Ticketing has now closed for STAMMAFest Global, with over 300 delegates expected to attend. Among the discussions taking place will be 'Is there beauty in stammering?', creating change (tackling discrimination) through litigation, and how to encourage employers to create a better working environment. Speakers include Actor and podcaster Scroobius Pip and poet Owen Sheers.
STAMMA are holding an international stammering conference at Liverpool University, 24-28 August. A 5-day extravaganza which incorporates STAMMA’s biennial conference and the International Stuttering Association’s (ISA) World Congress. Speakers include actor and podcaster Scroobius Pip, author Hannah Tovey, Poet Owen Sheers and activist Patrick Campbell.
Help us to promote free places for children and parents who are Speech and Language Therapy clients living in Liverpool or Sefton. This one day conference aims to give children and teenagers who stammer a chance to connect with others and provide a space for parents of young people who stammer to share their experiences.
STAMMA has partnered up with the UK’s best-known cinema advertising contractor Pearl & Dean for a world first, a short film promoting a petition calling for people who stammer to be visibly and authentically portrayed in the media.
STAMMA announce Colin Firth and Claire Foy as winners at ‘The Stammies’, the world’s first awards for stammering in film and TV.
STAMMA, The British Stammering Association, is urging broadcasters, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV and the BBC, to include people who stammer on the small and silver screen in a love letter on social media, supported by organisations around the world representing those who stammer/stutter.
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 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.
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.
A comical film, Not Just One Day, has gone live on STAMMA social channels. The film follows the inner monologue of someone who doesn’t really believe in petitions, and finds them mostly vague or unrealistic, with the one exception being the new petition from STAMMA, which provides a focused and actionable change.STAMMA, which marks International Stammering Awareness Day on October 22nd with the l
STAMMA launch campaign to see and hear people stammer, or stutter, on TV, radio and film. They believe that any efforts to ensure diversity and inclusion must include a drive to ensure that people who stammer are included.
APPLE issue iOS release to stop their devices prompting a woozy face when the word stammering is typed.
STAMMA, the British Stammering Association, have been contacted by hundreds of members who have found that a ‘woozy face’ 🥴 emoji automatically appears on their phone or ipad when typing in the word ‘stammering’.
The BBC will launch its Internal Stammering Support Network tomorrow. This follows hard on the footsteps of ‘I Can’t Say My Name’, an acclaimed documentary which aired on March 10th this year, after which its presenter, Felicity Baker, was inundated by messages of support from the public as well as from staff at the Corporation.
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STAMMA, the British Stammering Association, are delighted to announce that they will be hosting the 2022 International Stuttering Association (ISA) World Congress in Liverpool. This will be combined with STAMMA’s own biennial conference. The conference will be held on 24th-28th of August 2022 at the University of Liverpool.
It’s not uncommon for a person who stammers to have not spoken to another stammerer and for them to feel alone, not understood or even feel that they need to hide their stammer from society. A group of stammerers want to change this and have come together to organise an event focused on celebrating stammering.
Following publication of his book, 'Words Fail Us; In Defence of Disfluency', Jonty Claypole, outgoing Director of BBC Arts, has joined Scroobius Pip, Margaret Drabble, Kelly Brown, David Mitchell and others as Patron of the British Stammering Association.
Organisations representing those who stammer, or stutter, around the world have come together to congratulate Joe Biden on his inauguration. The first President of the United States of America to have a stammer.
Stammering made headline news last night as Stamma member and reporter Felicity Baker made her debut report for BBC News, with an item about stammering and Joe Biden.
