Category: News

A Tribute to Jeffrey

This is a tribute to the late Jeffrey Unerman, my life partner of eighteen years, a wonderful man and a stammerer. When I first met Jeffrey, his stammer struck me just as much as...

We’re looking for new ASC Trustees!

ASC is the leading charity of its kind in the UK. We support children who stammer and their families across the UK by supporting and...

Double the impact of your donation this December

Will you donate £10 to our Big Give Christmas Challenge Campaign? 

Review + Q&A: PARTS OF SPEECH by Tony Millett

The new memoir from Tony...

NEWS: Marks & Spencer becomes first UK employer to offer dedicated name badges for staff who stammer

Marks & Spencer has become the first UK...

NEWS: Action for Stammering Children appoints Ria Bernard as Chief Executive

We are delighted to share with you today the appointment of Ria Bernard as the new Chief Executive of Action for Stammering Children (ASC). In appointing her from a strong field of applicants, the Trustees commented on the strength of her vision for the charity, and her clinical and public policy experience. Ria is a …

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Help us set the questions for the future of stammering research!

Stammering charities, professional bodies, researchers, parents, teachers and young people who stammer have all come together to determine and define the most important research priorities. They have formed a steering group which have created this survey that will result in finding the most important questions to be answered by researchers, in the field of stammering.  …

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Action for Stammering Children’s Chief Executive, Steven Gauge, has announced he will be stepping down in May, this year.

The Charity, Action for Stammering Children looks back at the work...

Read our latest annual review

Highlights from our annual review 2020/21...

Georgie, 17, has created an emotional piano composition for ISAD 2021.

Georgie, 17, has composed...

An Evening with Ed Balls

Join Ed Balls in the kitchen as he cooks and chats with...

Travers Reid Award Winner

Congratulations to Rakesh Chowkalli...

Exciting news as we welcome a new Chair of Trustees and a new Vice President

On 1st April...

Our research activity – and the chance to take part!

Over the last year...

The Oxford Dysfluency Conference: learning from researchers across the globe

Last week researchers from...

We are taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2020

One donation, creates twice the impact...

Chair of Trustees, Joanna Hunter OBE, is stepping down next year.

Joanna joined the board...

Stambition

One-to-one career mentors for young people who stammer...

It’s International Stammering Awareness Day 2020!

Thursday 22nd October 2020 is ISAD 2020...

Lockdown sees 57% rise in calls to stammering helpline

The number of calls have increased...

Enhancing our understanding: stammering & mental health

Research shows us....

2.6 Challenge Triumph

Wow! What a day....

Michael Derrig-Adams, who raised over £13,000, was interviewed on ITV news and Channel 5!

Michael was interviewed...

“Over a fifth of Britons feel comfortable with jokes about stammering” finds YouGov Study

A new YouGov poll has shown...

Calling children who stammer and their parents for an online UCL research study

Find out more...

Travers Reid Hon FRCSLT Co-founder and Life President of Action for Stammering Children

Travers Reid...

Postcode lottery in specialist stammering services across the UK

Read our latest report...

Upcoming Event – Sir Michael Palin: Live on Stage at Cadogan Hall

Join Michael at Cadogan Hall on the 26th February 2020...

‘Strictly’ Leaderboard and Meet the Couples!

Meet the couples and check out who's top of the leaderboard!

Careers Networking Event

For young people who stammer, climbing the first rungs of the career ladder...

“When I met Michael Palin”

I arrived at the BBC studios filled with excitement for that morning...

We Did It! Thank you for helping us reach our Big Give Christmas Challenge Target

WE DID IT! Thanks to your...

Double Your Donation this week with the Big Give Christmas Challenge!

Help ASC raise £20k for the...

Congratulations Phoebe and Team Rickshaw!

They've done it! Team Rickshaw have completed...

Trustees’ Week: Claudine writes about her experience as a Trustee for ASC

I write these words five days...

Youth Panelist, Phoebe, to take part in BBC One Show’s Rickshaw Challenge!

Pheobe from the ASC Youth...

The Travers Reid Award 2018

Applications are invited for the 2018 Travers Reid Award to be made in honour...

ASC Youth Panelist, Phoebe, blogs about first ‘Stamback in Time’ Session

When we arrived...

Hard-hitting speech by fifteen-year-old student wins “Speak Out” Challenge!

Fifteen-year-old Erin...

Captain Jimmy Lang on why he became a Stambassador

It is important that children, who are our future, are...

ASC Launches Stamback In Time

Action for Stammering Children are very excited to announce...

Stambassadors – Inspiring Young People To Think Big About Their Career

Whether they’re moving on...

Stammering Network congratulate ITV on raising awareness of stammering

ITV has raised awareness...

COOP Community Fund – How to choose Action for Stammering Children if you live outside London

As we kick off the new year...

THANK YOU for Helping Us Raise Over £30k!

WE DID IT! Thanks to your generosity, we’ve managed...

Double your Donation with the Big Give Christmas Challenge!

Help ASC raise £30k for the MPC Helpline...

Ed Balls Talks to Nursery World about his Stammer and work with ASC

Every year on 22 October I make sure I show my support...

Chief Executive, Phil Pyatt, tells us about his first year at ASC

Well, it’s been over a year now since I became...

ASC Launches New Website in time for ISAD!

Happy International Stammering Awareness Day (ISAD) everyone!

Youth Panel Member, James, raises money for ASC!

On Saturday the 14th of October I set out...

Why Phil’s Stammer inspired him to become an SLT

As I grew up with a stammer, becoming a speech...

Colin Firth and Ed Balls host private screening for ASC

Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth and Ed Balls, former...

Coping with Stammering at University

A few weeks ago I was contacted by my speech and language therapist, Teressa Howarth...

ASC Youth Panel Member, Joe Allen, discusses stammering on BBC Essex!

I have been attending...

Latest News from the ASC Youth Panel

Another Saturday and another successful meeting...

ASC Youth Panel – One Year On!

From the Youth Panel first forming in September 2015...

Zain Ghani, ASC Youth Panel Member – Work Experience – Speaker’s House Event

Monday 17th October was...

ASC survey of stammering services

Action for Stammering Children has released...

A warm welcome to our new Youth Panel members!

ASC’s mission is to transform...

An Interview with Ben Cleary

Ben Cleary is a film writer and director from Dublin and his recent short film ‘Stutterer’...

An open letter to young women who stammer

In October 2015, ASC launched it’s Youth Panel...

Calling all parents!

As part of ASC’s continuing review of speech and language services across the UK, we have commissioned a survey...

A message from our Youth Panel

We asked Joel Winston, a member of our Youth Panel to write about what it's like...

A call to all SLTs!

Action for Stammering Children (ASC) has commissioned an independent review to help us...

One London Virgin Money Marathon place available!

On the Sunday 24th April 2016, over 50,000 runners will take part...

ASC’s newly appointed Youth Panel

The Board of Trustees of ASC recognise that children and young people...

Want to run for charity?

Action for Stammering Children (ASC) has some exciting news for you all.

Why we work with young people

Some thoughts from Jane Harley, one of...

May the force be with you this bank holiday!

Today is everyone’s favourite Friday…the Friday before Bank Holiday Monday! 

Training for the Marathon? Pft… I trained for the circus today (The Marathon runners win!)​

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Ed Balls: Help Unlock a Child’s Voice

I was honoured to join Action for Stammering Children (ASC)...

January Blues?

The festive period is now just a distant memory and the January blues are biting...

A Wonderful Time to Join ASC

It’s two days until Christmas and I haven’t bought a single present yet…

Intense!

It’s the last afternoon of the Michael Palin Centre ‘intensive’ (that’s a two week intensive group therapy course...

Children who Stammer Make Some Noise (and so do Michael and Ed!)

A number of London radio stations...

All in a day’s work

It was the last day of our two-week group intensive therapy course for young people who stammer aged 15 to 18...

‘Old Boys’ and ‘Old Girls’

We sometimes wonder what happened to children and young people who have attended for therapy...