Stammering or as most people call it stuttering can have a dramatic affect on ones life and can influence every decision the person who has the stutter has to make. Their are various forms of therapy available for people who stutter some of which will be explained in this article.
I have personal experience of stuttering. My name is Stephen Hill and I developed this form of speech impediment when I was just four years of age. I have asked my parents how and why I started to stutter and they have tried to answer all of my questions in the best way that they can. For whatever reason I was a very shy and nervous young boy who seemed to prefer to play on his own. This is some what strange I know. When I was four a friend of my parents would look after me in the early evening for a few hours and it was at their house where I first started to stutter. This was a shock to this family and also to my parents when they were told. Over the next few years the stutter became gradually worse and we then decided to start seeking ways of curing the speech impediment.
Our first port of call as I am sure it is for most people who stutter was to try traditional speech therapy. Maybe I had a bad attitude towards this form of treatment but I did not ever have any confidence in what they were attempting to teach me or in the potential for this therapy to help or cure me. It was possibly because the speech therapists themselves had not ever had a stutter and that the classes were only very short at an average of only one hour in duration.
I then heard about how hypnosis can help people to eradicate a speech impediment. The hypnotherapist attempts this in many different ways including regression. They regress the person who has the stutter back to when their speech impediment started to find out why it may have occured and to therefore deal with the source of the problem. This form of treatment also did not help me to overcome the stutter.
After years of trying different forms of stuttering therapy I eventually hit gold and was able to achieve fluency. I now help other people to overcome their stuttering problems.
