Stammering/stuttering is a symptom of a condition in which the brain’s neural circuits for speech have not been wired normally. On 11th February, 2010, researchers announced that three genes have been identified as a source of stammering/stuttering. If you would like to support the work of the British Stammering Association, a charity, please go to www.stammering.org To support the Stuttering Foundation of America, please go to www.stutteringhelp.org To support other stammering associations, please go to the International Stuttering Association site at www.stutterisa.org where there is list of national associations.
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Add your commentLPchica086, I wish you had found someone who stammers a lot earlier then, maybe, you would not have felt so alone with all the difficulties it brings. There are 60 million people in the world who stammer and yet we are virtually inaudible and invisible. So unless we stand up and speak out, uncomforable though that may be, nothing will change.
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For the most part, mine is fairly moderate..I have good days and bad days, but I can hide it for the most part by just switching words..
However, I had a job interview today..and it was awful. Not necessarily the interview itself, but I just couldn’t get my words out. :-/
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I’m really glad that I found your channel. It’s refreshing to find someone else (even if it’s online) who also has a problem with stuttering. I’ve had it myself for my whole life, and haven’t come across anyone else with the problem.
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You’re in the States, Dami, so best to contact the Stuttering Foundation of America and they will recommend a qualified speech pathologist in your area. That’s important because, few pathologists specialise in stuttering. There is no universal ‘cure’ so you will need to control your expectations before going into any kind of therapy. Very few adults recover completely but most learn how to control their speech better and to be less sensitive about their stuttering. Good luck.
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speakingout2- do you know of any therapies/techniques that seem to have some success. Its difficult to know,especially when money is involved, which one(s) to go with
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I got a time ordered tommorrow actually, i’m just looking through several videos to see what to expect.
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Hi Brooney. The root cause of stammering is neurological, so you have a lot of things going on in your head. Have you seen a speech therapist who specialises in stammering?
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I got ADD (Brain function is different) and stammer, so the normal method’s to help are not as effective that it would be for a normal person.
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The root cause is neurological – and there may well be some hereditary influence in that. But how the stammer develops is dependent upon a whole mixture of influences: family, personality, schooling and so on. It is these influences with can turn stammering from being a dysfluency into a syndrome which can affect your whole life.
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my speech therapist says that its a mixture of everything, family, personality, medical condition
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to be honest i don’t think any of the hi profile celebs have lost there stammers i just think they no how to control it well! i saw bruce willis avoid words in interviews our he comes on as his ‘alter ego’ on lettermen if you stammer you will no what i mean by that!! winston Churchill had to practise speeches for hours be for doing it live.
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Hi, cottonwhiskersuk; good to hear from you again. I don’t think we should worry too much about a handful of high profile ex-stammerers. There really are very few of them and, unfortunately, the media tends to make out that they overcame their stammers because they have such strong characters. This is simply not true and, worse, it helps perpetuate the myth that stammerers are shy and weak. But there hundreds of stammerers who are not celebs,almost entirely because they still stammer!
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Yes, high profile stammerers seem thin on the ground. But what about high profile EX-stammerers? From Marilyn Monroe to Bruce Willis, Winston Churchill to Billie Whitelaw, history is sprinkled with these apparent success stories. We need such people to open up and share the hows and the whys of their eventual success. They owe it to their fellow stammerers still languishing in misery.
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“Frankly,you’ve no-less seized my immense respect from the likes of me,whereas,then again,I’m too a “stutter-laden” individual!”
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You are too kind, Rizeka. I have always stammered and I will very probably continue to stammer until the end of my days! Some times my speech is bad, some times it is not so bad. And I have come to accept all this. So I am happy to speak, and to stammer, because I think that what I am saying is far more important than the way I say it.
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I also have a stammer and I feel like it’s slowly killing me. I just wanted to let you that I admire your courage to come on Youtube and stand up for the stuttering community. You’re a great man and I wish you all the best in the world.
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Thanks for looking at it, AI, and thanks for making such a nice comment. We are in the foothills of the mountain called Stammering Awareness! Best wishes to everyone in Austria. I was once part of a team responsible for marketing your wines in the UK!
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I don’t stutter but I also think that your video is great and that you are doing wonderful work by encouraging stammering people. Keep it up and good luck!
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Thanks, Lori. I don’t speak that well, but I hope I communicate OK. You tell those PWS and children to put up videos of their own. They have nothing to be ashamed of. If you have a bad leg, you may well stumble when you run. If you have a stammer, you may well stumble when you speak. Good luck and thanks again.
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fabulous. This is great to watch for PWS and children. Very educational. You are a wonderful speaker.
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I alsoo stutter and what you said is incouraging.
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I know what you mean, ranmore30. In fact, after years of being able to handle just about everything in life, except my stammer, I was quite relieved to find out it was neurogical!
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i’ve got s stammer and talking slowly helps a lot but i swear its neurological becus no matter how i take breaths, think about speech and take it slow, i still stammer.
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you speak great! i stutter also. you make lots of great points
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Thanks for that, CWUK. It worked OK here, but I’ve tried it again since and it wasn’t so good. Variability is a big thing in stammering. I agree with you about the distraction thing. Apparently this works because our brains use slightly different neural pathways to do accents, etc, but the effect doesn’t last because the brain realises that it’s being tricked, and returns to using the default – and faulty – pathways. Like a river, after the Spring floods, returning to its old course…
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