Jason D’Souza
OH, MY WORD(S) !!!!! Words, those dreadful words. Why won’t they just come out? Why all the chaos? Why all the drama? No one else seems to have a problem, why only me? Eyes blinking, face twitching, feet tapping, hands slapping, oh why won’t you just come out? Let me be normal, let me fit in, […]
Todd Boddington
I have stuttered all my life, I have tried many different speech therapies throughout my childhood but nothing worked. I gave up on my speech and settled for a life of holding back and living in fear of speaking, I put all my efforts into my soccer career which I did well in. This is […]
Stephen Woods
Before I joined the McGuire programme at age 24 I had developed my own techniques for hiding my stammer. Such techniques I thought were working pretty well. Over the years I had managed to hide my speech problem, moving from an overt to a covert stammerer. My tricks and word-foolery were so refined that my […]
Scott Monson
I joined the Programme in April 2007 at the age of 35. Having stuttered for my whole life, I had achieved little success with various intensive programs and other treatments over 30 years. Because of these past experiences, I started my first course with little expectation of a “magic cure” for my stutter – but […]
Robert Lucas
My name is Robert Lucas, from Adelaide in South Australia. I have become a Staff Trainer, Course Instructor, Coach and do Evaluations for David McGuire, the founder of The McGuire Programme. I did my first course of the McGuire Programme in January 1999. I was a very bad stutterer who would shy away from every […]
Riley Cadman
It took me two years to build up the courage to enrol on a business college and I quit 4 weeks into the first semester due to my stutter and all of the negative energy I had. I was ready to throw my life away and not proceed in my further studies to lead me […]
Rick Nelson
I joined the McGuire Programme back in 2004 at the age of 19 and can easily say it has been one of the best choices I have ever made in my life. I arrived at my first course feeling a large amount of scepticism about whether it would work for me but I knew there […]
Phil Jeffrey
I have been with the McGuire Programme since 1999 and became a course instructor in 2008 and Staff Trainer in 2010. Being on the Programme has given me the tools to tackle challenging speaking situations and achieve what I want in my career. I enjoy giving back to the Programme and helping new students overcome […]
Peter Gishla
My name is Peter Gishla. Before I went on my first McGuire course I was very shy, not wanting people to find out I was a stutterer so I often withdrew from social interaction. I was hesitant about going on the McGuire programme because I had tried so many other things which didn’t work (they were: […]
Peter Baade
I struggled with stuttering from a young child. Oral presentations at school were the worst, along with those awful memories of spending a minute struggling to get a word out, then realising that my listener had no idea what I just said. After my first course of the Mcguire Program in 2000, I had an […]