Adam Black, a McGuire Programme UK North Course Instructor and a teacher, who learned how to control his childhood stutter, has been awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen's New Year's Honours List, for his services to raising awareness of stammering.

The British Empire Medal was presented to Adam Black at a ceremony at East Renfrewshire Council Headquarters in Giffnock on Monday 12th August 2019 by Lord-Lieutenant Colonel Peter McCarthy.

Wow what a course this was here in Wembley, London.  19 new students started the journey to learn how to take control of their stammers.  Michael Joyes and Denise Admiraal put their stamp on this course with a great mix of discipline and fun.  The atmosphere grew and grew throughout the course as the new students gained confidence.  With a large number if new students, some graduates (who were not coaches) stepped up to the mark and start coaching the new students.  It was great to see such energy from the graduates as they set a perfect example to the new students.  We held lots of split s

The McGuire Programme UK North region held a very diverse and challenging four day, intensive, residential course for people who stutter / stammer in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, from Wednesday 26th until Sunday 30th June 2019.  Often on our courses the stutter / stammer is not the only issue to deal with.  Some people who stutter / stammer also have to live with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and other medical conditions.  This was the case for some people on the Harrogate course.  Another issue we had was one of the new students did not speak or understand English very well. 

Another amazing course was held in Bristol where 11 new students joined our programme.   2 of them were under 18 with a mix of severe and less severe stammers.   All did really well to follow the direction on our tough intensive course and all are feeling on top of the world right now.