From the WHP annual calendar · Friday, October 22, 2027
International Stuttering Awareness Day
Awareness day organized by the Federal Association for Stuttering & Self-Help to destigmatize speech fluency disorders.
Idea to get started
Raise awareness for a patient communication style within the team; no interrupting colleagues who stutter.
Did you know?
- Children aged 3 to 10 who stutter
- 5%
- Adolescents and adults in Germany
- 800,000
About 5% of children aged three to ten stutter, and around four in five speak fluently again by puberty. Among adolescents and adults it is about 1% – more than 800,000 people in Germany (as of 2011).
Source: Pharmazeutische Zeitung 42/2011, Wenn das Sprechen zur Qual wird
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