22nd October: International Stammering Awareness Day

by: David Yates, Director of Acoustics at Syntegra Group

The theme of International Stammering Awareness Day (ISAD) this year is "being seen, being heard", which fits in neatly with the end of STAMMA’s No Diversity without Disfluency campaign launched last year. Help us bring the campaign home! This calls for representation of people who stammer in the media. Please sign if you are interested.

For more information about the campaign, and about stammering in general please visit the STAMMA website https://stamma.org/

Earlier this year we launched IOA Stammering Support Network, which aims to provide a place for those professionals involved in acoustics across the UK who stammer to come together in a mutually supportive environment. We invite fellow acousticians who also stammer to discuss concerns they may have about carrying out their role, where speech may be an important aspect. Through sharing our experiences and insights we hope to provide support to acousticians in all levels of their career where there may be some challenges around speaking fluently.

The group is also open to those involved in acoustics who wish to seek advice in respect of stammering for an employee, colleague, or even friend or family member. All those who stammer are different and it may be that the best thing we can do for an individual is to sign post to the most useful information on the STAMMA website.

The Support Network is set up as a Private Group in LinkedIn. The group will remain unlisted so that it does not appear on member's profiles, to allow discretion on the subject for those who require discretion. To gain access to the group the easiest way is to connect with me on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/dave-yates-acoustics) and send me a private message, I can then invite you to the group.