Tipperary woman overcoming stutter affliction advises others effected to seek help
A thirty year old Carrick-on -Suir woman who has had to battle from a young age with a stutter impediment has appealed to people having to cope with the same problem to seek help. Shelly Ryan has made huge strides in overcoming her challenges by getting up the courage to enrol in the McGuire Programme […]
16-year-old from Upminster, UK to become one of the youngest speech coaches on the McGuire Programme.
A teenager from Upminster, who overcame his own stammer, is now going to help teach others. 16-year-old Callum Wells has lived with a “covert stammer” his entire life. Growing up, he had to make constant efforts to avoid stammering and situations which might induce it. “It was very exhausting, my mind was constantly alert for […]
Overcoming Stuttering Along The Banks Of The Newry Canal
2018 is closing its doors and what a way to sign off the final Irish McGuire Programme course of the year! The ripple effect from the ‘School for Stammerers’ documentary is still inspiring people to seek the path to articulate eloquence. Seventeen people courageously stepped forward to take control of their stutter in Newry. The […]
The difficulties and lost opportunities of living with a stammer
ADVICE COLUMN WITH OPERATION TRANSFORMATION PSYCHOLOGIST DR EDDIE MURPHY
Katie Walsh on The Late Late Show (RTE)
View the short interview with Katie Walsh about being bullied as a child with a stammer
Finding her voice: How a mother of three finally overcame her lifelong stutter – aged 53
A stammer held Margaret O’Brien back for decades until she plucked up the courage to do something about it, writes Margaret Jennings
AT age 53, having hid behind a speech impediment all her life — avoiding social situations, lacking in confidence and unable to hold even a normal phone conversation — Cork mother of three Margaret O’Brien finally found her voice.
Although the Bandon-based head care assistant with the HSE had been working at the local community hospital for over three decades, her world otherwise had always been tightly held in rein by the fact that she stammered.