Penguin
Penguin is an app for parents and carers of children who stammer. It gives you the tools to feel more confident about supporting your child and yourself.
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Why Penguin?
We know that parents and carers can worry when a child starts stammering. Penguin gives you immediate support, helping you to navigate the early stages with confidence. Our mission is to keep children communicating confidently and to empower you to make small changes that have a big impact.
Your Journey
Penguin provides guidance and support through a 10-day in-app course that you can work through in your own time. We equip you with the essential knowledge you need to feel secure and confident in your ability to help support your child, and yourself.
Learning
With Penguin you’ll learn key ways to support your child and yourself. Short videos explain how to create space for talking about stammering, encouraging confident communication, and ways to help struggle or anxiety.
Activities
Penguin gives you flexible ideas so that you can make changes that work best for you and your family. Learn at your own pace and revisit any content to refresh your memory.
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Developed for families
Penguin has been developed with the input of Action for Stammering Children, NHS Speech Therapists, people who stammer, and plenty of parents and caregivers.
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Guided by experts
Penguin gives you flexible ideas so that you can make changes that work best for you and your family. Learn at yoPenguin content is developed by experts and is based on evidence based practices that have been proven to help support children who stammer and their families.ur own pace and revisit any content to refresh your memory.
Designed for busy lives
We know how busy life gets, particularly with young children around. Penguin is designed to fit into busy schedules so even with a hectic schedule you can still feel the benefits.
FAQ.
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What is Penguin?
Penguin is a new mobile app designed to support parents and carers of children who stammer.
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Why has Penguin been developed?
Research shows that many parents or carers feel worried when a child begins to stammer and are not sure how to help. Some common problems can make this more difficult. For example:
- Confusing advice online
- Difficulties accessing support via public healthcare systems
- The high cost of private speech therapy services
We made Penguin with these problems in mind. The Penguin app is not a replacement for in-person speech therapy, but it could help parents learn how to support their children during this early stage. Parents don’t cause stammering and they are the best placed people to help their child enjoy talking.
- Confusing advice online
- Difficulties accessing support via public healthcare systems
- The high cost of private speech therapy services
We made Penguin with these problems in mind. The Penguin app is not a replacement for in-person speech therapy, but it could help parents learn how to support their children during this early stage. Parents don’t cause stammering and they are the best placed people to help their child enjoy talking.
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What does Penguin aim to do?
There's no one-practice-fits-all approach. To ingrain new habits, it's important to practice them regularly so we recommend doing a reading exercise each morning and freestyle recordings throughout your day. BeneTalk will track your activity and give you statistics so that you can keep an eye on your progress. If you have learnt a speech technique in speech therapy, you can use the app to keep on top of your daily practice and work towards your goals.
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Who makes Penguin?
Penguin is made by a UK-based company called BeneTalk. We are a team of people who stammer, speech therapists, researchers, and engineers. BeneTalk was founded by Jordi Fernandez, a person who stammers. The company aims to improve support for the stammering community through technology.
Our mission has been recognised by Innovate UK and we have collaborated with researchers and speech therapists at the University of Reading. When developing Penguin, we spoke to different groups of people who we think may find the app useful. This included speech and language therapists, parents of children who stammer, and the charities STAMMA and Action for Stammering Children.
Our mission has been recognised by Innovate UK and we have collaborated with researchers and speech therapists at the University of Reading. When developing Penguin, we spoke to different groups of people who we think may find the app useful. This included speech and language therapists, parents of children who stammer, and the charities STAMMA and Action for Stammering Children.