Every year on 22 October I make sure I show my support for International Stammering Awareness Day (ISAD). So, this year when people ask me why I am wearing a green ribbon, I will be able to tell them that I have an interiorised stammer and that it is as much part of who I am as my nose and my smile. It is so important that we all help raise awareness about the challenges that 1 per cent of the population encounter daily – that’s almost 750,000 people in the UK who have a stammer!
I am the vice-president of Action for Stammering Children (ASC), a charity that supports children and young people to get speech and language therapy for their stammer. Stammering is a communication issue affecting far more people than many realise. In fact, Ed Sheeran and Emily Blunt were two of 150,000 children in the UK who stammer and – like me – continue to stammer in adulthood.
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