Summer Reading List

Here are a few suggestions for your child's summer reading list…

Younger readers

Trouble at Recess by Jaime

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

Junior readers

Sometimes I Just Stutter by Eelco de Geus

The Girl Who Stutters by Mia J., Rebecca D., and Casey W.

Advanced reader

Self-Therapy for the Stutterer by Malcolm Fraser

Advice to Those Who Stutter by 28 therapists who stutter themselves

CELEBRITY FOCUS

Kenyon Martin

Kenyon Martin, the basketball sensation who was named to the NBA's All Star Team in 2004, joins other famous people who stutter in a new brochure. The brochure - which unfolds into a small poster - is available free of charge from The Stuttering Foundation.

The poster is intended to give children and adults who stutter inspiration as they grapple with their speech disorder.

Dave Taylor

Dave Taylor has been on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter for many years, but probably few people know all of the unique accomplishments of this former hockey great who was born on December 4, 1955, in Levack, Ontario.

John Stossel

John Stossel is one of the most recognized and articulate reporters today. However, he once considered giving up his broadcasting career because of his stuttering.

"Fear of stuttering can easily become worse than the stuttering itself," observed Stossel. "The idea that I'm on television and making speeches is still a shock to me sometimes."

John Melendez

He is a talented musician, actor, and comedian. Listen to a podcast.

James Earl Jones

Actor James Earl Jones, a Broadway, television and movie star, was well-known for his voice as Darth Vader in Star Wars and his book Voices and Silences. Jones spoke some of the most memorable lines in the history of American film, but the man known for his voice was once afflicted with a severe stutter.