STAMMERING / STUTTERING question?

Question

Anyone know any proven STAMMERING / STUTTERING programs/equipment/etc. personally??

Please only include methods/equipment/tools/programs which you've had personal experience of personally or through a friend/family member - ie. not just seen an ad or heard it 'throught the grape vine'.

Also, how many people on here have a stammer? (any degree, even its maybe the odd words you 'replace' before you say them!)

Many Thanks...

Answer 1

I have several uncles and cousins who stuttered. They all got help through The Stuttering Foundation. Only one could afford to go to one of the specialists that they recommended. The others bought or checked out their book "Self Therapy for the Stutterer" from a library. We family members learned tips for helping them from The Foundation so we learned to pace our speaking and our lives a little slower so they could pace themselves. Because of this, our son made friends with several people who stuttered while he was in school. They were often at our house, and I never heard them stutter. I found out later when parents started getting to know us and saying that their sons always liked coming to our house because they never stuttered there.

One of the teens went to a program, McGuire or Swartz - not sure which, and his parents paid a pile of money. He came back worse than he was before he went. He later went to one of the stuttering specialists and improved so much that he hardly ever stuttered for the rest of high school. We lost track of him when the boys went to different colleges and families moved.

There is a world of information on The Stuttering Foundation's web site at www.stutteringhelp.org. Their books and DVDs are available in most public libraries. If yours doesn't have them, they can get some sent to them free. Just give them the web site and they can download a form from the home page, or you can do it and take it to them. Look for the library icon.

They have made a big difference for our family and several friends. Hopefully, you can find some help, too.

Answer 2

The Stuttering Foundation is to my friend a JOKE! Though they may help somewhat but not to a stutter`s benifit of speaking fluent.The Stuttering Foundation ,AKA stutteringhelp.org is only a site for stutter`s and non-stutter`s to visit to get educated on how stuttering affects a person`s life,in the work place etc.
Stutteringhelp.org has nothing to offer to and/or for the stutter .
There is no cure for stuttering.Stay away from therapist,all they do is drag the treatment out to suck your wallet dry.My friend could not afford $250.00 for an hour every week,not many stutters can,hell stutters have a hard enough time getting a good paying job.A stutter is limited,ITS FACT! A stutter is covered under the Americans with Disabilties Act.
I seen an answer on here to another question,and a person asked whats a good way to stop stuttering?The best answer I seen was for a stutter to read for 2 STRAIGHT HOURS everyday for a month,READING OUT LOUD,Reading in robot speed.Everyday of doing this your speaking will speed up and you will become more fluent if not 100% fluent.Every stutter,stutters different.If scientist cant figure it out,FOR SURE THE LOCAL SPEECH THERAPIST WILL NOT!lol
So if you want to buy a good "Kiddy Stuttering" book,then "The Stuttering Foundation" has a few.If you want help,its something you have to do on your own.Only you know how your brain ticks.
Try the 2 hour thing,my friend is on his second week of doing it,he is already asking to make telephone calls for me now for practice..lol. Coming from a guy who always fear of even answering the phone,its truely a BIG STEP! GodBless.

Answer 3

hi Sukhpreet - I actual have a stammer via the way. at first, while it is composed of employment regulation and form interior the place of work - if the stammer impacts you on a regular basis in any means which differs from the 'frequent guy or woman' then the business enterprise has the duty to make 'genuine looking adjustments' as long as you're making your business enterprise attentive to your incapacity - and likely a stammer is classed as a incapacity. Such adjustments would desire to be made in each point of employment - from recruitment, pay/ bonuses, self-discipline, retirement - each thing (as an occasion; when I went for a job that mandatory me to do a presentation - I have been given quarter-hour, truly than the ten minutes all people else have been given). On yet another observe - i encourage you to do somewhat bit analyze on 'The McGuire Programme'. this is a worldwide, qualified speech scientific care programme, that's taught via different 'improving stammerers' (so understand the whole technique mandatory on your improving in assessment to easily speech therapists) and in fact teaches you an entire new way of conversing that can enable you to earnings administration over your stammer and actual produced some great, valuable audio equipment - much extra acceptable than 'fluent audio equipment'. stable success. James.