20-year old Muhammed Hassen conquers his fear of his stuttering speech impediment
The McGuire Programme is not a cure for stuttering but it teaches you techniques to help overcome stuttering. If it helped me it can help you too.
The McGuire Programme is not a cure for stuttering but it teaches you techniques to help overcome stuttering. If it helped me it can help you too.
Imagine having thoughts of changing your name because you simply cannot say the name you were born with.
We returned to Cork City in Ireland to hold an In-Person course for people who stutter. We were there for one reason only: to work on overcoming our stutter.
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A UK McGuire member, Anthony Gray, wrote an article for the Edinburgh University newsletter to celebrate and spread the awareness of stammering for International Stuttering Awareness Day on the 22nd of October titled: ‘Living with a stammer was difficult: My story of overcoming a stammer.’
This course reminded us of the tremendous benefits of spending 3½ days in a room with people who are all working towards the same goals. For our own benefit and for the benefit of the whole group. We used this dynamic to encourage each other to work harder, speak up more assertively and fully express ourselves.
During our recent McGuire Programme – Beyond Stuttering course in Las Vegas, I was approached by some hotel guests (strangers to us) in the hotel where we were doing our training who were very curious and asked what we were doing.
For the first time in my life, I could say whenever I wanted.
The course has changed everything – it’s made me a much calmer and happier person, my wife says I’m much less angry now.
I have managed to overcome my fears and it has made such a difference for me. I just want to let other people know that it can be done and you can take control of your life.
With every tribulation, there is now also ease which wasn’t there before. With my new way of speech, I am ready to embrace all the challenges that life has to throw my way, and I intend to take them head-on, eloquently.
Since joining the program, Mr Westwood has moved on from the job he hated and now works full-time as an audio visual technician — and he loves it.