Young people in Bangladesh are increasingly joining the country’s largely untapped tourism sector on completion of the tertiary-level education instead of running after government and private jobs.
thing around, well, i ve got this big secret, and it s the shame thing can build into that too if we re not careful. so, primary message, it s ok to acknowledge it. you can call it a stammer. it s not going to cause a problem for the child if you start talking about it. it s a word i really struggle to say, so we re going to be solving linear. pupils: ..equations. abed ahmed was told his stammer meant teaching wasn t for him. now, head of maths at a school in birmingham, he uses his experience to help others. what i focus mainly on is confidence first. that s the most important thing. the most important thing is not trying to speak fluently. i think we measure success by being f fluent in so manyjobs. unfortunately, for people like me and 1% of the world, that can t be. ..done. so, i teach some techniques that i ve learnt in my life, so things like breathing techniques, just to calm and relax them a bit more. so, i t tackle a lot of things with humour as well, and i tell the kids as
them learn to cope with their speech. so, parents are really worried about saying, oh, you know, i can see that that was hard for you to say, wasn t it? they re really worried about drawing their child s attention to it. but we have a problem that can start because of that, that it becomes something that nobody talks about, so it becomes a taboo. and we have teenagers who come to the centre and say, i ve never spoken to my parents about my stammer because they didn t mention it and neither did i. and that becomes a whole big thing around, well, i ve got this big secret, and it s the shame thing can build into that, too, if we re not careful. so, primary message, it s ok to acknowledge it. you can call it a stammer. it s not going to cause a problem for the child if you start talking about it. it s a word i really struggle to say, so we re going to be solving linear. pupils: ..equations. abed ahmed was told his stammer meant teaching wasn t for him.