Dear Ralph: How do I stop the stutter

Good day Raphael
My name is IBK, I am an avid reader of your blog and I must confess that it has blessed me a great deal. All my life I have know myself to always stutter, I have read a lot about it seeking for solutions all to no avail. I found it pretty difficult in school during seminars and presentations, in short I have been disgraced by stuttering that I have lost count. Please is there remedy or is there anyway you can help me. Thanks so much. God bless.

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Good day IBK
            Well what they say is that the problem is the fear of stuttering and not the stutter itself. That lack of confidence is what affects you psychologically to start with. Now yes some people are born to be stutterers but it can be controlled. You need to learn how so let me give you a couple of tips.
        Start off by taking your words little by little, speak slowly and count your words, it might sound strange at first but by the time you get used to it you will flow. I have actually seen an uncle get over he's by using this method. Try reading books,sign boards or anything you see at all out aloud it will work as a speech therapy and will help you practice. You need to practice the speech and get used to doing it. Build up confidence and forget about how you will sound or what people might say and concentrate on getting better. Take deep breaths seriously, don't underestimate that, your fear makes you to neglect breathing and it doesn't help, so ease off the tension by taking deep breaths.
    I would recommend that you record yourself when you start out this practices and then after a couple of weeks record yourself again, then play the recordings after some time and compare your progress it will help you to track your improvement. There are many more things to do but I don't want to say to much and get you confused on which to do, so try out these ones first then get back to me if they aren't working. We would keep working on it till you get over it. It isn't a hopeless course as I know people who their conditions where really bad and they succeeded in getting over it. So just take it easy and be patient because it will take some time to correct but you will definitely be able to do it. Don't worry my friend you will be fine.
 
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