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Michael Palin Centre for Stammering
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Our helpline is for parents or carers, children, young people or adults who stammer, speech and language therapists, teachers, employers, GPs and other professionals.
Therapists man the helpline regularly during the week. Phone to find out when the next helpline slot is or email and a therapist will get back to you. Let us know if it is urgent.
In its early days, Richard was a trustee of the charity Association for Research into Stammering in Childhood (now Action for Stammering Children). This charity, chaired by Travers Reid, worked together with the NHS to set up the Michael Palin Centre under the leadership of Lena Rustin. The Michael Palin Centre became an internationally renowned …
Due to COVID-19 the 12th ODC has been postponed. It will now take place from the 6th-9th January 2021 with the theme ‘Challenge and Change.’ Go to http://www.dysfluencyconference.com for more information about the programme and how to register or submit an abstract.
This course is now full but you can still make a referral, for yourself or someone else, so that we can consider other ways to help. Our 2-week summer group runs once a year each July but we run individual therapy sessions all year round. You can click here to read more about our summer group and to …
Looking forward to hearing @williamlaven2 speak today about his stammer in lockdown https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_surrey. @alison_berquez from @thepalincentre will be joining the show too. Good luck guys, you’ll be great!
So proud to be a part of the wonderful @NHSuk within @WhitHealth in partnership with @ascstammering The @MichaelRosenYes poem says it all as our team were redeployed to ICU and maintained our service to children who stammer
Today marks the NHS's 72nd birthday. To celebrate 72 of our staff including some who are shielding at home came together (virtually) to jointly recorded a very special version of @MichaelRosenYes's poem "These are the Hands" which he wrote for the NHS on its 60th Birthday. #NHS72
