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Become a Paid Ezy-Speech Coach!

As a member of the Ezy-Speech Network, you can maintain your own fluency by helping others, and get paid for it!

"As a recovering stutterer, I know the great feeling a lot of us get after long practice sessions. The feeling of being in control over your fluency is, as many of you would know, euphoric.

Many of us have had the experience of lack of control after periods of low levels of practice (self-inflicted), when we are tired, or simply just don't want to put in the effort. Convincing our brains to use our wonderful technique all the time is really up to us in the long run. We can attend weekly booster or maintenance sessions or spend a weekend a year at a fluency camp, but maintaining our fluency when we walk out those doors is really up to us!

I attended my first annual fluency camp many, many years ago. It was an intensive couple of days of fluency maintenance and the aim of the weekend for most was to gain as much benefit as possible in terms of fluency. I left that camp feeling so good, so fluent, I felt bullet proof. This was my first taste of carry-over fluency, or the fluency that lingers for a time after periods of intensive practice. How long this carry-over fluency lasts depends on the individual and the amount of practice he or she puts in after these events. If no practice is undertaken after periods of intensive maintenance, this carry-over fluency can last anywhere from a few minutes to a number of weeks or more. So, the answer seemed to be simple: do the practice, put effort in and reap the reward of continual carry-over fluency. Seems simple, but for many of us this simple task proves to be challenging.

At one of the many annual fluency camps that I attended, I was lying on my bed daydreaming. “Wouldn't it be wonderful,” I thought, “if I could work with one of these guys all the time, I mean, be around other recovering stutterers on a long term basis.” Many of us never seem to have a problem with our fluency when we are around other people who work on the same technique, and have the same resolve, to improve our fluency. It's amazing, you can be having some problems with your speech and suddenly you bump into a friend from the same fluency program and Walla! ... you're using technique, and your fluency has magically reappeared. Yes, wouldn't it be wonderful to help other stutterers improve and maintain their technique and at the same time, be maintaining our own fluency?"-Dave Edwards (Ezy-Speech Coach)

This is one of the many benefits that the Ezy-Speech Worldwide Network offers recovering stutterers. The network offers the services of not only our own Speech Pathologist, but also Speech Coaches who are recovering stutterers themselves. These services are offered to members of the Ezy-Speech Network to:

• Offer ongoing fluency support.
• Provide further training in the finer points of technique and transition.
• Provide written feedback to the member in terms of their use of technique.
• Provide written feedback of member’s improvement over time.
• Assess whether the member has potential to become an Ezy-Speech Coach.

You could live the dream, and one day become an Ezy-Speech Coach and help others in their quest to maintain their fluency.

Contact our Ezy-Speech Speech Pathologist to find out the standards and set requirements for Ezy-Speech graduates to become part of our fluency team. So, you could become a paid Ezy-Speech Coach and help others with their fluency technique while maintaining your own.

With effort and commitment, you could live the dream!