Bird is the word for the Trust in new SuperPenguin stammering app project

We’re joining forces with stammering experts SuperPenguin, Leeds Beckett University and two other NHS organisations to develop an innovative app and web platform to support children who stammer.

As part of the project, our Trust and partners will work together on SuperPenguin, an app and web dashboard, to introduce new interactive tools for parents, carers and speech and language therapists (SLTs).

The three-year project has received £1.5m funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

SuperPenguin aims to build confidence in children who stammer, lower anxiety and worry for children and parents, and reduce NHS waiting times for speech and language therapy services.

Around eight per cent of children have a stammer, with at least one per cent continuing to stammer as an adult. (source: STAMMA.org)

Nicola Maddy, speech and language therapist at our Trust, said: “I’m excited and looking forward to using SuperPenguin with the families of children and young people who stammer and hope that the innovative approach will enhance the delivery of care within stammering therapy in our Trust. I hope it will align with the stammering affirming therapy we offer and sow important seeds that stammering is a beautiful and valuable way of speaking that doesn’t need to be fixed.”