For those of you who are unfortunate enough to have a stutter I am sure that you will agree with me that there is a lot of rubbish out there in regards to stuttering therapy. I lost count the amount of times that I felt let down after yet another series of stuttering speech therapy sessions. As we start to enter into 2011 there is at least some good news on the horizon for people who stutter, there are now treatments for stuttering that actually work, and I will be writing about them in this article.
So what are your thoughts towards traditional speech and language therapy as a way of helping people who have a stutter to achieve fluency? I, of course, can not be sure as to how the readers of this article will have answered the above question but what I do know is that speech and language therapy alone is unlikely to help people to stop stuttering. Why? How many speech therapists do you know who believe that they can cure a persons stutter or stammer? Yes the answer is a big fat zero. If they do not believe it then there is obviously no way in the world that they will ever be able to achieve it.
So, next question coming up, if there is not a cure for stuttering then how come so many people have managed to eradicate stuttering from their lives?
When seeking any form of therapy it is surely better to see a person who is thinking in a positive manner about the chances of the treatment being successful.
So which stammering and stuttering help treatments do actually work? Well a recent survey highlighted the growing popularity and success of the one-to-one speech courses and their associated products, a course by the way which is run by a person who has, wait for it, overcome a stutter!
There is a great demand for these courses and this is without doubt going to be the future of stuttering therapy, a therapy that works.
