Advice For Children Who Stutter
Do you have a stutter? Does one of your children have a stutter? Do you know somebody who has a stutter? This article is all about the speech impediment known as stuttering or stammering. It includes stuttering advice and also treatments which are available to help people who stutter to achieve fluency.
Stammering or stuttering is a much more widespread impediment that some people might imagine. Latest research suggests that as many as one percent of the population of the UK has a stuttering problem and that around eighty percent of these people are male.
I had a stutter for eighteen years. I have been informed that I started stuttering when I was only four years of age. I regularly attended speech therapy over the next fourteen years before deciding that it was unlikely to ever help me to achieve fluency.
Some people I have met have become extremely good at hiding their own stutter. They have stated that most of the people that they know are not even aware that they have a speech impediment. Some people may well think that it is some what easier for a person with this type of stutter – but this is not always the case. To keep up with hiding and avoiding the stutter is far from easy and takes a huge amount of energy. Life is tough no matter what form of stutter one has.
Other people are not able to hide their stutter in this way and will have what is perceived to be a much more severe stutter – I knew a person who worked for a composite door company who had this form of speech impediment; he did however manage to overcome the problem after attending a stammering cure course.
There are a number of treatments for stuttering including the normal route of speech therapy via the local doctor or hospital. A lot of the people who I have met become rather annoyed at the amount of time that they are asked to wait for this type of speech therapy and become even more annoyed when the therapy actually starts when they realise just how short each session is.
There is also private stop stammering treatments in the form of people who have managed to overcome their own stutter. This can be on a one-to-one basis or in a group situation.
