Summer Reading List

Here are a few suggestions for your child's summer reading list…

Younger readers

Trouble at Recess by Jaime

My Very Own: I Can Do It Storybook! Starring Me by Julie Raynor

Junior readers

Sometimes I Just Stutter by Eelco de Geus

The Girl Who Stutters by Mia J., Rebecca D., and Casey W.

Advanced reader

Self-Therapy for the Stutterer by Malcolm Fraser

Advice to Those Who Stutter by 28 therapists who stutter themselves

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 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.

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.

Summer Reading List

Kenyon Martin

Bill Withers

Byron Pitts

Carly Simon

Bruce Willis

Famous People Who Stutter