Help is available at the library

Self-Therapy for the Stutterer is the classic self-help guide by the founder of The Stuttering Foundation. It is written to and for the many adults and teens who stutter. The book is available at most public libraries.

If you stutter, you do not need to surrender to your speech difficulty because you can change the way you talk. You can learn to communicate with ease rather than with effort. There is no quick and easy way to tackle the problem, but with the right approach, self-therapy can be effective.

This book outlines a selftherapy program which describes what the person who stutters can do to work towards bettercommunication. It is often used as a supplement to speech therapy.

Charles Van Riper, Ph.D., wroteaboutthisbook: “There are always some who stutter who are unable to get professional help and others who do not seem to be able to profit from it. There are some who prefer to be their own therapist.

In this book, Malcolm Fraser has provided guidance for those who must help themselves. Knowing well from his own experience as a stutterer the difficulties of self-therapy, he outlines a series of objectives and challenges that should serve as a map for the person who is lost in the dismal swamp of stuttering and wants to find a way out.”

Since 1947, the nonprofit Stuttering Foundation has provided free materials to public libraries nationwide. A public library that will shelve them can download a request form at https://www. stutteringhelp.org/librariesinformation, email info@stutteringhelp.org.