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  • Starbucks Day of Action, 24th Oct

    Starbucks & The Name Thing

    One of Starbucks USP is asking for a name. This has come under a challenge from STAMMA, the national charity for people who stammer, who are calling for a Day of Action on 26th October.

  • Eva Rinaldi - James Earl Jones

    James Earl Jones

    On the passing of James Earl Jones. As someone with a stammer (or a stutter), he will continue to inspire generations of people who themselves grow up with a stammer, showing that talking differently needn't be an obstacle to achieving your dreams.

  • High Flyers: Fundraising Experts Cate Birch, Fiona Stewart and Communications expert Penny East.

    STAMMA Appoints High-Flyers to Support 'Space to Stammer'

    In support of the charity’s ambitious new strategy ‘Space to Stammer’ the organisation has appointed two high flying fundraising experts to their Board of Trustees: Cate Birch, Head of Fundraising at York Minster and Fiona Stewart, Philanthropy Lead at Comic Relief alongside Communications expert Penny East.

  • Roger Pim pictured

    STAMMA Appoints a New Chair

    STAMMA has appointed Roger Pim as its new Chair, who will sit on the Board as Chair Elect until October when Acting Chair Paul Fix will formally hand over the reins. Roger first got involved in the charity in 2004, as a founding Board member of the Scottish Branch of the British Stammering Association (now STAMMA). The vacancy came about when Joanna Gaukroger stood down for health reasons.

  • Hands holding placard reading 'No Diversity Without Disfluency'

    DECLARATION OF THE RIGHT TO STUTTER

    STAMMA have joined 61 other organisations around the world calling for the Right to Stutter on International Stammering Awareness Day. On a day normally flooded with stories about overcoming, STAMMA and other organisations are pushing instead for stammering to be accepted.

  • (Crowd Picture) - SUMMARY OF 2021 YOUGOV POLLING CONDUCTED FOR STAMMA

    How Many Adults Stammer?

    STAMMA has been working with J. Scott Yaruss (Professor in Communicative Sciences and Disorders) and his team at Michigan State University on YouGov Polling to ascertain how many people believe they have a stammer. Their latest 2021 polling suggests a figure of 2%.

  • STAMMAFest logo

    STAMMAFest GLOBAL OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS

    STAMMAFest Global, combining STAMMA's bienniel conference and the International Stuttering Association World Congress is now taking submissions for their conference in Liverpool, 24-28 August 2022.

  • Claimant "did not give the impression that he was struggling with finding words or being able to communicate.""

    Mr M Neto v Packaging Automation Ltd & J Thompson

    STAMMA is disappointed in the judgement in this case. Many people who stammer use avoidance techniques to hide or manage their stammer to the point that when they say that they stammer, struggle to talk, they are disbelieved. Future litigants need to demonstrate that the stammer has a significantly adverse on their life and we'd urge them to bring in professional expertise to help them prepare.

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