HOW TO COPE AND OVERCOME WITH STUTTERING

HOW TO COPE AND OVERCOME STUTTERING
Who would believe that one of the greatest orator in history, Sir Winston Churchill was a stutterer. He was able to overcome the problem and went to be one of the greatest orator history has ever seen. If he can do it, I believe every stutterer can do it.
Research has shown that 1 in 100 people stutter. This make up about 60 million people in the world. Stuttering has numerous causes but stress and hereditary has been attributed more often. Stuttering can be frustrating for the individual who suffers from it. This leads to anger and other psychological problems like fear of speaking. However 80% of children who stutter recover from it spontaneously. The remaining 20% will therefore learn to cope with it.
With the emergence of various speech therapy programs, coping with stuttering is no longer an uphill task. Speech therapists usually recommends anti-stuttering devices that delay auditory feedback, medication to reduce speech related anxiety, relaxing of the tongue, lips and jaws or breathing from the diaphragm. Also prolong pronunciation of certain vowels and consonants may be encouraged. The technique recommended depends on the severity and uniqueness of the case.
However, perfect fluency is not guarantee in all cases of stuttering. In most cases, therapy only improves the rate of fluency. A relaxed and tension free environment often do a lot of good to a stutterer. The family and friends of the stutterer+ can assist in providing the right conditions for coping with stuttering. They should not criticize, interrupt and correct him or her during speaking. They should be more interested in what the has stutterer has to say rather than how he or she says it. Also a kind acknowledgement of the problem put the stutterer at ease. Above all, acceptance of the stutterer for he or she is will go a long way in helping him or her.
Providing the right environment combine with speech therapy will help in improving the fluency of the stutterer. The patient might be lucky to develop perfect fluency. With perfect fluency who knows, he or she might be the next Winston Churchill, Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln.