Asia Stutter-Ing Association (ASIA)

KARK footage of Dr. Brent Gregg and the Arkansas Center for Stuttering Research and Treatment

                            

Some light for this post.

This is a piece of song I want to share with you. Thhis korean music video is about how a girl fought her way up to be the top journalist. She does not stutter but she has met with boulders and rocks that almost many times trembled her will and agitated her desire to reach her dream.

The music is motivating and inspirational for me. So I would want to share with you and hope that whatever you do, you never give up!!

                            

Quotations that I pasted right behind my PC monitor so that I can read them everyday

“You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays.”

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I have been very blessed with the assistance and guidance I have as I travel along the road to overcome my anxiety.

I’m a mild stammerer, only faced words blockage when I’m super tensed up. I will avoid the words that I thought I couldn’t say and pretended to not know what to say so that the pause can be longer.

Lately, I also learnt some relaxation techniques and positive self-talk to better cope with my anxiety which will inevitably lead to my stuttering.

My relaxation techniques include deep breathing for 10 times and not thinking about what may go wrong. I reminded myself the successes I have while talking and speaking. Soemtimes, it works; sometimes, it doesn’t. But what matter most is I know I tried my best.

Through these 9 years of braving the front, hoping to find a complete recovery, I realised that it is unrealistic to have a complete recovery. 5 relapses took place in a period of 2 months after I have painstakingly built up confidence for 3 months.

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I have signed up as a member for 4 forums which are started by remarkable people who have made great impacts in the lives of many PWS spread across numerous countries.

I have benfitted in various ways from these forums, reading posts by members who are PWS themselves, speech-pathologists, students in the field of speech pathology, parents with children who stutter and so on.

A bit of education here for readers who have no idea what PWS is. PWS stands for person who stutter. I have come across or read about PWS who are attorneys, managing directors, bosses of their own multi-national companies, hournalists, news anchors and so on. Despite having stuttering as a challenge, they are very successful in careers where speaking is a daily necessity.

The links to the online support forums are listed on the Right Side-bar under “Online Support”.

Below I will give you a brief summary of the description which I have cut and pasted from the forums homepage.

Go their forums’ homepage to read more so that you can have a better understanding of which you suit you best. You can join all if you want. There is no stopping you from achieving your goal of overcoming stuttering - which may be a life-long process of relapse and recovery…based on my experience.

1. Neuro-Semantics of Stuttering:

This list will serve as:

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