Stuttering And Stammering Speech Impediment

Stammering or as it is sometimes known as stuttering is a form
of speech impediment.

My name is Stephen Hill and I had a stammer for eighteen years.
I went to various types of speech therapy which even though was
of some use, never really offered me any hope of a "cure".

At the age of twenty two, after a lot of hard work I managed to
overcome the stammer and I now help other people to achieve
fluency.

These are the types of situation that I found that I was most
likely to stammer:

Ordering food and drink at a bar Phone calls Introducing people
Meeting new people Talking when under pressure Talking when
tired or stressed

On my first day at senior school, all of the first year pupils
were shown to their form room, including myself. The teacher,
who was to be our form teacher, introduced himself and welcomed
us to the school.

He then said "OK class, I have introduced myself. I don't know
any of you in here and most of you won't know each other. So
what I would like you first of all to do, is to stand up and
tell me your name and which junior school you used to attend."

He asked somebody on the front row to start, but because I was
hiding at the back of the room, I would end up being one of the
last people to speak. This was not a good thing as it meant I
had a lot of time to worry about it. When my time arrived to
speak, I could not even get one word out, it was most
humiliating.

This is one of many bad days I had during the time when
stammering was ruining my life.