Research even shows strong evidence that music can also fight anxiety, therefore it can also help to defeat the stuttering problem too. Music was never thought to be effective against stuttering/stammering until it was tested on a person who had a speech impediment. If you cannot hear yourself stuttering, you would not even stutter at all. The brain also cannot detect the speech and causes it to forget about the stuttering. If you are a stutterer and you try to speak while listening to music with your headphones on at the same time, the brain focuses on the music more often than your speech because it does not know that you are actually speaking. He was finally able to speak much more fluently without stuttering because he could not hear himself speaking. Musharaf started to listen to music with headphones on and began reading a poem. He couldn’t even say a single word until his teacher Matthew Burton decided to help him overcome his stutter. There was an 11 year old boy named ‘Musharaf Asghar’, who had an extremely severe stutter/stammer. There is a ton of video evidence on YouTube showing that music is also extremely effective against stuttering. Listening to loud music with your headphones on actually helps to fight against anxiety and stuttering, but not way too loud to damage your hearing. “I would find rapping very similar to singing in the aspects of having a fluency component and the familiarity of memorizing lyrics to be helpful as well,” says Gorecki. Singing has been identified as having important therapeutic potential, and research has provided evidence in favor of this approach for enhancing fluency among individuals who stutter. “Most existing treatments have focused on teaching individuals ways to produce more fluent speech through a speech therapist,” says Lori Gorecki, speech/language pathologist at Advocate South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest, Ill. It is characterized by repetition of words or parts of words, as well as prolongations of speech sounds.

Stuttering is a speech disorder that involves problems with the flow of speech. “He raps very fast and very melodically and very percussively and it helped me get rid of the stutter,” Sheeran said during the event. When he was 9-years-old, Sheeran learned the words to every song on Eminem’s CD “Marshall Mathers.” The institute honored Sheeran at the event, and he credited Grammy winning rapper Eminem for helping him conquer stuttering. Billboard topping musician Ed Sheeran shared his childhood struggle with stuttering at the American Institute for Stuttering’s Free Voices Changing Lives Benefit Gala in New York City earlier this summer.

That one stuttering song