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Expert Help For Stammering |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 10 September 2009 15:51 |
The general feeling from those people involved within offering "stammering treatment", such as myself, is that there are basically two forms of therapy; there is the more traditional types of speech and language therapy and secondly there are the expert stammering treatments.
 The traditional speech and language therapists do have their place and there uses however they will fully admit that they do not even attempt to cure the person who has a stammer as in their opinion this is not possible. Before you become too down hearted, that is of course if you are a person that has a stammer, I can confirm that they are in fact in-correct. I am living proof that stammering can be overcome as I have managed to achieve fluency (I had a stammer for fully eighteen years of my life).
The experts in the field of stammering therapy have a sole aim to help people to achieve total fluency which is a much more positive approach and one which is widely welcomed. I would always prefer a positive approach to a negative approach.
You may feel that I am rather bitter after all I am somebody that attended speech and language therapy for fourteen years! Yes fourteen years of therapy and I was still stammering at the end of it; I guess I had a right to be slightly bitter! I have to say that back then speech therapy seemed to be the only option; this was prior to the birth of the internet.
I am fully aware that speech and language therapy is ofen free from charge; it is just that I had such a bad experience of using these so called specialists.
I imagine that over the last fourteen years that the quality of speech therapy has improved some what, at least I would hope that it has!
A real specialist in the field of stammering would be, in my opinion, a person that fully comprehends what it is like to have this form of speech impediment and only a person that has had a stammer can really have this understanding. How many speech therapists do you know that have or used to have a stammer? I think that says it all!
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