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

When his daughter's boyfriend asked Dave for her hand in marriage, he said yes. But he soon realised it would involve having to make a wedding speech. Would a fluency device help him through it?

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.

What is it like to wake up one day and start stammering? That’s what happened to Hannah. 

When he was told that there was no help available for his stammer, Kirubel Workiye felt alone. Writing from Ethiopia, he explains how going to medical school made him realise that he had to find that help within himself.

Sarah Brooks didn't think she had the attributes needed to get a job. Here she writes about growing in confidence at university and starting up a business, with all the challenges it involves.

Think people who stammer can't work in the armed forces? Think again. Ian Edwards Jones served in the British Army for 23 years and here writes about how he rose through the ranks and proved the doubters wrong.

John, one of our longest-standing supporters and fundraisers tells us his story.