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Writing from the USA, James shares his current state of mind in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, explaining how all the uncertainty, zoom calls and facemask-wearing is taking its toll on his speech and mental health.

We have been left a generous and very significant legacy by longstanding member Owen Simon, who died in 2018. Read about our plans for it.

Michael Derrig-Adams got into filmmaking after realising carpentry wasn't for him, and wanted his first documentary to be all about his experiences of stammering. He even managed to get Michael Palin to appear. Read about how it went...

Having a covert stammer, Jenny was used to hiding away. Here she explains how meeting others online helped her to transition, and how portraying herself differently built her confidence.

Michael tells us how his passion for football led him into a career coaching children.

Nicole explains how dance and yoga help with her stammer, as well as the challenges of learning a new language. 

Would a fluency device help Dave through a speech at his daughter's wedding?

James Hayden from New Orleans tells us what the hit Broadway and West End show means to him as a person who stammers.

Mark, who in part one of our three-part article wrote about his experience of having speech therapy in prison, gives us an update on how things have been after being released.

In part one of this three-part article, Mark wrote about his experience of having therapy in prison. Here his speech and language therapist, Stephanie Burgess of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, talks about working with Mark.

In the first in our three-part article, Mark tells us how having therapy in prison via video link had a transformative effect on him.