I Have a Voice: How to Stop Stuttering

Stuttering has been in the shadows of public awareness for years. Sure, no one dies from stuttering, and it is not pervasive--only one percent of people stutter Yet it is a malady that has not received a great deal of attention. But stuttering is no longer in the shadows. In 2011, The King's Speech, a British historical drama won an Academy Award, and made stuttering part of the public conversation. Moviegoers learned of the embarrassing pain that most People Who Stutter (PWS) suffer. The movie is about the young man who became the King of England just prior to the Second World War It reveals the painful experiences that stuttering created for him. But, even more than that, the speech trainer in the movie brings into focus this shocking fact: Stuttering is not about speech! It is about the 'thinking&' that is mostly unconscious and in 'the back of the mind of the PWS.' In this ground-breaking volume, the author details a completely new approach to treating this debilitating condition. It explains both the structure of stuttering and blocking and provides the cognitive tools for gaining more fluency From identifying the origins of stuttering, through teaching how to think differently in working with stress, the author provides a unique approach to achieving more fluency. Originally published in hardcover under the title Mastering Blocking and Stuttering (ISBN 9781904424406).