Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children

The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering is a specialist centre for speech and language therapy for the treatment of stammering, located in Pine Street, central London.

Officially opened in 1993, it is a joint initiative between Whittington Health NHS Trust and the charity Action for Stammering Children (ASC).

Following his role in A Fish Called Wanda in which he portrayed Ken, a character who stammered, as well as having mentioned in his diaries that his father stammered Michael Palin agreed for the centre to be named after him.[1] Palin's continued support and involvement has helped create a high profile for the Centre.

Children, young people and adults who stammer from across the UK and internationally can be seen by the specialist speech and therapists at the Centre, either face to face or using telehealth. Assessments for children from the UK are charitably funded. Funding for therapy for UK residents may be sought from the NHS or private therapy is available.

The Centre also runs a comprehensive training programme for therapists as well as a research programme into stammering.