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Anne Blight
The Starfish Project founder, Anne has been working worldwide for and with stammerers for many years. She has successfully trained many hundreds of stammerers who now know the joy of being able to control the stammer that controlled them for so long.
Feeling frustrated, during her speech therapist training, at the lack of in-depth work for stammerers Anne got involved as a volunteer instead, for the British Stammering Association.
Anne was excited by the potential of diaphragmatic retraining (costal breathing), a technique pioneered by Lionel Logue, notably with the late King George Vl. However she became very disillusioned by the way it was introduced into the U.K. by franchised multi level marketing.
Believing strongly as she still does,that it is wrong to take financial or psychological advantage of the misfortune of other people, or as some therapies do, give false hope or promise of a non-existent cure from stammering, Anne founded The Starfish Project in 1998.
The project is non-profit making, maintaining a cost-covering basis and Anne pledged to keep the course fee at £250, the same as it was twelve years ago, for as long as we can, to ensure that we make courses available to as many people as possible. Anne also pledged, and still offers, FREE Lifetime support and no fee refresher courses.
It remains Anne Blight's dream that one day Starfish therapy will be available free to anyone that seeks it.
Anne's work was recognised in 2005 when she was awarded The Celebrities Guild of Great Britain 'Unsung Heroes Award' after being nominated by many recovering stammerers.
To read more about Anne's award click below:
The Starfish Project - David Designs 2010 -
