My name is Stephen Hill, I have overcome a stutter which had
affected my life for eighteen years. I now help as many other
people who stutter to achieve fluency as I can.
When I had a stutter, I would attend speech therapy, at which I
would be told to slow down or to take a deep breath before
talking. Other tips were to use costal breathing or to prolong
my words.
This did not seem to help me very much and after attending these
speech therapy lessons for eighteen years decided it probably
never would.
I firmly believed that my own stutter was very much a
physcological as well as a physical problem as at times I could
talk very well, like for example when I was talking to my
girlfriend or when I was talking when I was drunk.
I decided to read a lot of books about positive thinking for
example and at the same time started to study how good fluent
talkers were speaking compared to me. I was basically trying to
re-learn how to speak.
It was hard for me to truly believe I would ever be able to
achieve fluency as everyone had always told me that you can not
overcome a stutter.
After about a year though I managed to overcome the stutter and
then started to help other people to achieve fluency.
I have been helping people now for around eight years and have
helped people who stutter from many different countries and
backgrounds.
I run stutter speech therapy courses which are held in
Birmingham in England. They are one to one courses over three or
five days. People leave the course with a booklet which I call
the stammering/stuttering course notes and a seventy minute dvd.
These act as a reminder of what to do. People are also advised
to keep in regular contact with me after the course to ask any
questions which may arise and for additional support.
People who are unable to attend the course are able to purchase
the course notes and dvd as a form of self help.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
About the author:
Steve Hill has a number of websites including:
stuttering
london life
coach
botox center
