Since joining the program, Mr Westwood has moved on from the job he hated and now works full-time as an audio visual technician — and he loves it.
People finishing your sentences, or being told to “spit it out”, here are nine things people with stammers hear all the time.
Georgia Scott’s stammer once prevented her from saying her own name – now, she documents her condition to millions on TikTok in the hope that she can help educate others.
NEW* Listen to an additional ‘Bonus Chapter’ from the Beyond Stuttering audiobook narrated by Dave McGuire, the founder of the McGuire Programme. Dave McGuire gives…
“These guys started out on Wednesday night not being able to say their names, Thursday night they can say their names and addresses, Friday they were able to do telephone calls to complete strangers, and here we are on Saturday watching them find new confidence in their voice and putting it into action”.
Tuesday, January 09th at 9 pm on ITV Taster clip ‘School For Stammerers’: https://we.tl/vfckUJEoOU
Last month, we returned to Newry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland to hold our FIRST In-Person course in over 2 years. 11 New Students attended the course and they worked really hard over the 3 days. The parents of the under 18s also attended and they played an important and active part in this course in encouraging and helping the new students overcome their stutter. A great team effort!
Back to doing what we do best! Working hard on our stutter with face to face, in-person interactions.
Since joining The McGuire Programme I have attended numerous courses and improvement days throughout the UK to help with my speech which I have worked hard on. I practice every day so that I don’t fall back to how I was before joining the programme.
Stutter School Documentary sets sights on the international format. Southern Pictures doco series for SBS looks set to go global.
Martin Coombs always showed courage, bravery and was a winner. He was a member, coach, course instructor and staff trainer on our programme. ‘B’ words and sounds were a huge challenge for Martin so he changes his name to ‘Bill Bottle’ until he had overkilled that fear. Martin embraced and practised all the techniques taught on the programme with a fighting and never give up attitude.
We are thrilled to announce the release of the long-awaited Audiobook Beyond Stuttering written and narrated by Dave McGuire.
