The Five Day Stuttering Speech Course

The first two days of the course are used to learn all of the rules of fluent speech.

The first day is the most important day. This is the "clients" easy day as I do most of the talking, explaining in detail around half of the speech rules. I ask the client to talk about their history, including information about how their stutter started, about their family and about their interests, plus any other information they would like to disclose, i.e, where they work. The client will have at least one further speech task on this first day, which they will be asked to complete after they have heard the first set of rules.

On the second day the client becomes more involved, starting to put into practice what they have learnt from the previous day. The final speech rules are taught on this day.

The final three days are spent practicing, enabling the rules to start becoming embedded and a natural part of the clients speech.

Some of the areas included in the course are:

1. Why people stutter.

2. Telephone technique.

3. Interview technique.

4. Public speaking technique.

5. The speech rules.

6. How to become fluent using the speech rules.

7. Understanding the psychological aspects of speech.

There are numerous speech rules covering all aspects of speech, I will briefly explain what three of them cover:

A. When I was a stutterer I found it difficult to pronounce words beginning with certain letters such as b,d,g,k, and v etc. I would always be substituting words e.g, "Birmingham" to "West Midlands". These letters plus others are known as the "hard sounding" letters of the alphabet. I found the "soft sounding" letters (vowels plus the letter h) normally ok to say. Therefore I was trying to find a technique which would enable me to make hard sounds soft, I eventually found the answer and one of the speech rules covers this.

B. I hated "blocking" when I was a stammerer. One of the speech rules when applied makes it impossible for the stutterer to block.

C. For most stutterer's their speech is at its most vulnerable when they are under pressure. I therefore have a speech rule dealing with this issue.

There is nothing in the course for the client to fear or worry about. If there is an area of the course that they would rather not cover or do they simply don't do it.

Each course is unique as every stutterer is different, this is why courses are run on a one-to-one basis.

Will the stuttering course work for me?

Many people ask me this question and all I can say to them is that if you study, practice and follow the speech rules it can not fail. There are two catchphrases for the course, 'practice makes perfect' and 'to learn from the mistakes you make'.

Basically if you stutter it means you have broken one of the speech rules, you then learn from that mistake, and practice the speech rule which you have broken. Once the client has learnt the rules they automatically know which rule they have broken, therefore it is easily identifiable and the frustration of not knowing why we stutter has also gone.

I have three types of people who attend the course:

1. These 'clients' work extremely hard during and after the course and therefore fluency is quickly attained. These people listen, learn and trust what is being taught them. At the end of each session, the client is given "homework" to be completed before the next day, this will consist of about an hours work.
These clients not only complete the tasks I set, but think of extra ways to help the speech rules become natural.

I stress the importance of continued interaction with people between each session, the more people talk using the speech rules, the quicker it becomes embedded. At the start of each day, I ask the client to speak to me about what they have been doing since they left. This is their first speech task of the day, and the details they describe can tell me a lot about their character. Client type number one talk about regular contact with various people, whether it be via the telephone or in person.

2. These clients work hard during the first two or three days but then they seem to get too confident thinking its maybe too easy and their work level drops. I had a client in 1999 who after three days had considerably improved and was extremely happy with his progress. However on the fourth day he did not turn up, I was obviously curious as to where he was and it turned out that he had been out drinking heavily and couldn't get out of bed - not the attitude I want.

3. These clients are people who hope to achieve fluency via a magic pill, if only life was that simple. My attitude is you get out of life what you put in. Client type three are people who for whatever reason are not willing to put the work in, it astounds me why they turn up in the first place. They are not only very negative about the course and their chances of ever achieving fluency but also about life in general. I can only help people who want to be helped and who are open minded to new approaches, the courses I run are nothing like what you would receive via a qualified speech therapist. Thankfully these types of client are rare.

It is obvious to say that my favourite type of client is number one, if you are this type of person you will definitely succeed.

The five day speech course costs £450 or $831 US

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