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Ask the Stuttering Foundation

Looking for Answers? Ask the Stuttering Foundation!

The Stuttering Foundation receives dozens of inquiries daily by telephone, email, and generated on our website.

Evaluating Persistence: A Closer Look

Excerpts from Stuttering: Foundations and Clinical Applications, Third Edition, by Dr. Ehud Yairi and Dr. Carol H. Seery.

Updated Research Data on Preschool Children

The Stuttering Foundation has kept accurate data on the calls it has received to date from concerned parents or family members of 18,260 preschool children who are reported to be stuttering.

Books to Talk About

Here are four books you might consider for your bookshelf.

An Adventure

Two Penguins and a Treasure to Be Discovered is an adventure where penguins Jorge and Tito introduce the notions needed to stimulate fluency in young children.

A Year of Celebrating our 75th Anniversary

It’s our 75^th year of working to make a difference for those who stutter!

Throughout the year, we are planning activities, publications, events and content to mark the occasion—and we will to create links to each from this landing page. Please check back throughout the year!

The Perfect Stutter

Author Paul H. Brocklehurst reveals how stuttering throws light on the human condition. He integrates lessons from his personal, often painful, experiences with spiritual and medical theory to gain control over stuttering.

Info Sent to Pediatricians Nationwide

Now in its 6th edition, The Child Who Stutters: To the Pediatrician is hot off the press and has been sent to every pediatrician in the country by the Stuttering Foundation.

New Year, New Opportunities!

Good News for Employers: According to speech experts, people who stutter, tend to show significantly above average care and perseverance in completing their workplace responsibilities.

New Year, New Opportunities!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MEMPHIS, TENN. (Jan. 3, 2022) — Good News for Employers: According to speech experts, people who stutter, tend to show significantly above average care and perseverance in completing their workplace responsibilities.

Do You Stutter: A Guide for Teens

Now available in a new printing, the Stuttering Foundation’s Do You Stutter: A Guide For Teens explains to teenagers that, with the right approach, stuttering does not have to either encumber their present or undermine their future.

December 15, 2021

Stuttering Was There, But I Didn’t Care

By this point in our relationship, dear reader, I think it’s safe to say you know I’m a superfan of the TV show Survivor.

Advice to Those Who Stutter

Book has put stuttering into perspective for decades

All The Right Words: My Journey as a Sportswriter Who Stutters

Ryan Cowley’s book showcases the message the Stuttering Foundation wants to diffuse to all people who stutter—your stuttering doesn't have to stand in the way of your dreams.

Supporting Children Who Stutter

A Panel Discussion

Silent Starlet of the Silver Screen

Marion Davies was an American actor who was a popular movie star in the 1920s and particularly admired for her comedic talents on stage and screen.

Q&A with Dr. John Moss

Dr. Moss is a Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician at the Mayo Clinic Florida. He sat down with the Stuttering Foundation to discuss his many life and career successes along his lifelong journey with stuttering.

Magazine Available Online

Find informative articles, the latest research in stuttering, interesting facts about famous people, letters and drawings from kids, and so much more in our latest edition.

New Resource Guide

Our 2022 Catalog has all of our latest resources.

Express Yourself or Go by Freight

Perhaps you too are searching for some way out of a morass of jumbled box cars and the maze of tracks that seem to lead only to empty, deadened spurs.

November 4, 2021

My Medical Records and Stuttering

Talking to others in both the medical community and the stuttering community, stuttering and how to interact with patients who stutter are rarely discussed.

What You Can Do to Help Yourself

Don’t overwhelm yourself. Tomorrow is another day.

Stuttering Foundation Marks International Stuttering Awareness Day with Updated Book for Pediatricians

6^th Edition of The Child Who Stutters:
To the Pediatrician Mailed to Pediatricians Nationwide

"It felt as though I had an angry tiger by the tail and dared not let go."

I deeply wish that I could reach every stutterer in the world to tell the story I am about to tell here.

Tool to Use with Clients Reading "Paperboy"

Chapter-by-chapter “Book Club Clinical Tool” explores every facet of the messages in the book Paperboy.

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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.

Bill Walton

From BillWalton.com

Thank you for your interest in my life long problem with my speech and communication skills. I was a very shy and reserved young man who could not speak at all without severely stuttering until I was 28 years old. Always a success in the classroom and on the basketball court, I took refuge in the things that I did well as a youngster. A straight A student, my athletic abilities covered the deficiencies that limited my overall growth and development. The game of basketball was my religion, the gym my church. It was a convenient way of avoiding my responsibilities of developing my human relation skills.

When I was 28, a chance encounter at a social event with Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty Glickman completely changed my life in so many ways that things have never been the same since, nor have they ever been better. That day, in a very brief, private conversation (one way, mind you, since I literally could not speak at the time) Marty explained, patiently and concisely, that talking, communicating was a skill not a gift or a birthright and that like any skill, whether it be sports, music, business or whatever, needed to be developed over a lifetime of hard work, discipline, organization and practice. Marty gave me some simple tips that day and then encouraged me to take those keys and apply them to methods of learning that I had received from the special teachers that I had come across in my life, particularly the 6 Hall of Fame basketball coaches that I had played for throughout my career. The beginning of my whole new life was as simple as that. No gimmicks, tricks or shortcuts. Just the realization that with some help, guidance and a lot of hard work that I too could do what seemed so easy, simple and natural to everyone else, yet seemed impossibly out of my reach and comprehension.

Bruce Willis

While the world knows Bruce Willis as an A-list actor, few know that he struggled with stuttering throughout his first 20 years.

Walter Bruce Willis was born in 1955 in West Germany to his German mother, Marlene, and his American GI father, David Willis. The family settled in David’s hometown of Penns Grove, New Jersey in 1957, and the couple has three other children.

Frank Wolf

This Virginian congressman has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1981. The longtime supporter of the Stuttering Foundation drew national attention to childhood stuttering in 2006 when he submitted an article about Tiger Woods from the SFA newsletter to the Congressional Record. The congressman is featured in the Stuttering Foundation's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.

Bill Withers

While Bill Withers has long been on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter, many people probably didn’t realize he stuttered. He passed away on March 30, 2020.

Born in 1938 in Slab Fork, W.V., Withers was the youngest of six children. When his father died when Withers was small, he was raised by his mother and grandmother, both of whom worked as domestics.