Stuttering Blogs

I have to say that I am feeling rather bemused. I have just read a stuttering blog whose author seems to be solely interested in finding out what causes a person to develop a stutter. He seems to have put a huge amount of time and effort into this but there is just one problem, it does not seemed to have helped him one bit as he still has a pronounced stutter. Surely looking for ways to overcome the stutter would be more beneficial.

What disturbed me about reading his blog was not so much about his blinkered crusade to find out the causes of stuttering but more the way he attempts to encourage people to accept their stutter. He seems to have a negative attitude to all aspects of specialised stuttering treatments and would seemingly rather big up the traditional speech therapists. Just because he has been unable to overcome a stutter does not mean that other people will not be able to~So he has failed in quest to achieve total fluency; perhaps he has not even tried - this however should not mean that he deters other people from trying to reach their goal of a stuttering free life}. It goes without saying that we are all different; there of those people, such as myself, who think in a positive manner!

I personally believe that it is important to discover the causes of stuttering but feel that stuttering treatment is far more essential. If this blogger put in as much effort into overcoming his stutter as he does to learning about the causes of stammering and stuttering then surely he would have a great chance to achieve fluency. In truth he would have to change his attitude some what as I would doubt that he would attend any form of stuttering therapy with an open mind. He would go there believing it would not work, he therefore is unlikely to have the motivation to put in the required hours of practice to enable any of the stuttering cure techniques, that he had been taught, to become a natural part of his speech.

Apart from finding the blog disturbing, I actually felt sorry for this blogger. Why? He has a stutter; he has seemingly accepted that he will have the speech impediment for the rest of his life - he has given up - I for one think that this is rather sad especially as he actually seems like an educated man, despite my brainless comment earlier.

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