On International Stammering Awareness Day, STAMMA launches the 'End the Phone Call Nightmares' campaign, urging businesses to adopt free training to improve accessibility for people who stammer, preventing call mishandling and ensuring compliance with legal duties for disabled customers.
STAMMA are launching ‘End Phone Call Nightmares’ campaign, on 22nd October, claiming that millions of calls made by people who stammer are mishandled every year. Businesses have a legal duty to anticipate and act on the needs of disabled customers so they can access services. Despite this, the report found that 65% calls reported in their survey were mishandled.
THRYVE, a tech recruitment consultancy, is celebrating its’ 10th birthday with the announcement of a corporate partnership with the award-winning charity STAMMA, the national charity for people who stammer in the UK.
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.
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.
Scroobius Pip, Neville Southall, Ed Balls, Owen Sheers and thousands of supporters to take to social media to raise awareness of stammering on October 21st and 22nd.
The British Stammering Association (BSA) launches Stamma, a major campaign to reposition stammering as a serious issue and to challenge existing misconceptions of the condition.
