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Bob Love has 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.
Introduction
Ponjit Jithavech has translated three of the Stuttering Foundation's flyers.
With 1.4 million nonprofits in this country to choose from, the NonProfit Times named Jane Fraser, the president of the Stuttering Foundation, Executive of the Year for 2007.
An interview with Travis Kruck
(202) 686-4494
info@stutteringhelp.org
Kids who stutter have a lot to say, and friends can show them how in Stuttering: For Kids By Kids, a new DVD starring real kids who stutter.
New help for stuttering: Complex disorder devastating for preschoolers and parents.
A Special Lifetime Achievement Media Award goes to public
relations executive Michael Sheehan, who dealt effectively with his
stuttering and became one of the best-known communications experts
in
the country.
His story was chronicled by Jennifer Reingold in Fast Company
magazine.
By Diane Parris, M.S.
Boston University
“In order to be a growing professional, we need to be always on the fringe of our incompetency,” that is to say we always need to be pushing ourselves to our limits of competence in order to learn new skills at higher levels.
By Lisa Scott, Ph.D.,
Florida State University
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD FROM ASHA
In 1978, the then 68,000-member American Speech-Language-Hearing Association gave its highest award, the Distinguished Service Award, to the Stuttering Foundation of America for its 'dedication and effective contributions to the field of speech pathology.'
NCCD AWARD
Neurogenic stuttering is a type of fluency disorder in which a person has difficulty in producing speech in a normal, smooth fashion. Individuals with fluency disorders may have speech that sounds fragmented or halting, with frequent interruptions and difficulty producing words without effort or struggle. Neurogenic stuttering typically appears following some sort of injury or disease to the central nervous system i.e. the brain and spinal cord, including cortex, subcortex, cerebellar, and even the neural pathway regions. These injuries or diseases include:
By Lisa Scott, Ph.D., The Florida State University, and Willie Botterill, MSc, Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children
The most important thing to do when a child is stuttering is be a good communicator yourself.
Note: These questions are listed in order of the seriousness of the problem. If a parent answers 'yes' to any question other than number 1, it suggests the possibility of stuttering rather than normal disfluency.
Most don't buy; fewer than
half of owners happy six months later
Over the past year, increased media attention has focused on auditory feedback devices for the treatment of stuttering, with dramatic testimonials on nationally televised programs including Oprah and Good Morning America.
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.
Written by Rosalee Shenker, Ph.D., Montreal Fluency Centre
This material was compiled by Luc De Nil, Ph.D., Chair of the Graduate Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, and by Paul Sandor, M.D., Director of the Tourette's Syndrome Clinic, University Health Network.
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