Stammering and Stuttering

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As I have a stammer, this is something I can write about with ease. Although it may be a subject not directly to do with health and wellbeing, it is written through personal experience and I hope touches on some of the fears which we have.

I'd like to tell you of one thing I tend to do and that is to think of a pendulum.
You talk and maybe have a hand behind your back and swing a finger to a rythm, then try and talk to that rythm. Perhaps the speech may sound a little poetic, but it helps.

Also I find that being physically expressive helps; use your hands to 'throw' a word out, or simply move around a little. In other words use a bit of acting ability - I've even been known to speak in a false accent on the phone to someone I don't know.

There are many little things which can help, but here are a few useful places....

http://www.stammering.org/teensleaflet.html

http://www.channel4.com/health/....../stammer.php

http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/26739525/ (Michael Palins Centre for children with stammers)

Finally, I would re-iterate that I've got through having one, but if I'm totally honest, I would rather not on many a occasion. Thereagain, my life has evolved as is and I'm pretty happy about my life in general!

IF YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE OR WOULD LIKE TO ADD A LINK TO THIS PAGE, PLEASE EMAIL THEM TO.......... richardcannon@downthelane.net

"The stutterer feels at most times apart and different from others in society. He feels that although others also have difficulties in life, they can cope with them and live much easily with their problems. He feels more permanently crippled than others because of the fact that he cannot hide or conceal this speech difficulty, and therefore, he is the constant target of their embarrassment, ridicule and disapproval" (Barbara)

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“No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.”

Jeremy Taylor quotes

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