Stammer library
16 November 2004
The first audio library of examples of stammered speech has been established by Professor Peter Howell and Stephen Davis at University College London, thanks to a grant from the Wellcome Trust.
An online database of 150 recordings made over a ten-year period will be freely available to researchers, helping them to identify traits of stammered speech and the most effective treatments. More than 100 000 children in the UK stammer, although 80 per cent recover fluency during school years.
