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UK sources of information and / or support
British Stammering Association
Offers information and advice to all stammerers, be they children, teenagers, or adults, plus information about the British Stammering Association (BSA) and its activities.
Association For Research Into Stammering In Childhood
ARSC is a charity which was set up to support the specialist speech and language therapy service which is offered at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children in London.
The Stammer Trust
Aims to support the treatment of stammering, and research of stammering, within the United Kingdom.
Dominic Barker Trust
The Dominic Barker Trust, a charity called Dom's Fund, has been set up for research into stammering.
National Special Interest Group Disorders of Fluency
A group of UK Speech & Language Therapists interested in sharing information about fluency disorders. The group is primarily for Speech & Language Therapists but their website has some useful information for the general public.
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.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.
- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.
- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.