Stuttering Foundation spokesman and conservationist Alan Rabinowitz, actress Glenn Close, and former Assistant Secretary of State Claudia McMurray were on hand for the annual Panthera Conservation Advisory Committee reception in honor of Carlos Manuel Rodriquez of Costa Rica whose visionary policies helped secure crucial habitat for jaguars.
Stuttering Foundation President Jane Fraser was the only American at a reception in honor of the British Stammering Association at 10 Downing Street on Dec. 1.
This excerpt is from the book Effective Counseling in Stuttering Therapy
Dr. Robert Wallace's syndicated column, "TWEEN 12 & 20," which reaches millions of readers, has referred to The Stuttering Foundation twice during the past month.
For the 14th year, the Stuttering Foundation recognizes the importance of the media in raising awareness about stuttering and what can be done to help.
NBA All-Star Bob Love will lead the 2007 campaign for NationalStuttering Awareness Week, May 14-20.
Love knows first-hand the experiences of someone who stutters. Hehas overcome considerablefrustrations and setbacks since his gloryyears with the Chicago Bulls.
Malcolm Fraser, founder
of the Stuttering Foundation.
By Don Lineback
Furman University
and SFA Board Member
Reviewed by John M. Williams
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Malcolm Hough Fraser
1903-1994
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The book Self-Therapy for the Stutterer by Malcolm Fraser continues to help people around the world.
A dismaying number of speech-language pathologists have little training in fluency disorders, according to a recent survey of 255 school speech-language pathologists from 16 counties in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Virginia. The survey comprised of 49 questions was conducted by Glen Tellis, Ph.D., and his colleagues at College Misericordia, Dallas, Pa.
While the SFA's Web site list of Famous People Who Stutter includes many high-profile names, we like to think that every person who stutters is unique in their own right.
Brain Research
B.B. King
Like stuttering, cluttering is a fluency disorder, but the two disorders are not the same. Cluttering involves excessive breaks in the normal flow of speech that seem to result from disorganized speech planning, talking too fast or in spurts, or simply being unsure of what one wants to say. By contrast, the person who stutters typically knows exactly what he or she wants to say but is temporarily unable to say it. To make matters even more confusing, since cluttering is not well known, many who clutter are described by themselves or others as "stuttering." Also, and equally confusing, cluttering often occurs along with stuttering.
The teasing that hurts all children is doubly hurtful to those who stutter.
Teachers can help by addressing both teasing and stuttering at the beginning of the school year following expert advice in a new brochure published by the Stuttering Foundation.
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