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You will be surprised to know that nearly one per cent of the total world population stutters. Stuttering is a condition for which there is no medical cure and more men than women tend to get affected with this. There are several different ways that stuttering can take place but there is no cure for it.

Many people will pick up stuttering while they are very young and during adolescents, some of them will even outgrow this speech condition. However, some people may not be able to stop stuttering as they age and this may continue into their adult years, making them very uncomfortable when they speak to other people.

Let us look at some simple and interesting tips on how to stop stuttering:

Some people have found that singing the words that they want to say can make them stop stuttering. You might think of it as a weird idea but when you practice it, you will be surprised at the effectiveness.

You can get a book and try reading from it, to your family and friends. This will help you feel better speaking in front of others.

Before you actually start speaking, visualize the words that you want to use.

Talk slowly and clearly. You want to be able to focus on what you are saying.

Breathe deep before you say a word that is really large and long. If possible try breaking the word into smaller pieces, so that you do not get struck with one word.

If you think chewing on something when you speak, helps control stuttering, try it.

Try speaking either very loudly or in whispers. Both these methods will help eliminate stuttering.

Do not hold your breath while you are speaking because it makes things worse. You want to be able to speak when you exhale.

Stuttering gets worse when you are tense. Calm your nerves before you start speaking. Find a way to calm down.

Relax yourself before you talk. Think about your words before you start talking.

Do not try to get everything out at one time. Speak one word at a time and slowly complete the sentence.

All these wonderful tips will help you get rid of stuttering. You want to practice all of these things so that you will get better and more relaxed as you speak.

So what causes stuttering? It is important to learn how to stop stuttering today.

Stuttering is a speech disorder where the individual’s natural flow of speech is disrupted by frequent repetitions or prolongations of certain sounds, syllables and words. Sometimes, this makes it impossible to even say even just a single word. A person who stutters can also experience rapid eye blinks, trembling lips and jaw and sometimes, the upper body. There is no certain cause of stuttering but experts say things can get worse because of stress. According to them, one of the best ways on how to stop stuttering is to learn how to manage stress.

I have a classmate once in elementary grade who stutters when he tried to speak in front of the class when the teacher tells us to do so. He will start to tremble, fix his eyes on the floor, both hand clasped against each other, he starts to talk but stutters and before you know it, he will break down in tears. Now, after 25 years, we met again in our general alumni homecoming and we were all surprised that he doesn’t stutter anymore. He had found a way to stop stuttering and we were even more surprised when he told us he just learned how to do that just a few months back.

Oh my, I thought out loud, how can he ever get through life when he was stammering all this time? Well, I don’t know the answer but I’m sure was glad to find out that he had learned how to stop stuttering and according to him, he had done it in a natural and safe way- no drugs. He added that he he had discovered a remedy for stuttering through the Net. He related to us how he had learned of this Stop Stuttering System, a combination of a book and a video course and how it had helped him get rid of his problem the soonest possible time. We were even more surprised when he went onstage and read a letter from one of our dear teachers congratulating us.

I developed a stutter or as some people call it a stammer in childhood. From what my parents tell me it started when I was four years of age.

Despite regular speech therapy over the next fourteen years my stutter became worse. I remember quite clearly the fear of having to read out from a book in class. Walking into the classroom, for example an English lesson, I would see that there was a book on each desk. My mind would begin to stress and would think that the tutor would ask me to read from the book. Just waiting my turn, knowing that it would result in yet another one of those stuttering moments would be torture.

Socialising with friends was not exactly easy for me either. I am fairly sure that the majority of people enjoy going out with their friends and even look forward to the prospect. For me though this was not the case, I would be counting down the days as the week went on.

My worst area of speech was using the telephone. To say that the telephone was something I would avoid using would have been something of an understatement – luckily my father made the majority of the calls on my behalf. Some people may say that this was not exactly helping me in the long run. This may be correct and I was very grateful at the time.

After leaving school, I started to attend interviews to try to find employment including a very bad one at a business cost cutting company. I would normally stutter more when under pressure or when meeting new people and both of these situations are prevalent in an interview situation. I would normally arrive at the interview very tired after a lack of sleep through the stress of it all and I have to say found it very difficult to convince any employer to take me on.

As you can no doubt imagine I was eager to find a way of stopping stuttering and I did eventually attain fluency after purchasing a seventy minute self-help stuttering therapy DVD from the UK. I now live happy and successful life and as a career I now I work for a DVD authoring company.

I hope other people who have a stutter can gain inspiration from my story – stuttering can be overcome and do not listen to those who say otherwise.

I once had a neighbour who was about sixty-five. She was such a negative person, very rarely smiled and seemed to moan about almost everything. Her name was Nancy.

When I first moved to this particular area, I tried to make friends with the people who lived close to me, this was fairly easy as I sold Tesco Voucher Codes as well as offering a DVD duplication service for a living which was a kind of excuse for talking to them. When I first met Nancy she kept saying how ill she felt and about how her back was playing her up. I went away from this meeting feeling quite sorry for Nancy.

About a month later I met Nancy again. I enquired as to how she was doing on this bright and sunny day. I wish I had not bothered as I then had to listen to all of her problems. She did not have one happy thing to say. Over the next few years of living by Nancy, I actually went out of my way to avoid her.

I have to admit that I also used to feel sorry for myself. I grew up with a speech impediment known as a stutter. I could never quite comprehend as to why I developed this speech impediment. It did not seem fair to me as I believed I was a really nice person.

I lived with the stuttering problem until the age of twenty-two and then began to have a change of attitude. I started to focus on the many people in the world who had it far tougher than I did; by just looking and reading about people who live in Iraq and Afghanistan certainly opened up my eyes to a new way of thinking.

If I am asked by a particular person as to how I am I will now almost always reply in a positive manner – that is even if I am feeling really bad. I try and walk around with a smile on my face and am now living life to the full. I have also managed to overcome that horrible speech impediment and to therefore learn the ways to eradicate stuttering.

People like Nancy could do with having the same change in attitude and they may find they have more visitors to their house and that some of their ailments disappear.

I found life with a stutter extremely frustrating as at times I could speak very well. I could talk to my partner without too many problems however could hardly speak a word when chatting to her family.

I was at a loss to comprehend why I could speak free from this speech impediment to person A but that I could not talk fluently to person B. I did attended various forms of stammering treatments but to no avail.

I read many books about speech imediments, achieving fluency and about how to stop stammering, about a potential stammering cure and spoke to many speech therapists. From what I read and from what I was told, I was made to believe that I was unable to live a stuttering-free life as it suggested you are unable to eradicate a stutter. This was not really the form of stammering advice that I was looking for; I wanted specialised therapy etc.

I was not exactly impressed with the negativity – I am a person who believes in the power of positive thinking.

I then was fortunate enough to watch Bruce Willis being interviewed on the television. He stated that he had had a stutter which had started when he was a young boy, however he had managed to achieve fluency when he was a late teenager. This was a huge inspiration to me and I then decided that I would attempt to overcome my own speech impediment.

I was eventually able to eradicate the stutter. It was far from easy and I was assisted in a big way by a 70 minute self-help stuttering therapy DVD that I bought from The How To Stop Stuttering Centre. I now have a much more fulfilling life and I also have a successful career selling front doors.  

Stuttering can be overcome with hard work and a lot of desire; if I can do it then so could you.