stuttering success stories

For many sufferers, learning of stuttering success stories can act as the spur to continue with treatment, when despondency creeps in. There are many, many schools and centres dedicated to helping stutterers and much of what they teach is focuses on patience and understanding. Many stuttering success stories come about through the acceptance of parents that there is a problem, but by adapting their basic behaviour in the home environment, and altering their speech to a slow and deliberate manner, plus pausing before responding to a question from the child; positive results can be achieved. These centres concentrate on teaching the importance of taking turns in conversation and slowing down and have a high rate of stuttering success stories.

Many stuttering success stories often occur after the realisation that it is not just a speech problem, but muscle tension throughout the whole body. Through developed habits the chest, legs and feet are held tight and lips and jaw tensed up, coupled with shallow breathing. Words are forced out, using great effort and strain in the whole body. With skill and encouragement much of this stress can be relieved and reactions become sharper, freer and easier. These stuttering success stories are not cures for stuttering and old habits can return, but by slowing down a little and interrupting the pattern of interference even before it starts, the sufferer will notice their speech to be more fluent and relaxed and be another statistic in the stuttering success stories.