Hi Tracey. Welcome to WSSA. I’m one of the Certified Speech Coaches here, and I used to be a very severe stutterer. I really enjoyed Silvia’s talk on SAM. You can also get to speak like her. It requires determination, patience and working on your speech every day, as much as you can, but you can definitely do it.
I stopped stuttering in 8 months, and that was before this website was created. I only had Lee’s book and his help as he was my coach. But I can say that all the things we have here would have helped me a lot to become a PWSS faster: the videos of coaching sessions, the video courses, the SAM meetings, the Crutch Practice Group sessions, etc…
Feel free to ask us anything, we’ll be glad to help you. Have a great day, and we hope to see you at the SAM meetings and Crutch Practice sessions more often!