Putting stammering on the map
BSA 25th anniversary

Speaking Out Summer 2003.

The lives of thousands of people have been changed for the better by the British Stammering Association since 1978. As a member, your support for our work is invaluable.

Some of our biggest achievements have been to campaign successfully for pre-school children to receive speech therapy, train more than 2000 teachers to help their pupils who stammer, and provide a unique information and support service to many thousands of people.

In October we will release the long-awaited CDs for schools. The result of our work is that stammering is now taken more seriously in the wider community, in schools, and our work to end employment discrimination means that employers now have readily available information to support employees who stammer.

In 25 years, the British Stammering Association has put stammering on the map in the UK. We thank you for your support so far, and invite you to support BSA, your charity, into the future. Supporters of BSA from the start give you their thoughts:

"The most significant achievement for me in the 10 years I have been with BSA has been the achievement of its vision statement of a world that understands stammering, and its mission to promote research, therapies and provide support."
Rebecca Forster, BSA secretary

"BSA helped me to believe in myself and not feel so isolated and that somebody understands. I am glad to have had the opportunity to be involved."
Brian Dodsworth, BSA President

"Since 1978 the AFS, now BSA, has touched the lives of many thousands of stammerers, for some it has changed their life, quite an achievement!"
Ron Turrell, founder member

"Learning to live with my stammer and communicate with confidence brought me huge liberation. That is why the BSA is so vital."
Craig Dunant, founder member

"It's 2003 - thousands of enquiries are dealt with by the fantastic information service. In 1978 I helped Peggy Dalton answer letters by hand with no office space, phone, paid staff and certainly no computer - what a difference 25 years makes!!!"
Carolyn Cheasman, specialist speech and language therapist

"Over the years, BSA has developed into an invaluable centre for gathering, coordinating and spreading advice, help and information. A great achievement - congratulations!"
Renee Bynre, specialist speech and language therapist

From the Summer 2003 edition of Speaking Out

See also:
International Stammering Awareness Day - October
'When the words won't come' - BSA's unique anthology of poems, stories and images of the experience of stammering