| Courses for People who Stammer
The City Lit, London
Stammering Therapy Courses 2009/2010
 Contact details | Intensive courses (day-time) | Workshops | Evening courses | People with learning difficulties
For further information, advice or to arrange an advisory interview, please contact:
Postal address: Speech Therapy, City Lit, Keeley Street, London WC2B 4BA
Direct line: 020 7492 2578 or 020 7492 2579 - to speak to a therapist best times to call are before 10am or after 3.30pm.
Email: speechtherapy@citylit.ac.uk
Courses are held either at Keeley St, or a few minutes walk away at EC, 7-11 Stukeley St.
Before joining any of the courses below, you will need to contact Speech Therapy at The City Lit to arrange an advisory session.
In the following, "we", "us" etc refer to City Lit.
INTENSIVE STAMMERING THERAPY COURSES
These courses take the form of group speech therapy.
Intensive speech therapy stage 1 courses
Our approach to therapy encompasses exploration of the emotional and psychological aspects of stammering as well as working with the stammering itself. Intensive courses have been shown to be an excellent way for people who stammer to work on their speech. They provide students with a period of concentrated speech work as well as time to explore the psychological aspects of the problem.
All courses are structured so that there is an initial intensive period and then a break of four or five weeks followed by the final part of the course. This allows students to practise what they have learned in therapy within the context of their everyday lives. Follow-up therapy after the course is highly recommended.
Stammering therapy intensives: an integrated approach
These exciting new courses are developed from Catherine Montgomery's New York programme. They are suitable for those new to the City Lit as well as people who have done previous courses. The courses integrate desensitisation, block modification and cognitive therapy. The key difference is that they introduce a fluency technique, vocal fold management. At the end of each course participants can choose the combination of therapy tools that suits them best. (There is more about this course in How I escaped the comforts of stammering by a course participant, and Fluency techniques and the skills to use them in one course.)
Tutors: Carolyn Cheasman, Jan Logan, Rachel Everard.
XS101 Stammering therapy: an integrated approach
Initial 2 weeks: 21 Sep - 2 Oct 2009 Final week: 9 Nov - 13 Nov 2009
Monday to Friday 10.00 - 17.00
Fee £328 Snr £249 Conc £77
XS103 Stammering therapy: an integrated approach
Initial 2 weeks: 25 Jan - 5 Feb 2010 Final week: 8 Mar - 12 Mar 2010
Monday to Friday 10.00 - 17.00
Fee £328 Snr £249 Conc £77
XS105 Stammering therapy: an integrated approach
Initial 2 weeks: 5 Jul - 16 Jul 2010 Final week: 6 Sep - 10 Sep 2010
Monday to Friday 10.00 - 17.00
Fee £328 Snr £249 Conc £77
Stammering intensives: block modification
On these courses you will work on identifying your stammering, becoming more open and less sensitive about stammering and reducing avoidance behaviours. You will also learn strategies to help you speak more easily.
Tutors: Carolyn Cheasman, Jan Logan, Rachel Everard.
XS102 Stammering management - an intensive course for those with less time
Initial 8 days: 27 Nov - 5 Dec 2009 (Fri, Sat, Mon - Sat)
Final 3 days: 7 - 9 Jan 2010 (Thu-Sat)
10.00 - 17.00
Fee £283 Snr £214 Conc £63
XS104 Stammering management - 2 weeks plus 3 days
Initial 2 weeks: 10 May - 21 May 2010 (Mon-Fri) 10.00 - 16.00
Final 3 days: 21 - 23 Jun 2010 (Mon-Wed) 10.00 - 17.00
Fee £283 Snr £214 Conc £63
Speak more fluently - a follow-up to block modification
Enhance your fluency skills by attending this unique course. You'll learn a fluency technique, vocal fold management, over a concentrated period. Suitable for people who have recently completed a block modification course or the equivalent.
Tutors: Carolyn Cheasman, Jan Logan, Rachel Everard.
XS205 Speak more fluently: a follow-up to block modification
26 Apr - 30 Apr 2010; follow-up day Monday 7 June 2010
Monday to Friday 10.00-16.00
Fee £129 Snr £81 Conc £32
WORKSHOPS
These daytime workshops are suitable if you have already had some speech therapy and want to refresh your skills or want to develop your communication skills in more specific ways. (See also topic-based evening courses.)
Speaking circle for people who stammer
Take part in a circle and enhance the way you come across to others.
XS202 13 Jan 2010 (Wed) 10.00 - 16.00
Fee £49 Snr £49 Conc £49
XS203 25 June 2010 (Fri) 10.00 - 16.00
Fee £49 Snr £49 Conc £49
XS208 Fluency skills update
Designed for people who have attended the new integrated intensive course, this is an opportunity for you to develop the fluency techniques and stammering management strategies you have learnt.
Tutors: Carolyn Cheasman, Jan Logan, Rachel Everard.
10 Feb 2010 (Wed) 10.00 - 17.00
Fee £51 Snr £51 Conc £51
XS209 Stammering hexagon: a holistic approach
Based on John Harrison's stammering hexagon, this course will give you a greater understanding of your stammering and help you identify barriers to change.
Tutors: Carolyn Cheasman, Jan Logan, Rachel Everard.
3 Mar 2010 (Wed) 10.00 - 16.00
Fee £51 Snr £51 Conc £51
XS207 Refresher workshop for people who stammer
This is for students who have already completed a stage 1 intensive or evening course.
Tutors: Carolyn Cheasman, Jan Logan, Rachel Everard.
19 Mar - 20 Mar 2010
Fri 10.00 - 17.00; Sat 10.00 - 16.00
Fee £73 Snr £50 Conc £43
XS201 Acceptance and commitment therapy: a new approach to stammering
Learn to work more effectively with negative thoughts and feelings through acceptance and mindfulness work. You'll identify, and move towards, valued goals and directions in your life.
Tutors: Carolyn Cheasman, Jan Logan, Rachel Everard.
24 - 25 May 2010 (Mon - Tue) 10.00 - 16.00
28 Jun 2010 (Mon)
Fee £97 Snr £67 Conc £57
EVENING COURSES for adults who stammer
Evening courses for adults who stammer take the form of group speech therapy.
Block modification stage 1 courses
These courses are for those of you new to City Lit. You will work on issues related to feelings, thoughts and avoidance as well as the speech itself. We encourage you to progress to a Stage 2 course.
Stage 1 stammering therapy
XS301 Stage 1 stammering therapy
14 Sep 2009 - 22 Mar 2010 (Mon) 18.00 - 20.00 (25 weeks)
Fee £182 Snr £182 Conc £109
Tutor: Jan Logan
XS304 Stage 1 stammering therapy
7 Jan - 8 Jul 2010 (Thur) 18.00 - 20.00 (24 weeks)
Fee £182 Snr £182 Conc £109
Tutor: Rachel Everard
Interiorised stammering
These are courses for people who are almost entirely successful at concealing their stammering. They aim to help you to identify overt and covert aspects of your stammer, reduce negative feelings, learn strategies to modify your stammer and develop self-confidence. (Article: On a hiding to nothing by pretending not to stammer.)
XS302 Interiorised stammering
15 Sep 2009 - 23 Mar 2010 (Tue) 18.00 - 20.00 (25 weeks)
Fee £182 Snr £182 Conc £109
Tutor: Carolyn Cheasman
XS303 Interiorised stammering
16 Sep 2009 - 24 Mar 2010 (Wed) 18.00 - 20.00 (25 weeks)
Fee £182 Snr £182 Conc £109
Tutor: Doreen Jowharsha
Stage 2 courses
These are for students who have attended a stage 1 evening or intensive course.
Some stage 2 courses develop the work you have done on desensitisation and stammering management. Other courses are topic based.
Stage 2 stammering therapy
You will review the speech work you have already covered and explore ways of further extending its use into everyday life. You will continue working on the process of desensitisation.
XS305 Stage 2 stammering therapy
8 Oct - 10 Dec 2009 (Thur) 18.00 - 20.00 (10 weeks)
Fee £97 Snr £97 Conc £58
Tutor: Rachel Everard
XS306 Stage 2 stammering therapy
6 Jan - 10 Mar 2010 (Wed) 18.00 - 20.00 (10 weeks)
Fee £97 Snr £97 Conc £58
Tutor: Jenny Yeatman
XS307 Stage 2 stammering therapy
21 Apr - 30 Jun 2010 (Wed) 18.00 - 20.00 (10 weeks)
Fee £97 Snr £97 Conc £58
Tutor: Doreen Jowharsha
Topic-based evening courses:
XS311 Mindfulness meditation for people who stammer
Through a range of meditation practices learn how to focus your awareness, cultivate calmness and develop non-judgemental acceptance. This course can help you apply speech techniques more effectively and facilitate your work on avoidance reduction. Articles: Revealing and healing - a mindfulness approach to stammering, and Becoming aware.
20 Apr - 15 Jun 2010 (Tue) 18.00 - 20.30 (8 weeks - no class 25 May)
Fee £126 Snr £126 Conc £87 (includes cost of 3 CDs essential for course)
Tutors: Carolyn Cheasman & Jan Logan
XS312 Effective communication in the workplace
Managing your stammer is often most challenging at work. Come and practise using the telephone, interview techniques, presentation skills and communicating in meetings, and develop your personal effectiveness at work.
19 Apr - 5 Jul 2010 (Mon) 18.00 - 20.00 (10 weeks - no class 3 May and 31 May)
Fee £97 Snr £97 Conc £58
Tutor: Jenny Yeatman
Communication skills for people with learning difficulties who stammer
Do you stammer and have a learning difficulty? Come and meet other people who stammer, talk about how stammering affects you and learn how to speak more confidently.
XS206 Communication skills for people with learning difficulties who stammer
20 Jan - 24 Mar 2010 (Wed) 14.00 - 16.00
Fee £97 Snr £97 Conc £32
The tutors:
The Speech therapy team at City Lit is made up of Jan Logan, Carolyn Cheasman, Rachel Everard, Jenny Yeatman and Doreen Jowharsha.
The tutors:
 have many years experience working with people who stammer
train other therapists working throughout the country
have counselling experience
have strong links with the British Stammering Association
have published articles and chapters on stammering.
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