WE CAN BE BETTER SPEAKERS EVEN WHEN WE STUTTER! Many of our members had a renewed energy and outlook in their everyday speaking challenges and can now face them with their heads held high and proud that they are working hard to overcome stuttering.
Brendan Comport, one of the first students on The McGuire Program for People Who Stutter remembers when the penny dropped 20 years ago and he could see a way to be free of stuttering.
During our recent McGuire Programme – Beyond Stuttering course in Las Vegas, I was approached by some hotel guests (strangers to us) in the hotel where we were doing our training who were very curious and asked what we were doing.
law student Chase Hamilton rides the Blue Line from Minneapolis to the Mall of America in Bloomington to talk to strangers — 100 of them, in fact, one by one, mostly at random to overcome speech impediment.
The USA/Canada region of The McGuire Programme – Beyond Stuttering were delighted to offer our first online course for people who stutter/stammer in the USA and in Canada.
We are thrilled to report that our first live virtual course took place in December 2020 for people who stutter/stammer and it was a huge success.
We Zoomed around the world yesterday raising awareness of stuttering
The McGuire Programme – Beyond Stuttering held its first virtual staff training.
A UK McGuire member, Anthony Gray, wrote an article for the Edinburgh University newsletter to celebrate and spread the awareness of stammering for International Stuttering Awareness Day on the 22nd of October titled: ‘Living with a stammer was difficult: My story of overcoming a stammer.’
Imagine having thoughts of changing your name because you simply cannot say the name you were born with.
People finishing your sentences, or being told to “spit it out”, here are nine things people with stammers hear all the time.
