Free E-Books

You can read and download these books for free:

Advice to Those Who Stutter by 28 therapists who stutter themselves.

Trouble at Recess by Jamie

Sometimes I Just Stutter by Eelco de Geus

Self-Therapy for the Stutterer by Malcolm Fraser

The Child Who Stutters: To the Pediatrician by Barry Guitar, Ph.D., and Edward G. Conture, Ph.D.

Stuttering: Straight Talk for Teachers

Stuttering: Its Nature and Management by Courtney Stromsta, Ph.D.

My Very Own: I can Do It Storybook! Starring Me by Julie Raynor

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CELEBRITY FOCUS

Nicholas Brendon

Many people take the spoken word for granted but 3 million Americans don't because they struggle daily with stuttering.

As "Xander" in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, actor Nicholas Brendon won celebrity status. As Chair of National Stuttering Awareness Week, his starring presence moves the awareness campaign for those who stutter into high gear.

Alan Rabinowitz

Alan Rabinowitz, Ph.D., is an explorer, wildlife conservationist, and author. He established the Hukawng Valley Tiger Reserve in northern Myanmar, which is about the size of the state of Vermont.

His love for animals began when he was very young.

Lewis Carroll

The recent Disney version of Lewis Carroll’s classic, Alice in Wonderland, garnered a great deal of media hype. Even though the mainstream media has not made mention that Carroll was a person who stuttered, his family history gives credence to the discovery of the genetic link to stuttering. Carroll was born to parents who were first cousins; almost all of their eleven children, three girls and seven boys, struggled with stuttering past childhood.

John Melendez

He is a talented musician, actor, and comedian. Melendez is pictured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure. Listen to a podcast.

King George

In November 2010, worldwide movie audiences were presented with a most interesting and unusual movie release with The King’s Speech, starring Colin Firth as King George VI and Helena Bonham Carter as his wife Elizabeth.

Unfortunately, history may have forgotten the courageous and inspiring story of Prince Albert who stuttered badly and never dreamed that he would ever be king when his older brother, King Edward VIII, abruptly abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.