OK, so despite your best efforts, via attending speech therapy, you have not been able to achieve fluency. So what are your options now? Where should or could you go to continue your efforts to stop stammering?

Well before I start to write about some potential answers to the above questions I should really introduce myself. I am Steve Hill, a speech coach from England. I am not a speech therapist and nor do I want to be one. I offer an alternative therapy for stuttering and one that works.

I developed a speech impediment, a stutter, when I was a young boy. I attended, via the local hospital, speech therapy. It was of use, possibly even of benefit, however it never really offered me the solutions to stammering/stuttering that I was looking for.

Despite most of the speech therapists being very nice people it was if they had not received the adequate level of training.

There was one especially frustrating moment when I was speaking with a not so nice speech therapist. He stated that there was not a known cure for stuttering. I replied:

“Fair enough. So how are you of the speech and language profession as a whole getting on in finding a cure?”

Speech therapist:

“Ermm, well nothing”

Me

“OK, that’s all very positive! NOT!”

For me the above example summed up my experience of speech therapy; I can only hope that the service has improved since my day!

I did, eventually, overcome the stammer when I was aged twenty-two.

As stated earlier I offer the alternative therapy for stammering and stuttering.

I have a website at http://www.stutter-cure.com which has information about the types of therapy that I offer.

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

Steve Hill, The How To Stop Stuttering Centre