Updated November 27, 2011

The BC Ministry of Health - Fred Gingell Memorial Stuttering Treatment Support Program

 

The BC Ministry of Health now has funds available to help 15 British Columbia residents each year. The funding is for up to 75% of the cost of a three-week intensive program for people who stutter and are 19 years of age or older.

For information contact:

Dr. Linda Rammage

Director, Provincial Voice Care Resource Program

G & L Diamond Health Care Centre

Vancouver General Hospital

4th Floor, 2775 Laurel Street, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9

Tel: (604) 875-4204 fax: (604) 875-5382

e-mail: lira@unixg.ubc.ca

 

Fred Gingell, was a person who stuttered and was a member of the Provincial legislature for several decades, passed away in 1999. He was instrumental in helping BCAPS establish this yearly support program in 1996. BCAPS felt it would be a fitting memorial and tribute to a man who was an inspiration, mentor and friend, to have the Ministry of Health name their treatment support program after him.

BCAPS FUNDING

 

BCAPS has limited funds available to those with a demonstrated need to obtain stuttering therapy and who are in need of financial assistance to attend speech therapy clinics in British Columbia, operated by qualified speech language pathologists.

 

Funding Application Form

 

To print BCAPS Funding Application Form, just follow these instructions: Click here to get a two page funding application form. When you view the application form on your monitor you can then choose the print command and your printer will print the two page form for you. You can also download the pdf file of the application form to your desktop, view it and print it anytime you want to.

 

 

Disability Tax Credit for people who stutter

 

Revenue Canada has recognized stuttering as a disability entitling people to apply for a tax credit of $4,233.00 (1997). To apply for the Disability Tax Credit get form T2201 from your nearest Revenue Canada Taxation Office. Or if you have Acrobat Reader (free software from Adobe) you can download a pdf file for Disability Tax Credit Form T2201, from the Revenue Canada site, view it on your monitor and print it out on your laser printer. The Revenue Canada site address is www.rc.gc.ca and the page address for Form T2201 is http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/t2201eq/README.html - Revenue Canada Form T2201

Employment Issues Related to Stuttering

 

Stuttering falls under the category of "dissfluency" and is now a recognized disability within the rules and regulations or the BC Ministry of Skills, Training and Labour, a division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services. Among other things, this entitles people who stutter, access at no charge to an Employment Counselor specializing in people with disabilities, to assist in job search. Further, when applying for positions in the Provincial Government, people who stutter fall under BC Employment Equity legislation. For more information contact: 604-831-6344

 

For Incidences/Problems with discrimination in the work place related to stuttering contact:

The BC Employment Standards Office

201 - 865 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC

(604) 775-1974

 

Note: The Federal Employment Insurance department and the BC Ministry of Social Services, are two other possible sources of funding for people who stutter. Contact those offices for more information.