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The Michael Palin Centre
The Michael Palin Centre offers specialist assessment and therapy
service in stammering.
The Background
The specialist service has been developing over three decades. Early
in the 1970s, Lena Rustin, supported by speech therapists from across
London, set up annual intensive group therapy courses for teenagers
who stammered. New courses were soon developed for younger children
and their parents, and were so successful that they became a hallmark
of Lena's work in the 70s and 80s.
By the early 1980s, a national counsultation service had been set
up and therapists from all over the country brought parents with their
stammering children for advice and guidance.
A charity, The Association for Research into Stammering in Childhood
(ARSC) was established in 1991, and the Michael Palin Centre, a joint
venture between ARSC and the Camden and Islington Community Health
NHS Trust, was opened in 1993, with tremendous publicity.
The service has grown from one part-time therapist to eleven.
Currently our five main aims are to:
- offer a free consultation service
- provide therapy and develop new approaches
- extend our research programme
- provide training and education
- provide a specialist advisory service to speech and language
therapists and other professionals
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"Thanks
for all the time effort and care you put into Liam. It has certainly
paid off. We couldn't stop him talking now, even if we wanted to..."
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