Stop Stuttering On Your Own Without Expensive Therapy

What Is Stuttering?

Stuttering is a speech disorder where the individual's natural flow of speech is disrupted by frequent repetitions or prolongations of certain sounds, syllables and words. Sometimes, this makes it impossible to even start a word.

Aside from difficulty in speaking, this is usually accompanied by rapid eye blinks, tremors of the lips or jaw and in the upper body. Stress makes the situation even worse when he or she has to speak to a large crowd or talk on the phone. However, this changes when one is singing or speaking alone.

This disorder is also known as stammering. It should be pointed out that this is different from two other speech disorders namely cluttering and spasmodic dysphonia.

Studies show that there are 3 million Americans that stutter. This starts at the age of 2 to 6 since this is the time that they are still developing language. This ratio between boys and girls is 3 to 1. The good news is that many children outgrow this and only a small percentage of those who suffer are adults.

To prove a point, some of the best speakers in the world that had stuttering in their early childhood include Bruce Willis, Carly Simon, James Earl Jones and Mel Tillis. You may not believe it but these people overcame this challenge.

But what causes people to stutter? There are many forms and some scientists believe that this is genetic because it is developmental. Others argue that this is neurogenic which means that signal problems between the brain and the nerves causes this to happen. As a result, the brain is not able to coordinate properly the different components of speech. This can also happen if the person suffered from a stroke or other form of brain injury.

Stuttering may also originate in the mind or what is known as psychogenic but this only accounts for a small number of sufferers.

What They Don't Want You To Know

Stuttering is largely behavioral based, and is *triggered* by events, stress, and anxiety the stutterer may encounter.

Learn to control the triggers ===> Learn to stop stuttering

Many speech language pathologist don't want you to know that by simply controlling the elements that cause you to stutter, you can end your stuttering yourself.

It really is as easy as that...let me say it again:

Learn to control the triggers - learn to control your stuttering!