Stammering for a public speech

My name is vishal..I am a stammer from past 10 years. I tried a lot but nothing get me cured.

Thanks,
Vishal

Hi ,
I am stammering since child hood. I dont get nervous when i talk to strangers or conduct a session or meeting. I am currently working in a leading software organisation in India. My problem is, sometimes words just dont come out even when i am with my friends, close ones or conducting a session. This is more than embarrasing and does no good to my confidence. I have to settle for substitute words, thus making a mockery of myself.

I'll be grateful to you if you could help me overcome this problem.
Thanks,
Kunal.

Would all posters please be very careful about people leaving messages for a miracle cure for stammering. If there is such a cure then they should provide details of how the system works, so that the whole audience can benefit.

Hello! Doctor
My name is Abhilasha, i'm from hyd.I have stammering problem from the age of 6,untill my college i was never bothered, when i went to tamilnadu in order to pursue my BE, i was so scared to talk with pepole, i don't stammer much, but still was very shyful to talk in public, i even missed 2 important seminars which effected my marks as well, later when i went to UK to pursue my MS , i became so confident and started to talk and make friends, i even got job as a Revenue Officer which needed lot of interaction with pepole, i managed well, but recently i returned back to hyd after 5 yrs and now again my stammering is bothering me, if i get excited or in presence of someone i know very well, i stammer
really i don't know what to do, as i have an interview next week with a very big MNC company and i want to get that job.
Please please help me, please add your tips onto the board
Thanx for your time to read this
Abhilasha

There is a very interesting article on the British Stammering Association web site called "Is there a cure for stammering"
http://www.stammering.org/cure.html

Here is an article on the BBC web site that may prove an interesting link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1452251.stm

And here is one from the British Stammering Association
http://www.stammering.org/hypnosis2002.html

I hope that this helps

I have just deleted another post claiming to offer miracle cures to stammering in return for a fee.

If there are any stammering cures then details should be posted onto the forum.

Please could you let me know techniques to cure stamering.
Its would be a big help for me.

Thanks and awaiting in eager.

regards

KArthik.R

After a long research , what i'm saying is :

Stammering is a state of excitement which makes your speech organs tense
which due to a FALSE anticipation that you 'll stammer.

Keep in mind that anticipation is totally false. No body stammers. If he knows
that he has not a problem but just a false anticipation,

The techniques are.
(1) Pranayam
(2) Sudarshan kriya by art of living.
(3) THE MOST IMPORTANT: TEll your self again and again that you have no problem. Keep on telling .. this will gradually go deep into your sub conscious mind and then you'll begin to be fluent.
(4) Shavasan

These techniques are much helpful.

Hi All,

There is nothing to do with your sub-consious mind and stammering ...
Stammering is caused but various reasons.. wrong way of learning speech in childhood (like imitating some charecter who stammers) , by frigtnening etc ..

Stammering can be completely cured for children at the early age but teaching them to speak the corect way.. and for adults it can be controlled .. by takingng up a proper speech therapy ..

I'm in 25yrs old and i was suffering from stammerng for the past 15 yrs, it started becoz my friends scared me with grasshoppers and cockroaches when i was 5 yrs... Now i'm taking up speech therapy and i can feel that my stammering has reduced a lot .... even if my sub-consious mind tell me i'm going to stammer a particular word.. i can speak that word without stammering ....

Pls you also visit a good speech therapist for your stammering.. but there is lot of hard work needed from your side also ..a speech therapist can show u only the way .. but u've to walk thru it ..

Look at it this way you will still be living at the end of the speech, and you uknow you have to go through with it. so just knock it out the way. every one gets nervous just dont let that control you.

Hello
I am also stammering since childhood but now i am feeling the heat of that disorder .During working ,i can not interpret the my thoughts & logic , what actually I really want to say ?So sometime also happens that i fear to make any statament in public .sometime your collegeus also trying to make fun of your disorder.
I hope you people will underastand my problem & let me know the ultimate good solution toatleast control my stammering,

yours faithfully


D.S.Jaiswal

I feel your pain with public speaking. Being a stammerer myself i feel the extra pressure of the situation unhelpful in trying to speak fluently. My advice would be to take it slowly and prepare exactly what you are going to say in advance. Take deep breaths before every scentence and maintain a steady flow of air (dont just let it all out at once). Works a treat for me!

I have been a stutterer since age 6.
I guess it is to do with inheritance becoz my father stutters on phone smtimes and his couple of brothers stutter a bit too. even my mom's brother stutters.
but then my mom says i aquired stuttering disorder wen i was six, and i had fever at that time and was acting wierd. the fever was smthing to do with a fear of a snake i had seen at that time.
i went to a therapist wen i was 13, and he told me to practise reading newspapers by streching the first phonetic of each word for one second i guess.
for example, "I aaaam a veeeeeergo(virgo) aaaaaand(and) aaaaaaastrology eeeeeees(is) fuaaaaaaan(fun)". I used to practise for almost half an hour a day. Alas! it showed very little effect on the disorder.
After that i changed my school(coz the previous school was really lame :P ) and the environment in the new school was really cool and i almost lost stuttering except during few occasions where i had to read out poems in telugu to my sir.(may be because of stress and fear). i also had won award for teaching to my juniors, mathematics on the teachers day and there was no stuttering even infront of a big audience. everything went fine for 2-3 years.

now i am in my final year of graduation and hav faced a lot problems during seminars and presentations or while asking doubts to the professors. i am pretty normal during normal conversations with friends but the problem arises when i try to explain a concept or a news or a joke to people who are unaware of the concept/news.
one more thing i obsevered in my stuttering is that i stutter infront of people whom i think are a bit superior to me. not exactly superior but ppl who are not so dumb to analysie things i.e intelligent enough. with strangers( except elders/higher officials) i am pretty fluent.
very recently my professor too advised me to get rid of it since its going to be a big hurdle in my future professional life where probably i have to present papers in conferences and things like that. it seems that, as said by my professors, even in my stuttering i am pretty good at explaining concepts during presentations. (dont know if they said this just to boost my morale). the thing is there's no blockage of thinking rationally/logically during my stuttering.

hope the above things adds to the database of properties of stuttering.
i would also welcome thankfully, suggestions in getting rid of this problem from people who are in practice.
i hope its not a problem replying to such an old thread.

i stay in mumbai

thnks.

Yes balaji I also have stammering problem since childhood however when i turned 17 i had almost overcome it by 98%. I could talk with strangers smoothly, complete a profitable deal, forgot that I had been stammering since my childhood and suddenly one day my sister gave me a complement in front of everybody-from the very next day i started to stammer[] Still I am trying my best to recover and eliminate stammering. You know I found that whenever a stammering person thinks that he will stammer/he should not stammer on a particular word, he will desperately stammer. I never visited a speech therapist but learned a good effective technique, whenever we feel we will stammer on particular word, relax-don't lose ur rythm, fill ur mouth with enough air and now try to say. I hope this may help you.

Regular practice vocal and breathing makes lot of difference.
I had attended stammering cure course in India. It helped me a lot.

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I'm not sure that there is an instant fix to this, but the one consistent advice to this is to write down what you want to say and to rehearse it. This way if you do freeze, you will have your written notes that you can read from them.

If you can use presentation slides make them visual so that your audiince can follow your presentation.

One person I once saw present had pictures with a few captions.. When he froze he just simply pointed at the slides and gestured. The audience read the slides and he got a standing ovation at the end.

Please remember that the audience wants you to succeed.