Adult Testimonials for Stammering Speech Therapy Cure Treatment

I'm Christopher Palmer and I recently did something that changed my life forever. As from October 12th 2007, I became stammer-free since that day like I said, changed my life forever.

I graduated from The Fluency Centre with Andrew Bell, after having a stammer for 23 years in which I led quite a frustrating life, but I'm finally stammer-free at last!! I knew it was something that I had to do before I started my career in teaching.

I attended the one-to-one Fluency Coaching with Andrew Bell in October 2007 and his theory in regard to overcoming stammering does work, however it takes an amount of effort, dedication and motivation. I have no criticism about his course whatsoever as I have NEVER stammered since I graduated from his programme. Andrew Bell is one in a million and I would have no reservations if anyone is considering booking a place on his course.

Not only I've done this life-changing challenge, but I've also travelled, partied and graduated from John Moores University with a 2:2 in Chinese with French. I lived in China for over a year studying Chinese and travelled to other parts of Asia. I am now a school teacher at Haberdashers Aske's Hatcham College in South London and I am teaching Mandarin and I officially started in August 2008.

It’s seems a long time ago now but it certainly was the beginning of my new life!

I was 19 when I attended your course and now at the age of 29 I am living my life to its fullest!

If anyone out there who has a stammer is thinking twice about going on the course, then I strongly urge you to put your doubts to one side and book your place on the course. It will be the greatest investment in your wellbeing that you will ever make.

When I attended the course I was an awkward shy teenager who dreaded getting out of bed every morning and stepping into the world, with it’s words full of M’s, B’s, D’s or S’s, every word seemed to give me problems. These problems mounted up and you eventually just learn to keep quiet. Not anymore!!

Since attending the course, my confidence knows no bounds. I have emigrated to live in Australia and I work in an industry were talking is very much a part of my every day job. IT Consultancy.

I sometimes have to give seminars or run tours of customer sites, and I do all of this fluently.
I often get asked in interviews what my greatest personal achievement is, and they are stunned when I tell them it was overcoming a stammer. They look at my resume and what I have achieved in life and they don’t believe I was ever anything but fluent!

If it was not for Mr Bell's course, I would still be the shy awkward teenager stuck in the body of a 30 year old!

I guarantee that the last day of the course will be the first day of the rest of your life.

Sorry for the delayed response...my wife and I were on holiday for a couple of weeks, and I am finally getting to all my past e-mails now. Below is my testimonial. All best to you and your family!

I was only 16 when I took Mr Bell's Stammering Cured course in 1988. I was not the first foreigner (whose mother tongue was not English), but I was certainly the first from what was then called Yugoslavia. I am happy to say that after my successful visit to Kirkcaldy, a couple more of my countrymen followed suite with similar success.

Stammering Cured was a course that really changed my life. I just could not imagine a life without that impediment, and now, I cannot imagine my life without this wonderful knowledge that I gained with Mr Bell. The course was also one of my most memorable life experiences - it taught me to rely on myself for my own betterment. It is a wonderfully designed course in that sense; Mr. Bell provided me with all the tools, and it was up to me to use them.

The course gave me renewed self-confidence, and I credit it as a foundation of my successes since the visit to Scotland. I successfully enrolled at a top university in the US several years afterwards, I was a successful businessman for eight years before I went on to earn my MBA at a top US business school, and all that began with one of my first life learnings with Mr Bell - any obstacle can be overcome if you decide to confront it.

I am happy to learn that the course has continued with impressive stamina.

Mr Bell has helped shape the lives of so many people in the last several decades, and he deserves the accolades and recognition of statesman.

I have lived with my stammer for as long as I can remember. It has waxed and waned over the years but has remained a constant presence, always there lurking in the background. I had allowed it to dominate my life, without really thinking about it. I would avoid situations where there was a risk of my stammer being found out. This limited my career ambitions and curtailed my social life.

I avoided stammering but at the cost of living a more fulfilling life. The problem with my voice came to a head when I was persuaded to coach a hockey team. I convinced myself that I could do it by writing everything down on paper beforehand. On my first night, the friend who had persuaded me to do the coaching said he would help me out, but I completely froze when confronted with the group and he ended up doing it himself. I felt foolish and ashamed of myself.

It was then that I decided to do something about my problem. I decided to trawl the internet and came across Mr Bell’s website. The claims for a cure to stammering were bold and uncompromising, which I found intriguing, so I decided to take a risk and sign up for the next available course, which was March 2003.

I can honestly say that the course was time and money well spent. I have lost my fear and broken old habits, by making calls to people whom I’d never considered speaking to on the phone prior to the course. I feel much more confident and assertive within myself, simply from being able to talk fluently. I have found my voice and actually take pleasure in using it fluently, instead of devising ever more ingenious ways to hide my stammer.

I thought of you and your course today and struggled to think of the date I attended; Summer 1989!! This sounds like such a long time ago but the impact that the success of the course has had on my life is immeasurable and I just had the urge to contact you again and thank you personally for the phenomenal work that you do.

I now have a Ph.D. in Physiology and in acquiring that as well as in the line of my work, I make oral presentations all the time. I have presented to large audiences at international conferences in a manner that was smooth, polished and word-perfect. I am a research scientist working on numerous therapeutic areas such as cancer and inflammation.

I have lived in San Diego, CA for almost 9 years now and have found my confidence to increase as a function of continued speech success - I have remained exactly the same person, just one who can now stand up for himself, order in shops and be much more interactive.

I wanted to send this long overdue letter to describe to you if you are thinking of coming on Mr Bell's SCC course and to thank Mr Bell for helping to change my life. Like you maybe, I was a bit sceptical and apprehensive at first, I had tried so many things before which did not work for me. Thank God I did decide to go on the course back in 1986. It completely changed my life, back then I could hardly say my own name, having suffered from a severe stutter since I was four years of age. I was in my 30's when I made the decision to travel from my home then in Manchester, England to Kirkcaldy, Scotland.

In those days I was a sad reflection of the person I am today. I don't have to explain to you what having a stutter does to us, how it effects so many areas of our life, it is of course different for all of us, but I think the pain and frustration is the same. For me it was suffering terribly low self esteem, tremendous frustration at not being able to say the things I wanted to say, accomplishing the things I wanted to do, and that fear of showing myself up when I spoke and people laughing and ridiculing me.

Mr Bell is an amazing person, so caring and dedicated to what he does, he is always there for you, and I can attest to that first hand. I really do not know where I would be today if it were not for attending Mr Bell's course back in 1986. After the course I emigrated to Toronto, Canada, went in to the world of sales, something I would never have thought possible before the SCC course. I became very successful as a sales professional and later as national sales trainer and manager speaking of course all the time with no more fear, actually enjoying speaking on the telephone and to groups, and meeting people face to face.

A few years ago I decided to leave my successful job in the corporate world and follow my dream to become a professional speaker. Today I travel internationally speaking to corporate and association clients doing keynote presentations and seminars, and workshop programs, for audiences of sometimes up to 5,000 people, with no trepidation or fear. This is all thanks to me taking that first step in 1986 of going on Mr Bell's course. You have to work hard and want to achieve success, there is no free lunch, but if you really want to do something about your stuttering no matter how mild or severe your impediment is, and you are prepared to listen to everything Mr Bell tells you to do, you will succeed.

I would strongly suggest you go on Mr Bell's course, it will change your life, it certainly did mine.

Thank you Mr Bell for everything you have done for me. "You gave me hope where before there was none" and you helped me find my true voice and vocation in life after living 30 years of hell.

With Kind Regards - Charles M. Marcus

Professional Speaker The Empowerment International Group Toronto, Canada

The time I spent on the course was arguably the most enjoyable five days of my life, each day filled with an intensity of hard work, learning and self-discovery which is almost impossible to appreciate unless you have participated. Like most of my fellow course attendees, I had stammered since early childhood and been through the mill of well meaning speech therapists who knew lots of theory but had never experienced on a day to day basis what it is like to go through life with a stammer. Unlike them, Mr Bell did once have a stammer which he successfully overcame.

It is not an understatement to say that Mr Bell’s course has completely changed my life since I attended last February, giving me the confidence and courage to leave a job I had been doing for 25 years and to begin to reappraise what I want to do with the rest of my life. I am not sure what exactly that is yet, but whatever it turns out to be I know that I will be able to cope with whatever life decides to throw at me.

I would unreservedly encourage anyone who suffers from a stammer to attend one of Mr Bell’s unique courses.

Let me tell you first what magnificent results I've achieved with my speech and character on my return to India. I'm absolutely fluent with my speech and along with the new born character that I've imbibed from the course I'm in full command of my life and in absolute charge and control in whatever I wish to do. My people here just can't believe their eyes and ears. I've tested my speech in practically all walks of life and the results are simply marvelous. Everything is working and happening the way I want it to. People here are just wondering however did such a miraculous change ever happen to me in such a short time. I am a very intelligent person Mr Bell and I have every point you made on the course and after all the trials and tests I conclude that everything you mentioned on the course is true and works in entirety.

I came to you to attend your course just as a normal reasonable human being ready to absorb any instruction to be imparted by the instructor. That approach is extremely important for any person who endeavours out on such a quest. I come from a very powerful and aristocratic family. I don't need to tell you Mr Bell how an autocratic family results in a child developing a few emotional problems, and of course the speech problem, of which I'm now absolutely free due to your teachings on the course.

By the way Mr Bell 14th of April, the final day of the course was in fact the New Year Day in the Bengali Calendar Year 1407 and that was the day I was reborn !

So I didn't have the opportunity to Thank You on the last night of the course but to say Thank You to someone who has given thousands of people the freedom of expression and a full life to live is a little bit absurd, don't you think so Mr Bell ?

As you will know I moved to Taiwan shortly after attending your course in June 1989. As linguistic Chinese skills have developed, (10 years is nothing for Chinese!) I have recently been giving many outside talks to other professionals who are working in the field of rehabilitation as I am, sometimes to large groups. The point I wish to share is that such activities would have been impossible for me before the course. However it culminated in a TV interview some weeks ago which was broadcast last Sunday, it was unusual looking at oneself on TV and thinking back to what things were like before.

Anyway I offer you these comments as encouragement to continue in your good work, you have a wonderful skill to free people from the misery of stammering and hope you can reach out to others like myself.

I attended your course in November 1993 and I'm glad to say that 10 years later I'm still speaking fluently, so much so that I have recently passed my exams as a hypnotherapist, although haven't yet been able to cure anyone of stammering, but who knows in the future maybe.

Anyway a big thanks to you and your course, it changed my life and I hope you continue your good work for many years to come.