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The new treatment rooms were official opened by Gerda Wilson on
the 19th May 2002. This gives a more comfortable and adaptable
environment to work in. With
rooms on the ground floor making it easier for disabled people. A
two-way
mirror makes
it more adaptable
for
the purposes of
teaching and training. It
will also increase the usage
of the work carried
out at
the Apple House.
Andrew Barnes (Chairman), David Ward, Gerda
Wilson, Polly Mitchell and Christen Charles.
If you pay tax, Gift Aid is a scheme by which you can
give a sum of money to a charity (subscriptions) and the charity can
reclaim from the Inland Revenue basic rate tax on your gift. For example
if y ou give £10 using gift aid in the tax year 2000/01, that gift is
worth £12.82 to the charity. Any member who wish
to join the scheme
please email your name and address and a form or card will be sent to you.
Gift Aid
Form Request For
further information concerning "Gift Aid" you can download a
PDF file from the Inland Revenue by clicking on the Inland Revenue
image.
If you wish you can download
the Stammer Trust Form by clicking on the apple, fill it in and sign.
Then send it to any committee member. It is as quick and easy as that.
Download a Gift
Aid form.
The Apple House is running an intensive group fluency program. The
course is free under the NHS, and members and non-members of the Stammer
Trust are very welcome to apply for a place.
The course combines both speech modification and fluency
modification approaches, focusing on reducing the amount of stammering,
and regaining control over both the moments of stammered speech, and,
more generally, the process of speaking. We will also spend time
confronting issues such as avoidance, and negative attitudes and
feelings toward speaking. The degree to which various techniques are
used varies from person to person, so although there is a group format,
goals of the course are somewhat individualised to the needs of each
person. However, one common goal of the course is to ensure that, during
the 7 days, all attendees have extended opportunities to carry-over
progress into more challenging every day speaking situations away from
the Apple House.
If you feel you might be interested in attending, or at least would like
to know more about the course, please either email me
llswadav@reading.ac.uk
or write or phone me at the Apple House (details below).
There will be a 1 day group
follow-up session, available to anyone who has had therapy in the recent
or distant past and would like a top-up session. It will be held on
Saturday, 26th April 10-4. at the Apple House. This will be an
opportunity to review any issues with fluency and to look at ways of
controlling both aspects of speech and feelings towards speaking. If
people plan on coming, or would like more details, please contact David
by phone (01865 246845) or email (d.ward@reading.ac.uk).
The next seven-day intensive
group will run in 3 months (June 23rd-29th). More details available from
David.
   
Members willing
to serve on the Stammer Trust Committee are always welcome.
Any member of the Trust who wishes to join the committee please fill in
the Request Form.
The Apple House fun day
will be
held on.....
Do come along join the fun and
support the Trust.
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