Self Help Groups

Action for Dysphasic Adults
Speakability is the national charity that supports and empowers people with aphasia to overcome the barriers they face by: supporting people with aphasia and their carers through its information service, national network of Self-Help Groups and programme of activities influencing...
Afasic
Afasic was founded in 1968 as a parent-led organisation to help children and young people with speech and language impairments and their families. We provide information and training for parents – and professionals – and produce a range of publications. Members meet in local groups in many areas of...
Aidis Trust
The Aidis Trust specialises in assistive computer technology for the disabled. Our aim is to help people, regardless of their disability, to gain the most from today’s computer technology. We are an independent charity with over 35 years of experience working with assistive computer technology....
Association for Research into Stammering in Childhood
The Association for Research into Stammering in Childhood (ARSC) is committed to funding scientific research into the complex causes of stammering in, and the most effective treatments for, children and young adults. ARSC was founded in 1991 by the late Dr Lena Rustin, an internationally...
Association for Stammerers
Advice and information about speech therapy and self-help groups for stammerers. Open meetings, telephone links, and pen-pals network.
British Stammering Association
The British Stammering Association (BSA) is a national registered charity. People who stammer, their parents, relatives and friends, speech and language therapists and other professionals as well as interested individuals from all over the UK are welcome as members. BSA receives over 3,000...
City Dysphasic Group
Dominic Barker Trust
The Dominic Barker Trust, a charity called Dom's Fund, has been set up for research into stammering. The fund is in memory of a young man for whom the burden of stammering was so great that he took his own life. The Dominic Barker Trust fund aims to: Fund research into stammering. Raise...
Dyscover
Dyscover provides support, encouragement and hope to people with dysphasia (mainly in the vicinity of Surrey). The charity helps people to adjust to living with dysphasia on a long term basis. Dyscover runs a programme of courses and activities which enable people to communicate to the best of...
Fluency Trust
The Fluency Trust aims to help people who stammer to communicate confidently by providing specialist speech and language therapy to enable people who stammer to achieve their full potential. The Trust works in conjunction with Swindon Primary Care Trust and provides the following: Residential...