Sweeney’s Stuttering Update – April 2023

Good morning everyone,

I hope you’re having a lovely start to the day 🙂

We’re a good way into April 2023 and it got me thinking that it’s the perfect time for this month’s Sweeney’s Stuttering Update! I like to do these updates as a monthly log of my journey to speech fluency, bringing you along on the ride with me! So, let’s see how my stutter has been doing this month!

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Over the last couple of months, I have noticed a significant improvement in my speech fluency, with the frequency of stutters in my day-to-day life reducing drastically.

As I’ve mentioned a couple of times on the page in recent months, this is fantastic news, as it is showing that all of the hard work and time that I have put into my speech has been paying off. While I have to ensure that I keep building on this momentum, the improvements have helped to give me a lot more time to think about other stutter-related ideas, which has been an enlightening experience.

It’s given me the ideal opportunity to sit down and think over how I can not only continue developing my own fluency but how I can help support other stutterers and raise more awareness of stuttering across the world. You see, approximately 1 in every 100 people has a stutter, that is a crazy statistic if you think about it – we currently live in a world full of over 7 billion people, think of just how many people currently have, or have experienced a stutter in their life.

Despite this enormous number, awareness and knowledge about stuttering is typically very poor nowadays. The only people that seem to know about the different ways a stutter/stammer impacts people are the ones that either suffer from it or the surrounding family and friends of those people.

I know that this is a common finding for a lot of disabilities that exist and it’s something that I am very keen on changing. I am in no way a qualified expert in speech therapy, but after having lived with a stutter for as long as I can remember, I feel like I am in a very good position to share my past experiences, and hopefully help others who may find themselves in a similar position.

So, with all of that in mind, this month I am going to be going back to the drawing board, and am going to be thinking over some of the ways that I can increase the awareness of stuttering, and many other things going forward in life. If you are wondering how I am getting on, don’t worry, I’ll be updating you all along the journey like I always do 🙂

That’s all for today’s blog, what do you think? Do you enjoy seeing these monthly stuttering updates? Are there any other topics that you would like to see me take a look at on the page?

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Thanks for reading & I hope you have a lovely day!