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Job vacancy, BSA Scotland - Self Management Programme Co-ordinator

The Lidcombe Programme of early stuttering intervention - workshop for SLTs, presented by Mary Kingston and Sally Wynne. London, 4th & 5th October.

People who have recovered from stammering without therapy - University of Frankfurt would like to contact such people who have recovered but stammered beyond age 11, to fill in a short questionnaire.

Link to Fluency Tracker (external link) - app for iPhone/ iPod Touch. Says users will be able to "track changes in the frequency of disfluency, changes in avoidance behaviors, and feelings associated with speaking." Linked from our software page.

VoiceAmp for sale - VoiceAmp Classic VA601i device for sale.

Alex Vero's documentary on Marathon running is being re-shown by Channel 4 on Sunday 31st January.

World Congress for People who Stutter, Argentina - fancy a trip to South America next year? The 9th World Congress for People who Stutter will be held in May 2011 in Buenos Aires.

Link to Stutteredspeechsyndrome.com - Mark Irwin's website promotes the use of 'Stuttered Speech Syndrome' as a term to include the psychological condition of Social Anxiety Disorder. It also seeks to clarify the term 'covert stuttering'.

McGuire Programme Open Evening: Guildford - free Open Evening to find out about the McGuire Programme's intensive courses and follow-up support activities, Tue 16th February.

Items added to the BSA library:
    The brain that changes itself, Norman Doidge
    Coping With Stuttering, Peter Louw
    Agreed! Improve your powers of influence, Terry Gillen
    Leadership skills for boosting performance, Terry Gillen
    Tools for success: a cognitive behavior therapy taster, DVD by Frances Cook and Willie Botterill
    A psychology for living (2nd edn), Dalton & Dunnett
    Wait, wait, I'm NOT finished yet, DVD, Michael Palin Centre
    NAHT Annual conference 2009, BSA video.

Link to uStutter.com - social community for people who stammer, including videos, blogs, and forum. (Linked from Social networking websites)

Christmas and New Year closing - for general office and helpline

Participants wanted for research into social anxiety and stammering - participants are asked to complete and return a questionnaire. The research is at the University of Sheffield.

Newton Abbot self-help group - South Devon.

Help create an iPhone game - opportunity for young people age 13-19 who can travel to Swindon: iPhone / iPod Touch game about stammering.

BSA National Conferrence 2009 workshops:
    Succeeding in interviews, including handout notes - Terry Gillen
    Career Transition - Colin Marsh
    How to set up a self-help group, presentation slides - Rob Coe

Advertising standards ruling - ASA rules against another stammering "cure" advert. The ruling was reported in a Guardian article.

From the Summer 2009 edition of Speaking Out:
    Challenges of retirement
    Interviews can be enjoyable!
    Once more into the deep - teaching with a stammer
    A sensitive portrayal of stammering - James McAvoy in the West End
    What is your theory? - by Rosemarie Hayhow
    Working with Gestalt

BSA is now on Facebook, Bebo, Twitter and MySpace - we will be updating these regularly with news, events, comments, links to articles and blogs. Also we want to encourage dialogue - please feel free to contribute and have your say.

Fluency Trust and 'Speak' film now online - new Fluency Trust website. You can view online the full version of its film 'Speak', for young people who stammer. Also details of the Trust's outdoor activity and intensive therapy courses.

Running to the limits - Alex Vero, a filmmaker who stammers, presents his first major documentary on Channel 4 this December.

The BIG Cake Bake - Charmaine Burrow and Alison McLaughlin, SLTs at East Lancanshire PCT, raised £186 for BSA though selling cakes and Christmas cards at a staff meeting.

TV: stammering in Holby City - the latest Holby City episode involves a stabbing of a young person who stammers. You can view it on iPlayer - let us know what you think.

BSA conference call - Sheena Crompton is the guest speaker on 1st December: continuing her journey on the McGuire Programme. Any BSA member can phone in.

Get going with Fluency Groups: the Swindon Model - new two day course for SLTs. 25th and 26th February 2010.

Every Child's Chance of Fluency - the final report of our latest Early Intervention project is now available for download.

Cherry Hughes on Teachers TV - two minute interview with Cherry Hughes, our education officer. Also news report of Stammering Information Programme launch event with Ed Balls, Michael Palin and Cherry Hughes. You can see the two videos online now.

Stammering Information Programme is launched - a new resource for teachers by the Michael Palin Centre has just been launched. Ed Balls also announced money towards a new specialist centre in the north of England. BSA Press Release.

Going green for ISAD - wearing sea green, or a sea green ribbon, to mark International Stammering Awareness Day.

istutter.ning.com - new site linked from Social networking websites

BSA library online request form now available - as alternative to posting in a form.

Swimming the Channel - full account by Rachel Reed of her sponsored swim last month.

Fluency Trust Residential Courses, 2010 - intensive stammering therapy courses at an activity centre in Devon, for children and adolescents.

Channel swim video - watch the YouTube video of Rachel Reed's swim.

2nd European Symposium on Fluency Disorders - Antwerp, 23-24 April 2010. Call for papers.

Channel swim completed - Rachel Reed has just swum the English Channel, in 17 hours 23 minutes. You can sponsor her online to raise funds for BSA.

London to Brighton walk - this summer Pepe Ghumra and his brother did a 50 mile walk from London to Brighton, in aid of BSA. You can sponsor them online.

Bob Bodenhamer: creating mental pathways - in last month's BSA conference call, Bob Bodenhamer talked about the possibility of installing new networks in the brain to help fluency. You can listen to an exercise that Bob did with participants.

Misleading adverts - you can help - we have been campaigning against advertisments that give false hope by offering to 'cure' stammering. You can help for Stammering Awareness Day 2009 by flagging offending YouTube videos.

ISAD Online Conference 2009 - 'Stuttering: More Than a Tangled Tongue' - opens on 1st October. Read and discuss papers by professionals and people who stammer around the world. The conference is freely available.

BSA trustees page updated for 2009/10. Keith Boss and Colin Marsh were elected by members this Summer. Leys Geddes is now Chair, and Pete Hancock is Vice Chair.

Blether, Issue 9 - Summer/Autumn edition of the BSA Scotland newsletter.

'My Silent Pause', by Hunter Adair - book, free download. Born in the 1930s, Hunter tells of his experiences as a stammerer and the techniques he developed to control it, including the 'silent pause'.

Summer 'Scool 2009 - BSA Scotland's July event

Medway self-help group - Rochester, Kent

International recognition for BSA - at their recent World Congress in Brazil, the International Fluency Association awarded the IFA Consumer Award of Distinction 2009 to the British Stammering Association.

Research in Birmingham - researchers at the University of Birmingham are continuing their investigation into the possible source of stammering. Participants are needed for a simple reading study which involves the recording of eye movements.

Aberfeldy Walk and Talk, 2009: report - BSA Scotland's event over the summer solstice weekend.

Books added to the BSA library:
    Self-therapy for the stutterer (10th ed), Fraser.
    Voice catcher: an anthology, Kay (Ed.)
    Psychology for living: personal construct therapy, Dalton & Dunnett.
    The mindful way through depression, Williams et al.
    Young children who stutter (ages 2-6), NSA.
    Stuttering Stan takes a stand, Knapp (book review)
    Practical intervention for early childhood stammering: Palin PCI, Kelman & Nicholas (also book review).
    Effective counselling in stuttering therapy, Stuttering Foundation of America (SFA).
    The Genius of Dean Williams, SFA.
    Stuttering: an integration of contemporary therapies, Guitar & Peters, SFA.
    Stuttering therapy: transfer and maintenance, SFA.
    Understanding developmental language disorders, Norbury et al.
    Including young people with SL&C difficulties in secondary school, Afasic.

City Lit, London - 2009/2010 prospectus

'How to support BSA'

Reflections on a 40 year affair - Jackie Turnbull, who retired as a speech and language therapist in June this year, looks back at a career in stammering.

Every Child's Chance of Fluency - BSA's pre-school project has shown that with relatively minor adjustments SLT departments can dramatically improve their service. Article from the Summer 2009 Speaking Out.

Stammering in Parliament updated - including link to transcipt of oral evidence from Leys Geddes, and the Speakers Conference Interim Report.

Head Teachers conference film now online on BSA website.

Link to NHS Choices video about stammering (on YouTube) - Carolyn Cheasman, a therapist at City Lit, talks about stammering, and University student Jamal describes about his own experience of it.

Starting University - Adam Chaffer, a second year law student at Northumbria University gives some advice to students who stammer and are starting university.

Fluency Trust film: 'Speak' - "a short film for young people who stammer, made by young people who stammer." Watch the trailer online.

New page: News & notices

RCSLT: double MBE success - the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists is celebrating the award of two MBEs to its senior staff members in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours.

Stammering in Parliament - Leys Geddes, BSA's Vice Chair, gave evidence about people who stammer to a House of Commons committee this June.

From the Spring 2009 edition of Speaking Out:
    AAF research - where are we now?
    Action on Children's services - response to Bercow Review
    Becoming aware - mindfulness meditation
    DDA case on appeal
    I'm finding my own way
    Lancashire group raises £300 for BSA
    Masonic support
    Stammering and blindness revisited

More from the Winter 2008 edition of Speaking Out:
    Bilingual children at greater risk?
    Online education - review of www.stutter-ed.com
    Out of the blue
    Stammering: Advice for all ages - book review
    Starting out - early years of BSA
    Talkcoach launches into world of work

ASA ruling on adverts - we have been campaigning against ads that offer to 'cure' stammering. In June 2009 the Advertising Standards Authority made adjudications against two organisations running stammering adverts.

How is my money used? - some things that your donations enable us to do.

Online survey - Stuttering therapy and support groups: What works best? - Vanessa Castillo at Eastern New Mexico University would like to invite people who stutter/stammer to complete this online questionnaire.

Introducing cognitive therapy - Jane Fry of the Michael Palin Centre has expanded her article published in the Spring Speaking Out.

'Hammer the Stammer!' - a sixth-former who stammers organised this concert, which raised over £200 for BSA.

Link to www.stutteringcommunity.com (from Discussion boards), a 'support forum and community for people who stutter'. It includes a section for Skype sessions.

Teasing and bullying - From the Summer issue of 'Speaking Out'. Children who stammer may be bullied because they appear different to other children. Make sure that your child knows to always 'tell' on the bullies!

Research notice: Are you a single man with a stammer? - Paul O'Sullivan is carrying out research at City University London to explore the impact of stammering on intimate relationships. He is interested in interviewing single 18 to 30 year old men who stammer.

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