Speech therapy, stuttering?
I’m 15 and I stutter. I’ve finally decided to tell my mom that I want the doctor to refer us to a speech pathologist. I am living with too much fear every day when I go to school, and embarrassment when I do stutter. What should I expect from speech therapy when I go this summer? Do they give you drills?
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Just try staying calm & speaking slowly & you can overcome this. The anxiety is probably making you studder more. Take care!
Good luck with that.
Speech theropy takes a LOT of time.
i used to stutter when i talked…also i couldnt prounounce anything correctly..soo….. my aunt who is a speech therapist helped me
I couldn’t pronounce a lot of r words when I was younger so the therapist taught me tricks on how to say them. You’ll probably be told tricks to help, and yes “drills”
By the way don’t worry about what people say or think. Its not a bid deal, but its a good idea to get help cause you will gain more confidence.
I Think Its Adorable, my Friend Been Stutters And Hes In 11 Grade and he gets more girls becouse of it, it just the way you are you shouldnt try and change im 14 and i have dislexia in my right hand and my handwritting sux i use to hate it so i stoped writting, and now i relized my handwritting is sexi as hell..(not rele) it still sux but good luck, love Taylor
speech therapy is hell they make you say complex words and yell at you when you studder or say the word wrong. they make your parents work with you all the time constantly. i took soeech therapy and it didnt help me any. i went to then to help me not studder as much. but i just studder more now and i talk to fast.
Talk slow and stay confident. Its just the bullies in life that will pick on you. Somebody that is loving and caring will understand.
They might give you drills and such…it will depend on how much you stutter, what words and sounds you stutter on, that kind of thing. Some of the tasks or drills might seem a little silly at first, just remember it is all to try and help you.
The best tip I can give you, from friends who have stuttered or had some other kind of speech impediment is to relax and speak slowly. That has been a trick that has worked well for one of my friends who used to stutter ALOT.
Also keep in mind that many, many people stutter. James Earl Jones being one of them. Imagine that, the voice of Darth Vader used to stutter!
Article about James Earl Jones: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,624807,00.html
This page http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=146 has the information you want to know. Make sure that you are going to a therapist who has been trained to work with stutterers. This page http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=120 tells how to choose a therapist.
You can also do self therapy, which is what my family did, by using the Stuttering Foundation’s book “Self Therapy for the Stutterer.” It is used by some therapists in their sessions and will give you an idea of what they do.