The Washington Post ran an article by Dr. Leana Wen about an experience she had in the emergency room treating a patient who stutters. She touched on her own experience with stuttering. After that article ran, we interviewed Dr. Wen.
Samuel L. Jackson is a powerful and prolific American actor, who has achieved both critical and commercial acclaim for his roles in films such as Jungle Fever, Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction, the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Iron Man and Marvel’s The Avengers. In 2011, Jackson became the highest-grossing actor of all time. Jackson’s films are seen and loved by millions. What those millions of people may not know, however, is that Jackson also struggles with stuttering.
Wayne Brady has been making audiences laugh for years on shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and in live comedic performances. However, it took a while before people began to laugh with him.
According to an interview with CBS News, Brady was “reluctant to even open his mouth because of a debilitating stutter” as a child growing up in Orlando.
B.B. King was born Riley B. King in 1925. Listed as number three on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all-time, King's career and accomplishments are legendary, yet his stuttering has received scant attention over the years.
The stuttering community would like to honor Gord Lane as an all-star whose openness about his stuttering during his days with the Islanders put a human face on the speech problem and gave hope to others who were struggling with stuttering.
As a young boy, I was confident in myself and enjoyed being the center of attention. I liked to have fun and laugh, and stuttering did not begin to affect me until my middle school days and worsened in my teenage years.
Bruce Willis interpreto la voz del bebe Mickey en la pelicula “Look who is talking! º (1Mira quien habla!). A Bruce Willis se le considera un actor de primera categoria. Sin embargo, pocos saben que lucho con la tartamudez durante los primeros veinte anos de su vida.
En junio de 1988, el escritor cubano Calvert Casey (muerto en 1969 a los 45 anos), fue dado a conocer en el mundo angloparlante.
Muy conocido en el mundo literario de la America Latina, sus obras completas fueron traducidas al ingles y publicadas en 1998 en un volumen titulado “Calvert Casey: The Collected Stories” (Calvert Casey: Colección de cuentos). El “Publishers Weekly" comento el hecho: “Este volumen es una buena, pero tardía, introducción a uno de los escritores mas sofisticados de la Cuba comunista.
Speech Pathology Australia’s proposal to the Australian government to provide reimbursement could be helpful in providing affordable treatment for pre-schoolers who stutter. However, I believe that the negatives outweigh the positives.
Australia’s professional association for speech pathology has recently submitted a proposal to the Australian government seeking to provide Medicare reimbursement for only a single type of stuttering treatment, creating a "one-size-fits-all" policy for treating pre-school children who stutter.
The Stuttering Foundation has been able to spread the word about stuttering thanks to local, regional, national and international publications donating space for our Public Service Ads.
The Stuttering Foundation is a global resource distributing millions of publications annually to people in 136 countries around the world. Every year we train hundreds of professionals through conferences, workshops, webinars, and symposia.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association held its November convention in Orlando, and the Stuttering Foundation was there to spread the word about stuttering to the nearly 14,000 attendees.
Lisa A. Scott, Ph.D., Vice President for Education for the Stuttering Foundation, was elected a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), which has 173,000 members. Fellowship is one of the highest forms of recognition given by ASHA of an individual’s accomplishments and is a public declaration of outstanding professional achievements.
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The second full week of May is Stuttering Awareness Week.
B.B. King was born Riley B. King in 1925. Listed as number three on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all-time, King's career and accomplishments are legendary, yet his stuttering has received scant attention over the years.
Bruce Willis interpreto la voz del bebe Mickey en la pelicula “Look who is talking! º (1Mira quien habla!). A Bruce Willis se le considera un actor de primera categoria. Sin embargo, pocos saben que lucho con la tartamudez durante los primeros veinte anos de su vida.
By Voon Pang
