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Your articles on life with a stammer
Stories, articles, opinions, poems, art and more from people who stammer. Read about their stammering experiences.
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Mon, 25/10/2021
Add 12-year-old Malachi to the long list of writers who stammer. Here, he and mum Ritah tell us about his achievements.
Tue, 31/08/2021
Jessica talks about worrying for her 4-year-old son who stammers. Not knowing how to support herself, she looked online for tips. Here she shares the things that help her cope.
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Fri, 11/06/2021
Debra tells us about getting over the panic she experienced when her 3-year-old started stammering.
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Thu, 22/10/2020
Last month we shared a poem from Sam, which made him something of a celebrity. But when he saw one headline describe him as a sufferer, Sam and his mum Victoria decided to do something about it.
Fri, 25/09/2020
When Rick Arenas was a boy, his family didn't talk about his stammer. But when his own son came to him for advice for living with stammering, he decided he didn't want to take the same approach.
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Wed, 23/09/2020
When Victoria's son Sam started stammering she felt worried, guilty and helpless. But with the help of speech and language therapy, she learnt how to support Sam and make him see that there's nothing in life he can't do.
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Wed, 09/09/2020
Read the poem by Sam (aged 10) and his mum Victoria, and watch him read it out.
Thu, 02/04/2020
Speech & Language Therapist and Mum, Jaclyn Morton, argues that we need to change the language we use with our children who stammer.
Wed, 18/12/2019
Emily tells us how a kindly shopkeeper gave her son Dexter the confidence to speak to Father Christmas.
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Tue, 17/12/2019
In the first of our special series of articles for Christmas, Peter Wright tells the heartwarming story of his seven-year-old daughter, who hoped for a speaking part in her school’s nativity play.
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Thu, 07/11/2019
Dori shares her regrets about making fluency the goal when her son started stammering, and explains what she would do differently.
Tue, 29/10/2019
Mum-of-three Tessa shares her worries for her youngest son who stammers.
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