Skip to content Former MP Femke Merel van Kooten will be Del Ferro’s ambassador from 2020. As a young girl, she had a severe stuttering problem. For example, she was unable to pronounce her name for years, despite intensive speech therapy. It was Femke Merel’s dream to be able to speak fluently. At 13, she overcame stuttering using the Del Ferro method.
Femke Merel is an inspiring example of how dreams come true. For not only did she learn to speak fluently, she even secured a seat in the Lower House of the States General where she literally made her voice heard for the Dutch people.
She wants to be an example for other people who stutter, so that they too can fulfil their dreams.
Speech therapists usually assume that you have to learn to live with the stuttering.
She told me: ‘Learn to accept it. This is who you are.’
I couldn’t say what I wanted, which made me increasingly quiet. I was appalled by that. I was bullied and very insecure about myself. I always resisted that, because that’s not who I wanted to be. Now I have been stutter-free for 20 years.
People who do not stutter are often unaware of how disastrous life can be for someone who stutters. And the one who cannot get out of his words cannot tell this. To break this stalemate, this book was published, in which Ingrid Del Ferro explains her experience as a stuttering and breathing specialist and director of the institute.
She describes, together with journalist Lydia van der Weide, what lies behind someone who stutters. For anyone who stutters, as well as those around them: parents, friends, teachers and employers, who want to understand how stuttering can control someone’s life.
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