Recover From Stuttering - Achieve Fluent Speech

Do you live in fear of your stutter? Do you desire to control your stutter rather than it controlling you? Are you motivated enough to change the way you speak and think? If you have decided that you want to recover from stuttering, it will be helpful to understand some of the steps involved in the Recovery Process:

• Realise that your stuttering is unlikely to magically disappear on its own.
• Pay attention to how you physically use your tongue, lips, and voice box to produce sounds. A degree of tensing of these muscles is necessary to produce fluent speech. However, people who stutter often tense these muscles too much. When you pay attention to your speech structures, you can better understand how you interfere with their normal functioning during stuttering.
• Pay attention to how it feels to make the sounds and words as you speak.
• Realise that continuous airflow is an important factor in fluent speech.
• Practise your new fluency technique whenever you speak.
• Acknowledge, in an open and matter-of-fact manner, that you stutter. You could say, "By the way, I'm a recovering stutterer and I'm going to use this opportunity to practise my new speech technique." Disclosure is a proactive strategy. Expose your technique and embrace the support that people give you.
• Realise that it will take some perseverance and determination to control your speech. However, the recovery process actually requires less effort than struggling to hide or fight your stutter.
• Access support from other recovering stutterers.
• Consciously direct your thoughts so new positive thought patterns can be developed.

Achieving fluent speech can improve many aspects of your life. The stuttering recovery process is a life-changing experience. Join me on a quest to recover from stuttering.

Dave E is one of the directors of Ezy-Speech, a complete in-home stuttering therapy and support program for adolescents and adults. Ezy-Speech has been developed via a successful collaboration between both clinicians and recovering stutterers. For more information, visit the website: http://www.ezyspeech.com.au.