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Renowned Experts Lead 2-Day Conference

More than 70 people attended the Stuttering Foundation’s 2-day conference on May 16 and 17 at Montclair State University in Montclair, N.J.

Attendees came from Peru, Finland, Canada and several states, including Pennsylvania, New York, North Carolina, New Jersey, Washington, Minnesota, Florida, California, and Maryland.

Workshoppers Share the Love in Philly

Clinicians Travel from Around the Globe

The five-day Eastern Workshop, Using Cognitive Approaches with People Who Stutter, was held in Boston from June 16–20. Co-sponsored by the Stuttering Foundation and Boston University, this was the sixth year this course was offered, attracting clinicians worldwide to train with Elaine Kelman and Alison Nicholas of the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children.

It is alright to stutter!

An excerpt from Sometimes I Just Stutter

Overcoming Stuttering

By Arturo Lara

Stuttering Foundation President Joins Actor Colin Firth to Raise Money for Children Who Stutter

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Who can help you?

An excerpt from the book Sometimes I Just Stutter

Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson is a powerful and prolific American actor, who has achieved both critical and commercial acclaim for his roles in films such as Jungle Fever, Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction, the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Iron Man and Marvel’s The Avengers. In 2011, Jackson became the highest-grossing actor of all time. Jackson’s films are seen and loved by millions.

Wayne Brady

Wayne Brady has been making audiences laugh for years on shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and in live comedic performances. However, it took a while before people began to laugh with him.

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Darren Sproles

Darren Sproles, a former player for The Philadelphia Eagles, the New Orleans Saints and the San Diego Chargers, made history in 2007 when he became the first player in NFL history to return a kickoff and a punt for his first two NFL touchdowns in the same game. In 2021, he was selected to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

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.

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.

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.

Byron Pitts

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.