Support for Schools

Children spend a significant part of their lives at school. What happens at school, and a teacher’s ability to efficiently support a child who stammers, can affect the rest of their life. A child’s social environment doesn’t cause stammering, but their fluency can be affected by what is happening around them – positively and negatively – and that is especially true of their time at school. It is very important that teachers understand how to identify students who stammer and know how to support them as best they can.

On this page, we will provide information to help teachers effectively support a child who stammers, and tell you some more about the work we do in schools.

If you would like to speak to a specialist about any issues you have concerning support for a child who stammers, please call our helpline run by the Michael Palin Centre.

Pre-school
Primary
Secondary/college
Helpful videos
Tips for Teachers with Abed Ahmed

Abed Ahmed is a teacher who stammers from Birmingham and he sat down with ASC to give us some invaluable advice for teachers about how they can help students who stammer.

Erin Stoner, Champion, Jack Petchey’s “Speak Out” Challenge! Grand Final 2017-18

Erin Stoner of Westcliff High School for Girls in Southend and Rochford won Jack Petchey’s “Speak Out” Challenge! Grand Final 2018 at the Cambridge Theatre. Her speech was entitled A Speech for a Speech. Congratulations Erin for an excellent speech.

Things not to say to someone who stammers

Can you relate to these common misconceptions about stammering?

My Stammering Tap

By Hear In Hull – A City of Culture Creative Communities Project

An animation produced by young people in Hull, explaining what is is like to have a stammer.

Transitions

Transitions looks at the key moments that young people go through that can affect their stammer from changing schools, going to university or starting work.

Stambassadors

Stambassadors is a new project linking people from the world of work who stammer with young people who stammer, to learn about different careers.

Stamback in time

Stamback in Time is a heritage project involving the ASC Youth Panel looking at famous stammerers both present and in the past

Research

On this page, we will provide information to help teachers effectively support a child who stammers, and tell you some more about the work we do in schools.

 

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