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Living with Stuttering (Triumph Series)

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I've recently been reading some books on stuttering and this is one that I came across. This book is different from most of the stuttering books that I have found. What is different about this book is that it is not a technical book about the details and mechanics of stuttering, nor is it a book that will necessarily help with treatment. This book opens with 25 stories of stutterers. Kenneth St. Louis made a decision to only tell the stories of people who have had a measure of success and acceptance in how they deal with stuttering. Many of the stories felt familiar to me because I had gone through similar things in my life or their thoughts were those that I have had in the past. What is nice about these stories are that they are from ordinary people (Bruce Willis and James Earl Jones are not included in this collection) who have to deal with stuttering in their daily lives and they let us know how they have dealt with it. Some have not had any treatment and they just accept the fact that they stutter and do not let it bother them or hold them back. Others have had to work at their stuttering. The end point these stories are trying to drive home is that while you may never be completely free from stuttering, it is possible to have success in treating stuttering.

The second portion of the book (less than half) deals with stuttering itself. It reveals what stuttering is (and what it is not). It goes through some of the more common treatments, and tells what the benefits of some of the treatments can be. This is not a book that will help you treat yourself, but it can point you in the right direction if you are looking for a place to start. There are also references in the back of the book that someone may find helpful.

This is an easy book to read, and if a person is looking for a book on stuttering, this may be a good one to look at as it includes personal testimonies in addition to the details of stuttering. It is a simple book, but it should be a good one to start with on the topic of stuttering.

If you stutter or want someone to utterly undestand some of the hardships of stuttering, this book will do. There are many cases with stuttering with "bad" or "good" endings. This book only tells the good endings. It entails hope to stutters that we DO have a chance in making it successfully in life and that we don't carry a long term curse of stuttering because we can do it simply by being confidence and view our rare trait as an extention of ourselves instead of a disability. Word.

Compiled by Kenneth O. St. Louis, Living With Stuttering: Stories, Basics, Resources And Hope is comprised of twenty-five true stories of people who live with stuttering and enhanced with a wealth of thematically appropriate resources. Information about the basics of stuttering, what is known about its causes and treatments, and a great deal more fill the pages of this excellent and enthusiastically recommended resource for people who stutter, as well as those who work or live with stutterers.