stammering. I am not exactly sure why but they seem to have a habit of referring people to a speech therapist. Well that is a great referral! Why refer to me a person who has absolutely no comprehension on this type of speech impediment and a person who openly admits that they are unable to coach me to fluency? Speech therapy does not work for people who stutter, well not to the levels that they desire – again to stop stuttering completely and let’s face it anything else is to accept second best.

I searched high and low in my quest to find the solutions to stuttering. I read many a book, asked many a question and studied many of the “best talkers”.

I put in a massive amount of effort, hard work and dedication as that is what is required. The majority of people are fully aware and accept that there is not one magical pill that can cure a stutter. What is required is a desire to succeed and a willingness to work hard to ensure that the techniques become second nature.

There is now a seventy-minute film which has been produced by the How To Stop Stuttering Centre which has full explanations of the techniques required to achieve fluency.