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Is Stuttering a Genetic Disorder?
My name is Steve Hill; I am somebody who has successfully managed to eradicate a stutter, a stutter that had been ruining my life for the previous eighteen years. I had decided to try to find my own cure for stuttering as I had become rather disillusioned with the traditional forms of speech therapy, after eighteen years of stuttering you realise that perhaps the therapy that you have been trying is not actually working!
In the end it took me nearly a year to achieve fluency and a lot of determination. I was very fortunate in that I had a very supportive family and circle of friends who helped to keep me in a positive mood. These people were also more than willing to help with the practice side of things.
As a career I now help other people to achieve fluency by running speech courses from Birmingham in England. I also offer an e-book and a DVD which are a form of stuttering self-help. I am quite fortunate as a good friend of mine is in the DVD replication business.
I am often asked whether stuttering is a genetic disorder and whether it is passed down from one generation to the next. People often think that because one of their parents had a stutter that this is the reason why they developed a stutter.
Whether genes play a part is difficult to confirm as a large number of people who have a stutter do not have any family members who have also had this form of speech impediment.
For me personally I was actually more interested in finding a solution than a cause.
I believe that in the future there will be a lot more studying of the potential link between stuttering and genes.
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