Runners raise vital funds for Hackney arts school hackneygazette.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hackneygazette.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘Lockdown has made my stammer worse’
When your speech is something you need to warm up on a daily basis, being stuck at home with minimal human contact becomes a problem
16 March 2021 • 1:40pm
William Laven has used lockdown to practise on his stammer with an exercise routine that includes reading passages of text out loud
Even before
I Can’t Say My Name, the BBC One documentary, was broadcast this week, stammering was attracting some recognition. This was, in part, due to the election of Joe Biden to the role of President of the United States: the 78-year-old has been open about the stammer he’s had since boyhood and which manifested in a number of debates.