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February 1, 2023
Ellen Kelly Joins Stuttering Foundation as VP for Professional Development
Organization Expands Services, Outreach in 2023
January 30, 2023
Dr. Wallace Recommends Foundation to His Readers
"It's a new year, and therefore time for me to present my annual endorsement, recommendation and admiration of the Stuttering Foundation."
January 9, 2023
Stuttering Didn't Silence His Story
John Stossel knows news. He also knows what it's like to deal with a stuttering problem.
December 9, 2022
Celebrating 75 Years of Helping Those Who Stutter
Read our anniversary newsletter.
November 22, 2022
Looking for Answers? Ask The Stuttering Foundation!
We are now using YouTube as a forum to share responses to some of our most frequent, and even some infrequent questions.
November 18, 2022
2022 Eastern Workshop
Twenty-one therapists gathered from eight countries across the globe for a week of professional development under the tutelage of Elaine Kelman and Ali Berquez from the Michael Palin Centre in London.
November 15, 2022
Understanding Stuttering
What causes stuttering? Presumably, anyone who stutters has reflected on the reasons why he or she is a person who stutters.
November 15, 2022
Palin Parent Child Interaction Therapy For Early Childhood Stammering Course
This two-day course for speech-language pathologists will take place Jan. 4-5 via Zoom.
November 9, 2022
Dr. Klaas Bakker Receives Deso Weiss Award
Dr. Bakker was nominated by several leaders in the field of cluttering.
November 3, 2022
How Brain Research Sheds Light on the Cause of Stuttering
Neuroimaging research from the past 15 years supports stuttering’s classification as a neurodevelopmental disorder revealing subtle differences in the development of brain circuitry supporting speech in people who stutter.

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CELEBRITY FOCUS

King George

In November 2010, worldwide movie audiences were presented with a most interesting and unusual movie release with The King’s Speech, starring Colin Firth as King George VI and Helena Bonham Carter as his wife Elizabeth.

Unfortunately, history may have forgotten the courageous and inspiring story of Prince Albert who stuttered badly and never dreamed that he would ever be king when his older brother, King Edward VIII, abruptly abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.

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.

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.

Bob Love

Bob Love has dreamt about being a great public speaker since his early days in Bastrop Louisiana, even though, as a young man, he could barely put two words together, let alone speak a full sentence.

In spite of his severe stuttering disability, Bob Love, the son of a sharecropper, rose to become a Chicago Bulls NBA superstar, whose records were eventually surpassed by Michael Jordan. Throughout his entire athletic career, Bob Love kept his stuttering a secret from the fans who adored him, thinking he could do his “talking” on the basketball court.

Dave Taylor

Dave Taylor has been on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter for many years, but probably few people know all of the unique accomplishments of this former hockey great who was born on December 4, 1955, in Levack, Ontario.