My father took the NCS workshop in San Francisco 22 years ago and it ‘cured’ his stuttering. I am in my second month of this New Program and I can honestly say that my stuttering has been reduced by more than 80 percent and that feared words are gone completely. All that remains is for me to use the MotivAider to remind me to use technique in all speaking situations until it becomes a habit.

DB - Tulsa



I am a retired bookeeper. I stuttered forever. I could not afford anti-stuttering devices nor could I afford regular therapy. When I was approached by The National Center For Stuttering to join a group testing their new ‘self-administered’ program for free, I jumped on it. Glad I did since I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel. Not only do I have tools for preventing stuttering (they make a big deal about not treating stuttering, but preventing it by working on the trigger), I now know why I stutter and that has empowered me.

JSS - NYC



One of the reasons I always failed at previous therapy was that while I was good in the therapy room, as soon as I stepped out in the real world, it all fell apart. I never understood the reason until just recently. I now know exactly what I have to do to become fluent. I can see signs of the technique beginning to work everywhere but I know that this program will easily require the hour a day of practice for a year or more. I guess when you’re 74 and try to change something as deeply ingrained as stuttering, you’ve got to be patient.

FM - Aberdeen



I had read Stutter No More online and it made a great deal of sense to me. I am a college professor (math) and the analytical approach offered in his book was more appealing than anything I had ever read on the subject. Frankly, there is far more nonsense in this field than sense. I had spoken to a number of therapists about their approach to stuttering and most didn’t seem to have a clue. When I asked them about STUTTER NO MORE, they had not read the book. At any rate, I took the workshop in New York and immediately began to improve. I am a closet or hidden stutterer and I was soon able to say most of my feared words. When this new program came out, I ordered it, not because I felt I needed it, but because I thought I would be a wonderful refresher course for me – and it is. Not only has it brought me up to date, but it showed me some slippage in my technique that I have been able to correct.

AG – New York



I went to a speech clinic at a local university and asked if they used the Air Flow Technique (NCS now calls it Intent Therapy – it is more accurate). They said absolutely not, that there was no research to substantiate it. (By the way, that’s not true. There is a great deal of research. In the literature, it is called, The Regulated Breathing Method) I said, OK, and asked them what technique they used. They hesitated and said it was eclectic. I asked for the research that substantiated their eclectic approach. (I am a researcher and am fully able to read and understand research papers.) They again hesitated, looked uncomfortable, and just plain stalled. I walked out of the place. If there is anything I can’t stand it’s a hypocrite. I’m using Air Flow Therapy and it works. Finis.

WT – San Francisco



I was hesitant to try another approach with my child. He had been in Speech Therapy in school since he was 8 (he is now 15). None of it helped. No, that’s not true, one did help, but he said he sounded weird and refused to use. It did sound weird - almost like singing. A therapist who is my neighbor introduced me to Stutter and More and I read it in an evening. I called the 800 number and discovered that NCS had been working on a new program and would I like to enroll my son in it? Well, it came the next week and I have been monitoring my son and he is now fluent at home and when he visits my folks and when he speaks on the telephone. He is so excited about it that I have to remind him to follow the exercises that have been laid out and not to try to jump ahead. The fact that he calls in weekly to have his speech monitored is important because each day’s practice is prep for that call.

PT – Seattle



Air Flow Therapy is the answer if you are not lazy. An hour a day of practice is a must. While it may not be for everyone, I am one of those that spent the money on a device that was supposed to stop my stuttering and didn’t. I am now using that device again, only with Intent Therapy, it is finally doing what it was supposed to do.

JA – Santa Barbara



Here is the idea that I had a hard time fully grasping: In this treatment, all of the important activity occurs in the half second before speech begins. When speech begins it’s all over. You have either gotten set properly or you have not.

NCS equates the technique to a sport. The sport is called your ‘new hobby’. You practice your ‘new hobby’ daily, put all of your attention on it and, as a by-product, you don’t stutter. But here’s the most interesting part: If you pay any attention to your speech or your stuttering, you are doomed to failure. I now know why.

HH – Las Vegas



Our support group has embraced the Fluency Store Program. At each meeting we play portions of the two presentations and practice together. We were formerly organized as a support group of people who stutter – but not espousing any particular approach. But when one of our members demonstrated the progress he had made, one after another, the others came along until we are now almost 100% Air Flow Therapy users.

Group - Tampa



Over the years I have sent a number of clients to NCS for treatment. The results have been generally excellent. With the new home program, the excellence continues.

Psychologist – Carson City



Do you want to know why traditional speech therapy is a disaster? Do you want to know how an entire field can be misguided? Then take time in your busy day to sit down and read STUTTER NO MORE.

NCS has nailed it.

FC – Hilton Head



I cannot say enough about the Staff at The National Center For Stuttering. They have been continuously supportive throughout the program. They’re called Tech Support people because they know the program intimately and can quickly point you to a solution to any problem you can think of. Most important, they constantly bring your thinking in line with reality. So much of our habitual thoughts about stuttering and about how we are going to get better are just wrong and our thinking must be corrected – if we are to succeed.

LL - Atlanta



I failed the oral part of the police officer’s exam twice. Once more and it was all over for me. My father and grandfather had both been on the force and it was my hope, ever since I was little, to follow in their footsteps. But stuttering was always in the back of my mind and I knew one day I would have to get up in front of a group of people and speak.

Nothing worked and after the fiasco twice, I had given up. Then I saw a newspaper article about this new self-treatment and ordered it. I was surprised at how logical it was. I have been practicing the program now for seven months. I don’t stutter, but I sometimes still look ahead and see feared words. Eliminating all the fear will come with time, I hope. In the meanwhile, I took and passed the oral. I am getting married in the fall.

JO – Staten Island