Do you stammer when you have to speak in front of someone or a gathering?

Then this article is meant for you. If you are looking forward to achieve fluency, read on. This article will interest you as it looks at the speech impediment such as stammering and stuttering. I am Steve Hill. Since the age of four I have been suffering with a stutter. Though I had regular conventional speech therapy sessions, I continued to stutter till the age of twenty two.

Life was extremely frustrating when I used to stutter. But there were times when I could speak very well too. Whenever I used to speak to my ex- girlfriend, I rarely ever stuttered. But it was quite disheartening that when I attempted to speak to her parents, I struggled quite a lot.

I noticed that whenever I was drunk, my fluency level used to improve tremendously and at that time if I used to stutter, it came to me as a shock!

I could never deduce that why I used to stutter talking to some person when I was totally fluent speaking to the other. Also I found it hard to understand that why I could speak without any problem when I was drunk and stutter when I was sober.

Tired of my situation, I read as many books as I could find about speech impediments and achieving fluency and stuttering. I also made contacts with some of the speech therapists. After having read these books and conversing with the therapists, I was told and was made to believe that I could not lead a stuttering free life as it suggested that you are unable to eradicate stutter.

It was indeed a negative attitude and I could not accept what I was hearing and reading because I knew that I was able to talk very well without stuttering at all at times.

One day while watching television I came across Bruce Willis’ interview. Now I consider myself fortune enough to have seen it. In that interview Bruce Willis stated that he too suffered from the problem of stuttering which started when he was a young boy. However by the time he reached his late teenage, he had managed to attain fluency. I was inspired by it tremendously and it was then that I decided that I would attempt and overcome my speech impediment.

It took a year’s intense labor and hard work for me to overcome my speech impediment. I never lost the hope and kept thinking positive. Pouring over books and by basically studying the people whom I thought were great speakers, I managed to beat my stutter. Now I have made it my career, I help people achieve fluency.