Booklets and campaign

Stammering and employment Our booklet for people who stammer, whether looking for work or in work

Recruiting and developing employees who stammer A best-practice guide for human resource, personnel, and line managers.

BSA employment campaign Our campaign which created the two booklets above. Includes our employment launch in October 2001.

Equal Opportunities - visit to Scottish Parliament In June 2005 eight people who stammer, plus BSA Scotland Development Manager, Jan Anderson, attended the Scottish Parliament to meet with MSPs from the Equal Opportunities Committee (EOC).

Two ways to help BSA - careers guidance and Jobcentre Plus We want to hear your experiences of careers guidance for our new career guidance project. And have you had any problem contacting JobCentre Plus, particularly through telephone centres?

Let us hear your experiences We are interested in hearing your experiences of discrimination or good practice - on employment, goods and services, education, or anything else.

Speaking Out articles

Is fluency a communication skill? Is a stammer inconsistent with having "excellent verbal communication skills"?

The dreaded job interview: secret tips from an employer for people who stammer! What employers really want from you at an interview In this pair of articles, management trainer Chris Roach shows how you can give yourself the advantage by knowing what employers are looking for in an interview. (2005)

How to take control of job interviews Report on Terry Gillen's workshop at our 2002 national conference.

Minding your own business What does it take to start your own business? Does stammering make a difference? Speaking Out spoke with three BSA members who recently started their own business in photography, craft retailing, and personal coaching.

Access to career Andrew Harding reports on how electronic devices can be obtained through the Access to Work Scheme.

Stammering on the radio:     Going live...now - Gareth Cottrell does live broadcasts in Leeds and Tameside (also Making Waves).     Live on air and loving it - by Mark Lawrence, a radio presenter living in Germany     Voice over - copywriting and doing voice overs

In the army:     Army gave support and confidence to communicate - Phil Lowes was able to succeed and found it good preparation for civilian life.     Stammering within the British Army - Steve Brown on his experiences, and how people who stammer can achieve their goals.     Not limited in the army - short comment from a soldier who has found the army supportive.     Stuttering blocks British army career - Lee Heard says his experiences have left him stronger and more motivated.     'I had to learn to stammer before controlling it' Charlie Barnes felt more comfortable patrolling Basrah in Iraq than starting the Starfish course.

Air traffic controlling with a stammer!

Coming clean about stammering By a corporate coach and trainer.

Content wins more Respect than Style A stammerer's journey from low self-worth to high office.

Coping with phone fear in a call centre Answering the telephone all day was a demanding new challenge for Maria Larkin. Despite leaving the job, she says she would do it all again.

Driving instructor at last William Ingram explains how he uses the pressurised situation of driving instruction to his advantage.

Keeping the wheels on Paul Brown's positive attitude has not let his stammer stop him from building a successful career in motor racing. He is now a number one mechanic for Team LNT, and responsible for a GT2 car that was the winner in its class in Le Mans last year.

Made for the job - decoding the human genome is no obstacle with a stammer A person who stammers is one of a team working on the human genome project.

No Ordinary Ordination A BSA member is facing the call to the priesthood.

One day, Eric woke up and found that words failed him With determination, Eric Norbury has now become a nurse and lecturer.

Out on a wing Stand-up comedy with a stammer - Jaik Campbell on his 2003 Edinburgh Festival show.

Right - I'll prove them wrong! Tony Stewart describes how he progressed from installation technician to professor of public health, starting with a rude manager.

Stammering in law lectures by Michael Jefferson, a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the Unversity of Sheffield

Telling your managing director about stammering Would you tell your managing director about your stammer? Mark Limbert was put on the spot and hoped it would not harm his career.

Why I work in marketing and communications For Shakeel Suleman, having a stammer is a real disadvantage, yet one that has opened up other ways to communicate.

"Fluntering" - a new speech impediment A BSA member has been refused a job because of stammering and shares his thoughts and ideas about disability and discrimination.

A new look at stammering and disability (2006) It has often been difficult to know whether a person with a relatively mild or less overt stammer falls within DDA. New guidance reflecting comments by BSA should help extend the range of stammering covered. Also:     Levelling the playing field for promotions - tribunal case won by a person who stammers though under appeal (2007).     Reviewing the DDA - a brief overview (2004)     BSA calls for wider range of stammering to be recognised as a disability, plus other updates on DDA (2005).     A more than reasonable adjustment - an employer paid for a course and BSA conferences (2004)     Public authorities to have greater duties in future (2004)     No discrimination please, we're European on October 2004 legal changes.     Employment tribunal win - on employers' DDA obligations to adjust selection interviews (2003).

Do interviewers have a right to discriminate? People who stammer should have realistic dreams when it comes to employment, says Jim Day.

In brief:     BT's Open World - a postive experience of recruitment processes     Openness at work pays off - Paul Huxford emails colleagues on stammering     Growth factor - Simon Zipperlen

You may also like to look at the following websites:

Disability Rights Commission Vision: A society where all disabled people can participate fully as equal citizens.

Equality Commission for Northern Ireland Deals with disability discrimination in Northern Ireland.

Discrimination against people who stammer in the UK Allan Tyrer's website on stammering and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Also covers welfare benefits, and has links to many other websites.

The Real World - of Jobs In the Teens section of the Stuttering Homepage