All about Steve Hill

I was born in Birmingham on the 13th September 1973. It was at the age of four that I developed a stutter.

This speech impediment had a major affect on my life for the next eighteen years and was something I was determined to overcome.
 
My parents tried to help me as much as they could. At the outset they booked me into see the local speech therapist.

I continued to attend various forms of traditional speech therapy until I was eighteen years of age. Yes fourteen years of speech therapy and I was still stuttering; to be truthful it was actually becoming even more severe.
 
The stutter had a massive impact on virtually every decision I ever made. I became quite a shy and reserved person and would prefer to spend time alone rather than socialising with other people.

Some people might presume that this would be quite a lonely existence, I however was very happy and content on my own, after all I did not have any form of speech impediment when talking to myself.
 
As you will no doubt read on some of the other pages on this website, I managed to eventually achieve fluency when I was aged twenty-two.

I had always imagined and dreamt about what life would be like as a fluent person, not to have to fear stuttering, day in day out. 

Fluency is actually even better than words can describe. I feel like I have won the lottery each week for the last five years. Now the world can finally get to know the real Stephen Hill.
 
As a career I now help other people who have a stuttering problem to achieve fluency.

I run one-to-one speech therapy courses and have produced a number of self-help products for people who are unable to attend a course. These include a seventy minute DVD, an e-book and an audio book.
 
In my personal life I am a proud parent of a seven year old boy and also a step-father to a fourteen year old girl. I enjoy socialising with my friends and family.
 
I also like to travel whenever I have the time and enjoy playing sports such as snooker, cricket and football.