When A Child Starts To Develop A Stutter, It Comes As A Shock To Everyone Involved. It Can Be A Very Stressful Time For Both The Parents And For The Child.I Myself Developed A Stutter At The Age Of Four Or Five. My Mother Had Left Work To Look After Me When I Was Born And I Started To Talk As Normal. Everything Was Fine Until I Started School. My Mother - Who Now Had More Time On Her Hands, Decided To Re-start Work And I Would Now Be Going To A Friend Of The Families After School. This Friend Was Called Jean And She Had A Son My Age Called Graham. On The First Day I Spent At Her House Everything Was Going Well Until Jean Called Us In For Our Evening Meal. Meal Times At My Own House Were A Very Relaxed Affair, We Were Able To Eat Our Food Wherever We Wanted To In The House.At Jean's House They Ate In A Dining Room Around A Dining Table. There Were A Lot Of People Around The Table Who I Did Not Know Very Well And Eating In Front Of Them All, Made Me Feel Quite Uncomfortable. During The Meal People Were Asking Me Various Questions And For Whatever Reason, I Found It Difficult To Answer And Started To Stutter. This Was The First Day Of My Life As A Person Who Has A Stutter.My Parents A Few Months Later Took Me To Speech Therapy, The Speech Therapist Advised Them That Most Children Will Grow Out Of Their Stutter. I Continued Unfortunately To Stutter Until I Was Twenty Two. At This Stage I Decided I Had Had Enough And That It Was Time To Overcome The Stutter.I Decided To Try And Find My Own Stuttering Solution. I Went About This By Reading Books About Self Confidence As I Certainly Had A Low Self Esteem. I Also Studied People Who I Believed Were Very Good Talkers And Tried To Work Out How The Spoke Differently Than Me, For Example The Way They Breathed.After Nearly A Year I Was Proud To Be Able To Class Myself As Fluent And As A Career I Now Help Other People To Achieve Fluency.
