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Advice to Those Who Stutter by 28 therapists who stutter themselves.
Trouble at Recess by Jamie
Sometimes I Just Stutter by Eelco de Geus
Self-Therapy for the Stutterer by Malcolm Fraser
The Child Who Stutters: To the Pediatrician by Barry Guitar, Ph.D., and Edward G. Conture, Ph.D.
Stuttering: Straight Talk for Teachers
Stuttering: Its Nature and Management by Courtney Stromsta, Ph.D.
My Very Own: I can Do It Storybook! Starring Me by Julie Raynor
The Girl Who Stutters by Mia J., Rebecca D., and Casey W.
Pages 77-81 from Stuttering: Successes and Failures by Joseph Sheehan
The Stuttering Little Ballet Boy by Sohel Bagai

CELEBRITY FOCUS

John Stossel

John Stossel is one of the most recognized and articulate reporters today. However, he once considered giving up his broadcasting career because of his stuttering.

“Fear of stuttering can easily become worse than the stuttering itself,” observed Stossel. “The idea that I’m on television and making speeches is still a shock to me sometimes.”

Byron Pitts has brought much attention to stuttering with his memoir, Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life’s Challenges, released in September, 2009. The book not only details his speech difficulties, but also his illiteracy until age 12 and his unstable family life. Pitts overcame the odds to become the chief national correspondent with ABC News.

Lewis Carroll

The recent Disney version of Lewis Carroll’s classic, Alice in Wonderland, garnered a great deal of media hype. Even though the mainstream media has not made mention that Carroll was a person who stuttered, his family history gives credence to the discovery of the genetic link to stuttering. Carroll was born to parents who were first cousins; almost all of their eleven children, three girls and seven boys, struggled with stuttering past childhood.

Marilyn Monroe

From Edward S. Herrington's letter to Southcoasttoday.com

I am writing in response to "The importance of voice" (May 29), which mentioned that famous actor James Earl Jones struggled with stuttering. Another famous voice that you cited was the trademark breathy voice of Marilyn Monroe; however, you did not make mention of the fact that Marilyn Monroe also struggled with stuttering at various points in her life, sometimes very painfully.

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.