This article describes the type of stutter speech courses which are available. In general they are designed to help people who stutter to achieve fluency.
The speech coach will spend part of the first and second day to give full explanations of each of the techniques used to eradicate the stammer.
The opening day is quite often seen as the most important day of the course. This is the client’s easy day, as the coach will do most of the talking, explaining in detail around half of the speech rules required to beat the stammer. They are likely to ask the client to talk about their history, including information about how their stutter started, about their family, about their interests, plus any other information they would like to disclose; for example, where they work. Further speech rules are explained in depth before the final speech task of the first day.
The second day is when the course really starts in ernest. The nerves from the opening day have normally in the majority of clients disappeared and therefore the hard work can really begin. The remaining techniques are described and coached on this day.
The final three days are spent practising, enabling the rules to start becoming embedded as a natural part of the client’s speech.
Some of the areas included in the courses could be:
1. The reasons why people start to stammer.
2. Telephone technique.
3. Interview technique.
4. Public speaking technique.
5. The speech rules:
The person who has a stutter should not worry about the contents of the how to stop stammering course. If there is an area of the course that they would rather not cover or do they simply do not normally have to do it.
Each course is unique, as every stutterer is different; this is why courses are usually run on a one-to-one basis.
Stephen Hill is somebody who has overcome a stammer/stutter and who now helps other people to achieve fluency. Stephen runs one to one speech courses held in Birmingham, England. There are of course people out there who for a variety of reasons are unable to attend such a speech course. For people in this situation there is a 70 minute self-help stuttering therapy DVD available. His main website is at stammering-stuttering.co.uk.
