Welcome to the Australian McGuire Programme Website

The McGuire Programme is an international programme run by recovering/recovered stutterers. The programme has been in existence for ten years and continues to evolve to provide great results for people who stutter.

The programme is primarily for people who stutter 16 years old and above, although young people over the age of 14 will be considered on a case by case basis.

The programme is unique in that we believe that stuttering is not a speech problem but rather a problem with the experience of communicating to others. It is an issue of fear and social anxiety in certain speaking situations or with specific people.

Most of our new students have tried conventional speech pathology services for years without satisfactory results and turn to the McGuire Programme with outstanding results.

Our graduates have great success stories with many winning public speaking competitions at the club, area and state level against “fluent” speakers. Many graduates change their jobs, go to University, get married, become marriage celebrants to mention a few. We even have graduates teaching TAFE college students how to speak in public!

The following are extracts from recent emails sent by graduates to the international McGuire email list:

“I really love the freedom this program has given me!! Never before the program would I have looked forward to moving to a new area, meeting new people, and talking so much. I now enjoy and look forward to meeting new people. At a barbecue yesterday, I even approached people I didn't know just to introduce myself. Wow, I would have never done that before the program, and I mean never!”

“The great thing about our support network is it's there to be used by ALL on the programme, whether you're a new student, a course instructor, an old graduate, or the founder of the programme himself.”

“Just thought I'd let you know about a pretty amazing experience I had with my speech last week. I've been on a personal development programme at work for the past 18 months. I've been in a group of 10, from different departments across the company. Last week, it culminated in each of us having to do a 20 minute project presentation, in front of the rest of the group and our managers. Pre-McGuire, as I'm sure you can appreciate, I would have been absolutely dreading this! Could anything have been worse for a stutterer?! Sleepless nights, not eating etc etc etc. As I'm now a recovering stammerer, I experienced none of the aforementioned fears. And I found myself actually looking forward to standing up in front of people and speaking. I went on to deliver a fluent presentation and bearing in mind this was the first time we'd been back together as a group since my course, I was overwhelmed by the positive feedback! Comments such as 'blown away', 'forgot you even had a stammer', 'amazing', 'unbelievable' left me feeling extremely proud and buzzing, and really hit home to me the power of the technique that we are all using to control our speech.”

The programme offers a holistic approach to the problem and empowers graduates to treat their recovery as a sport rather than being in the “victim” role. The McGuire Programme is playing to win rather than playing not to lose!

If your past efforts to overcome your stuttering have not achieved the desired results, and your stuttering is holding you back from becoming the person you can be in your relationships and career, I encourage you to invest in your future by attending a 4-day course and joining the McGuire Programme.

To request a free information kit including introductory DVD please free call on 1300 134 543 or email to stuttering@internode.on.net. You can also register online from this website.

Geoff Johnston
Regional Director