International Stuttering Awareness Day 2016



Every year International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD) is marked on October 22. It is a day when people who stutter all over the world participate in events and activities that raise awareness about stuttering and educate the non-stuttering public and raise awareness of an often difference.
The awareness day is an alliance between speech-language professionals and consumers. The awareness day is designed to highlight the effect that stuttering has on the lives of individuals. The colour of the day is sea-green. People who stammer are encouraged to adorn themselves with the colour sea green to integrate the traditional ‘peace’ of the colour blue and ‘liberation’ of the colour green. 


 
Photo: British Stammering Association

In my personal experience of having a stammer tells me everything about attitudes nationwide, a day like this is still necessary. Even though few people are consciously prejudiced against stammerers even fewer know about what it is like to actually have a stammer.
On this International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD), my humble request to non-stammering people is “Never, ever finish a stammerers sentence. You think you are doing him a favour, but you are not. You are just telling them you think their stammer is a problem, and that they are wasting your time. The stammerer would like you help implementing whatever technique they use to control their speech by reminding them to use it.
 
 
        Photo: British Stammering Association 

                                                                                            

When people want to congratulate a minority they sometimes say it has found its voice. Stammerers already have a voice, and 22 October is a reminder to everyone else to listen to it.

 
Photo: British Stammering Association 
                                                                      



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