Bob Love Documentary

Documentary shares Bob Love's story

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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.

Fraser Wins National Award for Foundation

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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.

Michael Sheehan Achievements

Lifetime of Achievements

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 expertsalt text in
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His story was chronicled by Jennifer Reingold in Fast Company
magazine.

DVD: Sharpening Counseling Skills

Luterman's Expertise Sharpens Skills

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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.

National Recognition

National Recognition, Honors and Awards

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

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:

Oxford Hosts Conference

Oxford Hosts Conference

Event Draws Experts from Around the World

alt textBy Lisa Scott, Ph.D., The Florida State University, and Willie Botterill, MSc, Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children

What Happens In Therapy

Goals of stuttering therapy

There are usually two main goals in stuttering therapy for this age group:

When to Refer

Children with severe stuttering problems should be referred immediately. Children who have mild stuttering problems that have not shown marked improvement within six to eight weeks, depending on the child, should also be referred. These children should be given direct treatment if it is warranted, and their parents will receive support and guidance, and they will be followed carefully.

If You Are Teased

Children tease each other for many different reasons. A child who is taller than the others is sometimes teased. The same may happen to a child who is very short.

You may be teased about a big nose or giant ears. About being sick a lot or about not running fast. About having red hair or about being slow at math. About not wearing the right clothes or about not having a bicycle.

Q&A with Dr. Drayna

Dennis Drayna, Ph.D., researcher for the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, answers questions from students at Glendale American Elementary School.

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