Neuroscience is a study of the nervous system with a primary focus on the brain. Neuroscience has now proven that the human brain is much like plastic, and can be re-shaped, remolded, retrained, and re-programmed as long as we live. Our most repeated thought becomes our dominant thought, and the dominant thought becomes our reality and who we are.
“The Neuroscience Method® uses mind-training to hear and speak only fluency”.
A severe stuttering habit is extremely hard to break and has caused stuttering to be viewed as an “incurable disorder” that should be accepted. Stutterers typically seek speech therapists for help. Unfortunately, 90% of speech therapists never stuttered and, thus, can’t understand the problem. The other 10% still stutter and don’t understand the solutions. Our hundreds of EX-stutterers have proven that most can stop stuttering. Neuroscience is the key because it teaches that the human mind can be reprogrammed and that bad habits will die through disuse, and new habits, habits of fluency can replace the stutter-habit-chain.
“Stuttering is not genetic or incurable. It is a deeply ingrained habit of hesitating before speaking. Then, thinking, fearing, and forcing words.”
Our Neuroscience Method® to Stop Stuttering was developed by Lee Lovett, an ex-stutterer, who stopped his stuttering by age 30 and overcame fears of speaking and learned to love to speak in all situations by age 40. Lee used a combination of (1) mind-training methods (including auto suggestions and self-hypnosis), (2) massive talking in his stutter-free-zones (which most PWS have) and listening to recordings of himself when fluent and reading aloud, and (3) using certain strategies, methods, tools to avoid appearing speech disabled. The foregoing one-two-three punch enabled him to speak fluently many hours every day, and not appear speech disabled for weeks and months at a time; thus, he gradually simply forgot to stutter. His stuttering died from disuse. He literally replaced his stutter-habit with a fluency-habit. Lee continued to practice his fluent speech and became a very successful public speaker in his profession. He never relapsed and has been stutter-free for forty years.
“Two sessions a day of verbal affirmations and visualizations, combined with speech techniques and practice, can break the stuttering habit.”
In the ensuing four decades, as a labor of love, he devoted his spare time to helping people who stutter (PWS) stop stuttering. In 2016, he released his first of eight stuttering-related books, explaining his core methods. Being long retired, he then began to provide stuttering therapy seven days a week, literally learning and improving his methods virtually every week and revising his books with improved explanations of his methods. By late 2023, he had given some 8,000 private stuttering therapy sessions to PWS, all no charge, and several hundred of his students, as he calls them, had stopped their stuttering. He has now trained a team of Certified Stuttering Therapists (all ex-stutterers) to provide stuttering therapy to PWS.
Lee and a team of his ex-stuttering students then created an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) charity, World Stop Stuttering Academy (WSSA), which later created the mobile app, StopStutter. Lee donates all of his royalties to WSSA/StopStutter and funds most of its losses, as he continues to provide stuttering therapy, for free, seven days of most weeks. This is not about money for Lee. He has a simple goal, which WSSA/ StopStutter share: Kick stuttering off the planet.
Our Certified Stuttering Therapist are EX-stutterers, trained exclusively to stop stuttering, unlike speech therapists (SLPs) who have little training to help stutterers.
As best we know, WSSA/StopStutter is the world’s only community of EX-stutterers and the only community that has posted online hundreds of text and video proofs that most PWS can stop stuttering and even learn to love to speak. As a charity, WSSA/StopStutter offers its services, programs, videos, speech clubs, hang outs, practice groups, methods, etc. for as little cost as it can.
