Does a stammer count as a disability?
• The Equality Act (and the DDA) defines a disability as a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on one’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. • It seems clear that a stammer is a ‘physical or mental impairment’ (see here for more detail). One does not have to decide whether it is ‘physical’ or ‘mental’, but a tribunal in Blacker considered a ‘speech impediment’ to be a ‘physical’ impairment. It would be prudent to plead both alternatives. • Broadly, long-term means at least twelve months. • On this basis, a stammer is covered in practice if it has a substantial adverse effect on one’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. This is not a difficult test to meet. • This website focuses on the common kind of stammering which starts in early childhood. Much less common is Stammering which starts in adulthood (link to BSA website), and that will give rise to further legal issues, including whether the effect has lasted o
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