HOW TO STOP STUTTERING & LOVE SPEAKING: EXPANDS ALL EDITIONS of "Stuttering & Anxiety Self-Cures" Paperback – September 7, 2021

The Lovett Method is an excellent comprehensive program to conquer stuttering.Update to my initial brief review. How To Stop Stuttering & Love Speaking by Lee G LovettIt’s BIG. It’s full of details. I have read and re-read this latest edition a few times now. I loved the third edition of Stuttering & Anxiety Self Cures:What 1,000+ Stutterers Taught me, and this newest book, How To Stop Stuttering & Love Speaking, is bigger and has more details, but it is the same approach to eliminating stuttering. I confess that when I received the third edition, I did not read it right away. I was judging a book by its cover, and size, and found it daunting. Once I finally picked it up to read, I was immediately hooked.Mr. Lovett’s method as explained in this book is thorough, instructional, extremely motivational, and a tough no excuses approach. You immediately know that he knows what he’s talking about.As a non-stuttering SLP, this book has given me valuable insights into the experiences of people who stutter explained only by someone who has experienced it themselves and who has conquered it. While the book is written for the person who stutters, as a self-cure, it has provided me with tools, instructions and numerous ideas on how to better serve my students.My current middle school students are making noticeable progress and they are feeling improvements in their speech and reporting increases in their confidence.One area in particular that has been extremely beneficial to me is the need to speak when you get the urge, to not overthink or plan out what you want to say as this spurs on more stuttering. This was something I had never considered. I’ve had to re-read the sections addressing this several time for me to really understand this concept.The overall premise of the treatment is that stuttering is a vicious habit, an ingrained habitual behavior that continuously reinforces itself. To break the cycle of stuttering; stuttering, frustration, fearing stuttering, increasing speech anxiety, then repeated stuttering, one must use a multifaceted approach. Broken into three prong approach, 1. mind training to change the mind set underlying and believing you can succeed, 2. Hearing oneself being fluent to reinforcing fluency, by speaking in your stutter free zones, and reading aloud, and 3. learning and using the tools and strategies, in order to produce fluent speech while the stuttering habit is being broken.There is overlap with each area. Some of Lee’s students who have achieved fluent speech cite one area as feeling more prominent in their recovery, but all say that all areas are helpful.New to this edition is a discussion of an additional book, Hexagon by John Harrison, to join the book, Speech is a River by Ruth Mead, mentioned in the Third edition. Both books were written by ex-stutterer who have resolved their stuttering. I have not read those books, however Mr. Lovett goes into the details on the similarities for self-cures advocated by those authors and the numerous similarities with his own method. Both of those works indicate they are all on to something!Also included is extensive information on the fear of stuttering and the extended amount of time to extinguish those fears. This is another area that as a non-stuttering SLP, I was not adequately educated on.Part V is expanded to include detailed information and links to the group SAC, Speech Anxiety Cures, which is an incredible group of people who stopped stuttering and included an online library of thousands of videos, coaching sessions, and lessons.I highly recommend this book to other Speech Language Pathologists and anyone wanting to eliminate their stuttering.Peggy BeaulieuMA CCC-SLPSpeech Language Pathologist.

A Book That Is Saving LivesIt is general knowledge that many stutterers are shy and reclusive, often living in abject despair. As the author has said, “Many of my stutter-mates have written to me about having no hope for a normal life and of their suicidal thoughts. Until now, there has been no hope for these sufferers. This book (and the author’s predecessor books on point) have changed that by showing a path fluency that works.I love this book, because it is beautifully written, and I have seen firsthand that its methods work. On some of the author’s websites and in some of his 1,000+ coaching videos, I have seen, watched and studied the faces of readers (the author’s students) who are applying the teachings in this book and I have personally observed how they have stopped stuttering and turned their lives around, and, justifiably, many of them have praised this book, its methods and/or the author as “life savers”. I have read and/or heard such positives and more from those ex-stutterers, all of which corroborate what is in this book.This book covers all of the materials in the author’s prior books, all of which have been reviewed with the most lavish praise, but this book does much more: It updates and expands his prior works and makes his methods ever so much easier to follow. Every detail of his methods is explained clearly and compellingly. The author reveals what he and his team of coaches (his ex-stuttering students) have learned from some 2,000 hours of coaching PWS in the past six years alone – resulting in a massive body of research (with incredibly positive results that boggle the mind. This author’s “science” does not come from the ivy covered walls of an insulated academia, but, rather, from the trenches in which stutterers struggle to survive. His methods work in the REAL world.It is so sad that the medical community, in general, still maintains that stuttering is “an incurable disorder” and holds that it must be “accepted”. Why is that? As the author notes, according to his communications with hundreds of PWS, 90% of speech therapists never stuttered and the remaining 10% still stutter. As the author asks, “Would you take golf lessons from someone who has never been on a golf course or who shoots 100 strokes over par?” Clearly, the medical community lacks the empirical data to know whether stuttering can be stopped or not. As the author says, “Stuttering remains an eternal mystery to those who have not stuttered and beaten it. Only stutterers can truly understand stuttering.” The author and his ex-stuttering students DID stutter but no longer do, and they have not relapsed in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and even 40+ years.The proof lies in the proverbial pudding. Seeing is believing, and I have seen that proof up close. The methods in this book (both in logic and in case-after-case) leave no reasonable doubt that stuttering is stoppable in most cases. (The author estimates that 90% of stutterers can stop stuttering.) This book provides a clear, convincing road map to fluency for stutterers.The ripple effect of this book and the success stories flowing therefrom is staggering. Literally, the lives of the stutterer, their’ families, their friends, their co-workers and countless strangers’, are being elevated.The book also provides many life-lessons for stutterers. It quotes psychiatrists, neuroscientists and M.D.’s as it discusses the mind’s neuroplasticity and the mind’s ability to be re-shaped through mind-training, which enables the stutterer to convert stuttering into a blessing.Also exciting, as the book explains, the author and his ex-stuttering students (who continue to coach as many as they can) are forming the world’s only community of ex-stutterers to help still more speech sufferers. If you stutter, you’ll want to learn about this community, its support groups and how it can help you.This book is a beacon and monument to fluency. I believe that it will be read for many, many decades to come. For stutterers, it well may never be topped.LELAND/WASHINGTON, DC