Blogs

November 18, 2024

Virtual Stutter: Remote Communication

This photo series highlights some of the complexities that arise when those who stutter communicate virtually.

August 27, 2024

As School Starts Back, Do Less Not More: School SLPs and Stuttering

If you are like most school-based SLPs, the start of a school year is a mixed bag of hopes, ambitions, optimism, and, of course, logistics.

May 17, 2024

"Slow down ... just take a deep breath"

There are two phrases I have always found the most frustrating (although well meaning).

May 8, 2024

Stuttering in the Military

SFA Blogger Jordan Northrup Shares His Experiences in the United States Marine Corps.

March 11, 2024

Bad Connection

If I have learned anything on my journey with stuttering it is that this journey is not linear.

May 26, 2023

The Advocacy Iceberg

If you’ve been in the stuttering world long enough, then you’ve heard the popular stuttering iceberg analogy. Advocacy is also like an iceberg.

May 12, 2023

Ask Me Anything

Blogger James Hayden takes to social media to answers questions about stuttering.

April 12, 2023

Every one of us go through periods where we feel overwhelmed by life, adverse situations, and our professional careers. Everyone experiences adversity, but why do some of us succeed? Why do some of us overcome, while others fall apart in ruin?

April 5, 2023

The Look

If you're a person who stutters, I don't need to describe "the look" to you. You know exactly what I'm talking about.

February 7, 2023

Grace in Advocacy

If you were to make a recipe for advocacy, what would your ingredients be? For me, this recipe is missing what I think is the most important ingredient of them all: grace.

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CELEBRITY FOCUS

Mel Tillis

Mel Tillis, born Lonnie Melvin Tillis, was an influential figure in country music, both as a songwriter and a performer. His journey to fame was marked by overcoming personal challenges, including a stutter that he turned into a defining part of his public persona.

Bob Love

The late Bob Love dreamt about being a great public speaker since his early days in Bastrop Louisiana, even though, as a young man, he could barely put two words together, let alone speak a full sentence.

In spite of his severe stuttering disability, Bob Love, the son of a sharecropper, rose to become a Chicago Bulls NBA superstar, whose records were eventually surpassed by Michael Jordan. Throughout his entire athletic career, Bob Love kept his stuttering a secret from the fans who adored him, thinking he could do his “talking” on the basketball court.

Carly Simon

Carly Simon began stuttering severely when she was eight years old.

Ken Venturi

As much of the nation watches the U.S. Open Golf Championship, it is impossible not to think about our late friend Ken Venturi. Ken overcame many challenges to win the Open at Congressional in 1964 and go on to become the voice of golf for more than three decades.

However, Ken faced no bigger obstacle than stuttering. Ken Venturi was a champion to those who stutter, going out of his way to share his personal experience when consulted by a colleague, friend, or child who stutters.

Frank Wolf

This Virginian congressman has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1981. The longtime supporter of the Stuttering Foundation drew national attention to childhood stuttering in 2006 when he submitted an article about Tiger Woods from the SFA newsletter to the Congressional Record. The congressman is featured in the Stuttering Foundation's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.