Newsgroup | Mailing lists | Social networking sites | One-to-one email/Skype | Discussion boards | Chatrooms | More

Newsgroup

The English language newsgroup on stammering is alt.support.stuttering. However the mailing lists below are used much more than the newsgroup.

Safety: Young people should not give out personal information in chat rooms, mailing lists etc. More at chatdanger.com.

Mailing lists

Emails go to everyone on the list. You can often view the emails online if you prefer, or set your email software to display them like a newsgroup.

Stuttering Chat (see article) is a large and well established community with over 3000 members from around the world. Very active mailing list.

StutteringSupport, again with a mailing list.

Other general English language lists include STUT-HLP, STUTT-L and STUTT-X. Follow the links, or for more on those and other lists see the Discussion Forums section of the Stuttering Homepage. Lists for more specific categories of people or topics are:

Parents-W is a list for parents of children and teens who stammer, and SLTs involved in treating kids who stammer.

Women living with stuttering - international community providing support for women living with stuttering. "Females who stutter deal with a unique set of issues often overlooked or not addressed by the stuttering community... This group has been created to provide a safe and secure atmosphere where females can communicate about core life decisions and issues about home, work, family and relationships by sharing and seeking advice from other women."

Covert-S - for covert people who stammer, i.e. people who hide their stammering to come across as a fluent person. The group also welcomes SLTs who would care to learn more about covert/interiorised stammering.

Speaking from the heart - Scottish stammering Yahoo group started by two BSA Scotland members

Passing Twice is a support network specifically for gay and lesbian people who stutter. See also our article on it.

IndianPWS - bringing together Indian people who stutter from around the world.

Neuro-Semantics of Stuttering - a very active group focussing on Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) tools to help overcome stammering.

DAF_FAF - new Yahoo group (June 2007) on use of delayed auditory feedback and frequency altered feedback, including software. (Electronic fluency devices...)

Stutteringselfhelp - started in 2006 for people wanting to start or join a local self-help group, and those already in a self-help group.

Cluttering - a fluency disorder sometimes confused with stammering.

Social networking websites

Stammering groups on general sites

BSA on Facebook, Bebo, Twitter and MySpace: the British Stammering Association pages on these sites. A new way to follow news, events, comments, links to articles and blogs. Also we want to encourage dialogue - please feel free to contribute and have your say.

Facebook: 'Stuttering' and 'Stammer Awareness' are amongst the other Facebook groups, and a search for 'stuttering' or 'stammering' brings up more.

Other Beebo groups include www.bebo.com/stammeringsupport

On MySpace there is groups.myspace.com/stammerawareness

Stammering-specific sites

Stuttering Can't Stop Me! - social networking site specifically for people who stammer, including forum, blog, videos, group facilities and more.

uStutter - again a social community for people who stutter, offering videos, blogs, forum, friends & more.

iStutter - a social network "with one purpose; making communication for stutterers/stammerers around the globe a bit easier". Again including including forum, blog, videos, group facilities and more.

One-to-one email lists, 'penpals', Skype partners

Normally, members' email addresses and perhaps some basic information about them are made available to list members, and members can email (or Skype) each other one-to-one.

E-friends - many people on this list are likely to be BSA members living in the UK, but you don't have to be to join.

FriendshipCenter.com - enables people who stammer share their profiles online, and search for others who stammer by age, location, gender, marital status, occupation, religion etc. Also has discussion board.

Practising with Skype - article from our Winter 2009 Speaking Out, about using Skype as a way to practise speaking and techniques, and finding contacts do do so.

Remigiusz Rozycki uses Skype to practise his speech, and talk with people who stammer around the world.

Discussion boards

Stuttering Community - a 'support forum and community for people who stutter'. Started 2009. Includes a section for Skype sessions.

Stuttering Forum - "together we can help each other"

Stuttering Can't Stop Me! and iStutter (under Social Networking above) include forums.

Irish discussion forum.

Chat rooms/sessions

More

For more, see the Discussion Forums section of the Stuttering Homepage.