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Documentary ‘Stop My Stutter’ with Gareth Gates

Filmed at the end of 2011, on a course in Birmingham, Gareth teaches 5 young people the McGuire technique in an attempt to help them take control of their stutter. This is a debilitating condition that affects people from all walks of life, young and old. Watch Gareth teach them in a controlled environment, take them out on the streets to test what they have learned and see the results of this intensive 4 day course. Gareth also talks about how this condition has shaped his life and made him who he is today.

Documentary 'The Stuttering School'

Julian Burgess and Danielle Finch have severe stammers. Both have stammered since they were very young and this has affected every aspect of their lives. Both are desperate to rid themselves of their debilitating condition. Read more > >

Successfully Eindhoven course March 2012

Video report by the Eindhoven Dagblad during the last day of the course

A fresh wind is blowing through stuttering The Netherlands! This air comes from the powerful lungs of about forty young adult stutterers came to Eindhoven from 7 to 10 March 2012 to work on their stuttering. Among them were six new students, each with its own background and identity. Besides the new students there were also many returning former students and coaches from The Netherlands and abroad countries. Read more > >

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	Testimonial Tim Bicanic
	I can be short and brief about the programme: it works. Not just for me, but for many people. Let me explain why: simply because it gives you so much more than just control over your stammer. It enables you to become an eloquent speaker, instead of just a fluent speaker. And all of this not with the help of a magical pill, or by learning new tricks, but by working hard with a positive attitude. Read more >>

	Testimonial Maria van der Merwe
	I’m Maria van der Merwe, born in 1993, South Africa. When I was very little, I started to mimick my brother’s way of speaking, who also stammers, without knowing what the consequences would be. In primary school I didn’t have any problems, but when I was 15 my family and I moved to Holland, and my stammer developed into a severe speech impediment. The foreign language, foreign people and environment triggered my stammering to escalate, and before I was aware of it, my speech impediment was destructing my life. Read more >>

	Testimonial Dave Mannaert
	My name is Dave Mannaert. I am a coach for the Dutch region. I recall starting to stammer when I was around 4 years old. All of a sudden I returned home from school stammering. Apparently going to school triggered something in me. Of course like many of us, I’ve spent many years following speech therapy. In the following years I also attended numerous courses, which all helped me but not in the long term. Read more >>

	Testimonial Fintan van Berkel
	I do not exaggerate when I say the McGuire Programme has changed my life for good! Of course, firstly my speech has improved a lot. As a programme participant my speech is more controlled and I have less fear of speaking. In the past I could not imagine to say words preceded by vowels. Nowadays I know better…! Read more >>

Testimonial Frank Loomans

My name is Frank Loomans. From early 2012, I have taken on the job of Regional Director at the McGuire Programme in the Netherlands. I organize the McGuire courses and everything that comes along with that.

I have been stammering since elementary school. Soon I discovered that if I kept my mouth shut and avoided difficult speaking situations and words, I could avoid the stammering.Read more >>

Testimonial Lenny Verstrate

Nach jahrelanger Logopädie und Stottertherapie konnte ich nicht hoffen jemals noch Vertrauen in mein Sprechen zu bekommen. Ich hatte mich schon mit einem Leben lang Stottern, Wörter vermeiden und Situationen aus dem Wege gehen abgefunden.

Ende 2010 las ich zum ersten Mal vom McGuire Programm in einem Zeitungsartikel. Mein Interesse wurde geweckt, weil es ein Programm im Englischen war. Read more >>

	Testimonial Dennis Tieke
	I decided to sign up for a McGuire course after a phone call with a McGuire coach. What I liked a lot was the enthusiastic drive and also soberness of it all. I was also attracted by the idea that the programme is run only by people who stutter themselves and in this way is run entirely by their own experiences. Read more >>

	Testimonial Maarten aan den Boom
	During my first McGuire course I learned a new way of speaking which gave me control over my speech. I joined the Programme because the techniques were all about speaking in basically every situation, without using embarrassing tools like arm swinging or a very obvious way of speaking, which I used before. Read more >>