For a few weeks, as from January 7th, 2011, stammering will have louder voice, in our cinemas and, hopefully, in many every day conversations - because that’s the day on which The King’s Speech launches in the UK. King George VI was the last really high profile stammerer in the UK, and he died in 1952. A very long time ago… So it is not widely known that stammering/stuttering is a symptom of a condition in which the brain’s neural circuits for speech have not wired normally. In February, 2010, researchers announced that three genes had been identified as a source of stammering/stuttering. If you would like to support the work of the British Stammering Association, a charity, please go to www.stammering.org To support the Stuttering Foundation of America, please go to www.stutteringhelp.org To support other stammering associations, please go to the International Stuttering Association site at www.stutterisa.org where there is list of national associations.
