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International Stuttering Awareness Day 2024

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Palin Parent Child Interaction Therapy for Early Childhood Stuttering

Back to School: The Video Every Parent and Teacher Should See

Memphis, Tenn. (June 7, 2024) – As families and teachers prepare for the start of school, stuttering in the classroom, the lunchroom, and the playground remain challenging and problematic for many. Some five percent--one out of every 20 children--may experience stuttering for six months or more.

Assessment Core

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C. ASSESSMENT CORE:

Treatment Core

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D. TREATMENT CORE:

1. Treatment domains – Addressing:
a. Speech behaviors

Other Fluency Challenges and Stuttering Plus

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E. OTHER FLUENCY CHALLENGES AND STUTTERING PLUS

5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Stuttering

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Radio Public Service Announcements

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Back to School with “The ABCs of Stuttering“

Stuttering Foundation Offers Free Streaming Video for Teachers

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (July 11, 2023) — When teachers hear a child stutter, their immediate reaction is one of concern mixed with a host of urgent questions:

Proinsias De Rossa is a Prominent Politician in Ireland

Proinsias De Rossa may not be known to the world at large but he is one of the prominent politicians in Ireland in the last half century. His political career started in 1956 at age 16 when he joined the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and became politically active with the Sinn Fein party. He served seven months in prison at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin for his activities with the IRA. Afterwards he began a hardworking political career that saw him become the Leader of the Workers Party from 1988 to 1992.

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Emily Blunt

Actress Emily Blunt struggled with stuttering early in her life. A teacher encouraged her to act in a school play at age 12 despite her stuttering.

Blunt’s name is prominently featured on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter.

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.

Winston Churchill

Seeking to "remove Winston Churchill's stutter by second guessing the diagnosis" indicates neither a truthful retelling of history nor an informed opinion about a complex speech disorder, say experts in the field of speech-language pathology.

Recent news reports that quote Dr. John Mather, a Washington physician, as saying that Churchill's stutter "is a lie" brought adamant critical response from specialists in the field of stuttering and fluency disorders.

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.

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.