They appeared on a one-off ITV programme, School for Stammerers, one of the most agonising yet uplifting you would ever see. It followed the emotional journey of the six sufferers as they underwent a four-day speech therapy course, known as the McGuire programme. A former student of the McGuire programme, David Conley, told a local newspaper that he developed his stammer around the age of five. I would walk past ringing phones.”What changed everything was the McGuire programme, which he attended in Dundee, Scotland. Frozen meat was all there was.

Source: Daily Nation January 20, 2018 19:07 UTC