British Stammering Association
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| Abbreviation | BSA |
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| Motto | Our vision: A world that understands stammering |
| Formation | 1978 |
| Legal status | Registered charity, and company limited by guarantee |
| Purpose | People who stammer |
| Headquarters | London |
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Region served
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United Kingdom |
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Chief Executive
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Norbert Lieckfeldt |
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Main organ
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Speaking Out |
| Affiliations | European League of Stuttering Associations |
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Budget
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£219,335 |
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Staff
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6 (Full-time equivalent 4) |
| Website | www |
The British Stammering Association (BSA), a charity since 1978, is a national membership organisation in the United Kingdom for adults and children who stammer, their friends and families, speech and language therapists and other professionals. Based in London, it is run by people who stammer. BSA promotes awareness of stammering, offers advice, information and support to all whose lives are affected by stammering, initiates and supports research into stammering and identifies and promotes effective therapies. It describes stammering as a neurological issue and estimates that about 700,000 people in the UK have a stammer.
The Association's chief executive is Norbert Lieckfeldt and the Chair is Tim Fell.
In September 2010, the Association announced that Ed Balls, who was then a Labour MP and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, had become a patron of the Association. BSA chief executive Norbert Lieckfeldt paid tribute to him for having been very public in his declaration that he too knows what it's like to stammer and has at times struggled with his speech.
David Mitchell, author of Black Swan Green, a novel about a 13-year-old boy who has a stammer, is also a patron of the Association. BSA's other patrons are Sir Andrew Bowden MBE, Dame Margaret Drabble DBE,John McAllion,Nicholas Parsons LL.D. OBE, Arwel Richards and Baroness Whitaker.
The British Stammering Association is a member of the European League of Stuttering Associations and the International Stuttering Association. At its World Congress in Brazil, the International Fluency Association awarded the IFA Consumer Award of Distinction 2009 to the British Stammering Association.
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